scholarly journals Chaos is in the eye of the beholder: Unravelling a quasi-criticism of the Serbian Citation Index

2021 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 1183-1213
Author(s):  
Pero Šipka
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Business Model ◽  
Financial Support ◽  
Citation Index ◽  
Basic Knowledge ◽  
Predatory Journals ◽  
Editorial Boards ◽  
History Of ◽  
Phd Thesis

The article is a response to criticism published by Rajko Bukvić in Ekonomski vidici in the paper 'On quality and visibility of social and economic sciences of Serbia', more precisely in the section entitled Scandals directed by CEON/CEES: Does chaos rule in our (economic) periodic publishing? In this section, the author directly accuses CEON/CEES for producing chaos in social sciences in Serbia by "excluding" many journals from its database called the Serbian Citation Index (SCIndeks). According to the author, CEON/CEES, after the termination of the financial support by the Serbian ministry responsible for science, blackmailed journal publishers by accepting for indexation only those willing to pay a fee for content maintenance. The author also claims that excluding three journals published by the Faculty of Organizational Sciences (FON), University of Belgrade, was illegal and scandalous. He adds to his allegations against SCIndeks several other unfounded, less important issues, supported by some serious unwarranted ethical accusations against its publisher. In this response, it is demonstrated that all accusations are fabricated and malicious. The alleged exclusion of formerly indexed journals was explained as a fully justified action of "non-inclusion" of journals unwilling to pay the necessary service fee after the forced transition of SCIndeks's business model from a government-sponsored to the journals-sponsored ("diamond open access", Ševkušić, Kosanović, & Šipka, 2020). Also, the suspension of the journals published by FON was a legitimate action aimed at protecting SCIndeks from a publisher who turned out to be untrustworthy, as demonstrated by the act of concealing the blatant plagiarism in the PhD thesis of the current Minister of Finance in the Serbian Government. The decision was reinforced by the discovery of a history of publishing in predatory journals by many members of the journals' editorial boards, the Dean's Collegium, and the Faculty Council. The author of the criticism is unmasked as lacking not only the basic knowledge on scientometrics, but also research and ethic integrity.

Methodological and Theoretical Orientation and the Long-Term Disciplinary Impact of 54 Eminent Psychologists

2000 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dean Keith Simonton
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Citation Index ◽  
Theoretical Orientation ◽  
General Factor ◽  
J Curve ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Static Versus Dynamic ◽  
Social Sciences Citation Index

The long-term influence of 54 highly eminent psychologists was hypothesized to be a function of their methodological and theoretical orientation. Individual differences in impact were gauged via the Social Sciences Citation Index for 1976–1980 and 1986–1990. Orientation was assessed along 6 dimensions: objectivistic versus subjectivistic, quantitative versus qualitative, elementaristic versus holistic, impersonal versus personal, static versus dynamic, and exogenist versus endogenist ( R. W. Coan, 1979 ). Correlation and regression analyses revealed that long-term influence could be predicted by both method and theory measures. Especially significant was the curvilinear backward-J curve between total citations and a general factor defined by all 6 bipolar dimensions. The most influential psychologists tend to take extreme positions on the controversies that have characterized the history of psychology.

scholarly journals Reducing open access publication costs for biomedical researchers in the U.S.A.

2021 ◽  
pp. 91-99
Author(s):  
Daniel Gorelick ◽  
Ye Li
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Business Model ◽  
Biomedical Research ◽  
Research Results ◽  
Article Processing Charge ◽  
Open Access Publication ◽  
Funding Agencies ◽  
History Of

Open Access (OA) publishing is a critical route for biomedical researchers to broadly disseminate their research results and comply with policies from funding agencies. A popular business model for OA publishing requires scientists to pay an article processing charge (APC). In the last two decades, APCs have risen well beyond inflation, posing a burden to scientists and funding agencies that often pay APCs on behalf of scientists. There are no policies in place that address the rising costs of APCs. Here, we examined the history of OA in biomedical research and analyzed the benefits and limitations of different OA policies and their effects on APCs.

scholarly journals Theory and Practice in OA-policies - How to implement Open Access: a funder perspective

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johannes Løvhaug ◽  
Rune Rambæk Schølberg
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Financial Support ◽  
Research Council ◽  
Joint Venture ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Funding Agency ◽  
Research Institutions ◽  
Humanities And Social Sciences

See video of the presentation.Theory and Practice in OA-policies: The Research Council of Norway is currently revising its policy on Open Access. At the same time the Council is looking at ways to support Norwegian journals within  humanities and social sciences in order to promote OA-publishing. As a funding agency, the Research Council is looking at ways to implement OA-policies. The key question is: How to move from principle  declarations on Open Access to practical tools for achieving OA-goals? Schjølberg and Løvhaug will present a model for financial support to OA-journals within humanities and social sciences as a joint venture between the Research Council and research institutions in Norway.

Scientific Soundness and the Problem of Predatory Journals

Pseudoscience ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Beall
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Peer Review ◽  
Business Model ◽  
Predatory Journals ◽  
Open Access Journals ◽  
Predatory Publishers

Predatory publishers and journals aim to make as much money as possible from researchers using the author-pays publishing model. Though most claim to manage a proper peer review, the practice of rejecting papers for publication is contrary to their business model of maximizing revenue through author fees. Accordingly, predatory publishers frequently accept and publish articles presenting pseudo-science dressed up as legitimate research. This chapter analyzes the increasing occurrence of pseudo-science being published in predatory open-access journals.

scholarly journals Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Stalin as highly cited researchers? Historical bibliometrics study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emanuel Kulczycki ◽  
Władysław Marek Kolasa ◽  
Krystian Szadkowski
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Communist Party ◽  
Socialist Country ◽  
Citation Index ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Scholarly Book ◽  
Main Research ◽  
History Of ◽  
Humanities And Social Sciences ◽  
Highly Cited

AbstractThe motivation for our research is the view, widespread among Polish scientists, that under the Communist Party’s rule it was always necessary to refer to Marx, Engels, Lenin or Stalin (we call them ‘classics’), especially in the highly-politicised fields like humanities and social sciences, in order for the work to pass the censorship procedures and be published. Therefore, in this paper, we aim to determine whether the 'classics' were commonly cited in a formally socialist country under the rule of the Communist Party (Polish Workers' Party/Polish United Workers’ Party). To address the main research question, we use the Citation Index of the History of Polish Media that covers all publications, whether scholarly articles or book publications, on the history of Polish media; in total, 6880 publications and 59,827 citations from the 1945‒2009 period. We found that citations of the works of the ‘classics’ (N = 296) constitute 0.49% of all citations in the database used and that the practice of citing the 'classics' was extremely rare (just 64 occurrences in the analysed sample). Our research also contributes to the development of reflection in historical bibliometrics and argues that bibliographical databases need to cover various types of publications, especially scholarly book publications, written in different languages (not only in English).

scholarly journals The millennial-messianistic movements in social sciences

2007 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 153-172
Author(s):  
József Gagyi
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Religious Movements ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
History Of ◽  
Religious Social Movements ◽  
General Aspects ◽  
Phd Thesis ◽  
Anthropological Literature

The study aims at presenting a brief overview of a particular field of research within religious social movements, namely the millennial-messianistic movements. The starting point is the overview of the Hungarian research regarding religion and religious movements. Researchers do not recognize the weight and the importance of the millennial phenomenon. There was no mental-conceptual apparatus in Hungarian for capturing the phenomenon. The Hungarian social research dealt with these religious movements in the context of other important fields (saints) of research, which goes along the millennial movement of 1949 in Satu Mare (Máréfalva), described in my PhD thesis.</p> <p>After presenting the brief history of the researched movements, I turn to the historical, sociological and anthropological literature of millennial movements, and I also present a few general aspects of social movements. Finally, I write about the importance of Victor Turner’s communitas-structure in the understanding of the researched phenomenon

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