scholarly journals Ensuring Availability and Quality of Research Data through Open Access and Public Peer-Review

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Rasmussen
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Peer Review ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
Scientific Publication ◽  
Practical Experience ◽  
Open Access Journal ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Science Data ◽  
Data Repositories

The scientific and economic value of research data is enormous. In order to realize a successful subsequent usage, the scientific community needs efficient access to data. Thereby, the access has to be reliable and persistent. In addition, the quality of the data has to be proved following standardized work flows.One solution to these preconditions is to apply techniques of today’s scientific publishing to research data. Besides the access to the data sets through data repositories together with some metadata, the data should undergo a transparent peer-review using a publication platform.The presentation discusses two approaches. On the one hand, the data can be the basis for a research article and undergoes a review parallel to the review of the manuscript. The data is then a reviewed supplement to a scientific publication. On the other hand, the data itself can be the subject of a publication whose quality is then assured by peers.The presentation provides practical experience, especially with the latter strategy, realized through the open access journal Earth System Science Data (ESSD) with interactive public peer-review.

scholarly journals The status of Indonesian language journal (in Indonesian language)

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dasapta Erwin Irawan ◽  
Mochammad Tanzil Multazam ◽  
Juneman Abraham ◽  
Sparisoma Viridi
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Full Text ◽  
Scientific Publication ◽  
Open Access Journal ◽  
Western World ◽  
Lingua Franca ◽  
Quality Mark ◽  
Text Language ◽  
Bahasa Indonesia

AbstrakBanyak pihak masih meragukan kualitas jurnal Indonesia. Salah satu ukuran kualitas jurnal adalah dengan terindeks di DOAJ. Kualitas jurnal bukan semata ditentukan oleh artikel yang dimuat, tetapi juga pengelolaannya. Oleh karena itu, penting kiranya mengetahui dan mendeskripsikan kualitas jurnal Indonesia, baik dari segi artikel maupun pengelolaan. Data diperoleh melalui pengamatan berupa jurnal open access (OA) berbahasa Indonesia yang dihimpun oleh DOAJ. Data diambil tanggal 11 Maret 2017 dengan menggunakan filter, meliputi: 1) Search type: Journal, 2) Country of publisher: Indonesia, dan 3) Full text language: Indonesia. Berdasarkan data tersebut, Indonesia memiliki 500 jurnal yang terindeks DOAJ. Sebagian besar atau 420 diantaranya menggunakan bahasa Indonesia. Tiga bidang terbanyak yang dimuat, meliputi: pendidikan (education in general), agama Islam, dan bisnis atau perdagangan (business and commerce). Jumlah artikelnya pun cukup besar (lebih dari 51.000), atau peringkat no 7 berdasarkan jenis bahasa. Melihat fenomena ini, dapat dikatakan bahwa jurnal Indonesia adalah kekuatan baru dalam dunia saintifik dengan jumlah jurnal yang masif. Terindeks DOAJ adalah salah satu langkah awal, tapi kualitas harus tetap ditingkatkan secara kontinyu. Dominasi Bahasa Inggris sebagai lingua franca  dalam ilmu pengetahuan jangan jadi kendala. Fakta-fakta di atas mestinya dapat menjadi bahan untuk menumbuhkan kesadaran kolektif di antara akademia dari negara yang tidak bercakap dalam Bahasa Inggris, khususnya negara ASEAN, untuk berdiri setara dengan koleganya dari belahan dunia barat.P enggunaan bahasa Indonesia memudahkan penulis dalam mengekspresikan pemikiran secara lebih jelas dan rinci. Hal ini juga diharapkan dapat mengurangi jumlah publikasi dalam jurnal yang meragukan, hanya dengan alasan bahwa jurnal tersebut mampu menerbit makalah dalam waktu yang cepat. Pengelola jurnal juga tidak perlu risau dengan indeksasi SCOPUS. Namun demikian, Pemerintah hendaklah tetap harus memberi perhatian lebih pada pengelolaan jurnal di Indonesia dengan menerbitkan berbagai aturan yang lebih inklusif dan mengurangi peran indeks komersial.AbstractThe quality of Indonesian journal are still questioned by many authors, including Indonesian authors. One of the quality mark for an open access  journal is included in DOAJ indexing. However, the quality of a journal is based not only on the quality of the articles but also the management. Therefore it is very important to describe the quality of Indonesian journals, in terms of both aspects. This paper is considered as the first attempt to uncover the facts behind Indonesian journals. The data is gathered from DOAJ database using the following filters: 1) Search type: Journal, 2) Country of publisher: Indonesia, dan 3) Full text language: Indonesia. Based on the data, we manage to get 500 Indonesia journals with 420 (84%) of them are in Indonesian language (data acquired in 24-27 March 2017). The top 3 fields are education, Islam education, and business and commerce.  The sum of articles have reached more than 51,000 (1984-2017), 7th place, in top 10 rank based on language. Here we could see that Indonesia journal is a new massive new force in scientific publication. DOAJ indexing is just a start, but efforts to increase the quality of articles and governance are still way ahead. Sustainable quality improvement is the most important thing. The use of English as lingua franca in science should not be dealt as a burden. Accordingly the mentioned facts have to be used to raise awareness of academia from non English speaking countries, especially the ones in ASEAN area, to stand equally with their colleagues from western world. In fact writing in native language should help Indonesian scientist to express their ideas more clearly and precisely. Also, journal managers should also not be intimidated with commercial indexing (eg: Scopus, WoS). With this dynamic scientific movement, commercial indexing will not be used as the main indicator for quality. Moreoever, Indonesian government should also the growth of Indonesian journals by releasing more inclusive regulations and reducing the role of commercial indexing. Kata Kunci: DOAJ, ilmiah, Indonesia, jurnal, publikasi

scholarly journals Challenges for the Academic Editor in the Scientific Publication

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 12
Author(s):  
Sandro Serpa ◽  
Maria José Sá ◽  
Ana Isabel Santos ◽  
Carlos Miguel Ferreira
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Peer Review ◽  
Digital Publishing ◽  
Scientific Publication ◽  
Scientific Quality ◽  
Scientific Publications

The academic editor has been, and still is, the gatekeeper of peer-reviewed scientific publications, by being whom, ultimately, defines whether or not a manuscript can be published. At a time of profound transformation in the context of scientific publication (digital publishing, open access, preprint, open peer review,...) and the expectations, inside and outside academia, towards academic publication, this perspective paper aims to add to the discussion of the (re)formulation of the academic editor’s role, considering that he or she, in this panoply of changes, continues, and will continue to be, the ultimate guardian of the scientific quality of what is published.

scholarly journals The Quality of Statistical Reporting and Data Presentation in Predatory Dental Journals Was Lower Than in Non-Predatory Journals

Entropy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 468
Author(s):  
Pentti Nieminen ◽  
Sergio E. Uribe
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Peer Review ◽  
Scientific Journals ◽  
Mean Values ◽  
Data Presentation ◽  
Predatory Journals ◽  
Study Results ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Highly Cited

Proper peer review and quality of published articles are often regarded as signs of reliable scientific journals. The aim of this study was to compare whether the quality of statistical reporting and data presentation differs among articles published in ‘predatory dental journals’ and in other dental journals. We evaluated 50 articles published in ‘predatory open access (OA) journals’ and 100 clinical trials published in legitimate dental journals between 2019 and 2020. The quality of statistical reporting and data presentation of each paper was assessed on a scale from 0 (poor) to 10 (high). The mean (SD) quality score of the statistical reporting and data presentation was 2.5 (1.4) for the predatory OA journals, 4.8 (1.8) for the legitimate OA journals, and 5.6 (1.8) for the more visible dental journals. The mean values differed significantly (p < 0.001). The quality of statistical reporting of clinical studies published in predatory journals was found to be lower than in open access and highly cited journals. This difference in quality is a wake-up call to consume study results critically. Poor statistical reporting indicates wider general lower quality in publications where the authors and journals are less likely to be critiqued by peer review.

scholarly journals Incentives to Open Access: Perspectives of Health Science Researchers

Publications ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 29
Author(s):  
Carmen López-Vergara ◽  
Pilar Flores Asenjo ◽  
Alfonso Rosa-García
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Scientific Publication ◽  
Economic Incentive ◽  
Health Sciences ◽  
Open Access Journal ◽  
Health Science ◽  
Open Access Publication ◽  
Open Access Journals ◽  
The Impact

Technological development has transformed academic publication over the past two decades and new publication models, especially Open Access, have captured an important part of the publishing market, traditionally dominated by the Subscription publication model. Although Health Sciences have been one of the leading fields promoting Open Access, the perspectives of Health Science researchers on the benefits and possibilities of Open Access remain an open question. The present study sought to unveil the perspective of researchers on scientific publication decisions, in terms of the Subscription and Open Access publication model, Gold Road. With this aim, we surveyed Spanish researchers in Health Sciences. Our findings show that the value of publishing in Open Access journals increases as the experience of the researcher increases and the less she/he values the impact factor. Moreover, visibility and dissemination of the results are the main determinants of publication when choosing an Open Access journal as the first option. According to the response of the researchers, the reduction of fees and the increase in financing are important economic incentive measures to promote the Open Access publication model. It is widely accepted that the volume of Open Access publications will increase in the future.

scholarly journals Reforming Science Publishing

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Khaled Moustafa
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Peer Review ◽  
Scientific Community ◽  
Review Process ◽  
Publishing Industry ◽  
Peer Review Process ◽  
Open Access Journal ◽  
The Past ◽  
Open Access Journals

Over the past few years, different changes have been introduced into the science publishing industry. However, important reforms are still required at both the content and form levels. First, the peer review process needs to be open, fair and transparent. Second, author-paid fees in open access journals need to either be removed or reconsidered toward more affordability. Third, the categorization of papers should include all types of scientific contributions that can be of higher interest to the scientific community than many mere quantitative and observable measures, or simply removed from publications. Forth, word counts and reference numbers in online open access journal should be nuanced or replaced by recommended ranges rather than to be a proxy of acceptance or rejection. Finally, all the coauthors of a manuscript should be considered corresponding authors and responsible for their mutual manuscript rather than only one or two.

A study of Open Access research data repositories developed by BRICS countries

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Safat Mushtaq Misgar ◽  
Ajra Bhat ◽  
Zahid Ashraf Wani
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Emerging Economies ◽  
Research Policy ◽  
Research Output ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Data Repository ◽  
Research Activity ◽  
Data Repositories ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Subject Coverage

Purpose In the present era, research data is a concern for researchers, as they are trying to find new ways to communicate their research findings and conclusions to other researchers in order to increase visibility and credibility. BRICS nations are fast emerging economies and contribute significantly in research output. This study makes an effort to analyze and explore the role of BRICS nations towards open access research data repository registered with Registry of Research Data Repositories. Design/methodology/approach The data were gathered from re3data repository, and the search was limited to BRICS nations. The data were further analyzed and tabulated as per set parameters, namely, country-wise distribution, types of contents, subject coverage and language diversity. Findings The findings depict that in terms of strength, India has the highest number of data repositories, thereby achieved the first rank among BRICS nations, and South Africa has the least number of data repositories, whereas in terms of content type and subject coverage, India again is leading among BRICS nations. The English language is used by repositories as the main language of the interface. Practical implications The study helps to understand the development of research data repositories by BRICS nations. The study is further beneficial to researchers, as Registry of Research Data Repository provides a single platform to access repositories from various disciplines. Readily available data saves time, money and efforts of researchers and helps the researcher in completing their research activity in a very short span of time. Originality/value The paper has investigated open access data repositories of BRICS nation that has not been attempted earlier. This gives readers comprehensive overview of research data repositories developed in fast emerging economies of the global. The paper can be very helpful for information managers, OA promoters and education and research policy makers to devise plans and policy bearing in mind the evolving research channels in emerging economies.

scholarly journals Upaya Pustakawan dalam Peningkatan Kualitas Jurnal dan Mendukung Gerakan Open Access Journal di Indonesia

Pustakaloka ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Seno Yudhanto ◽  
Wahid Nashihuddin
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Open Access Journal ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Policy Statement ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Data Assessment

ABSTRAKTujuan makalah ini untuk: (1) memberikan informasi hasil preview kebijakan OAJ, khususnya jurnal bidang ilmu perpustakaan dan informasi yang terbit secara online; dan (2) mengetahui berbagai upaya yang dapat dilakukan pustakawan dalam peningkatan kualitas jurnal dan mendukung gerakan OAJ di Indonesia. Metode kajian menggunakan studi literatur dan penelusuran jurnal di Portal Garuda – IPI. Data kajian dijabarkan secara deskriptif. Hasil kajian menunjukkan bahwa: (1) jurnal bidang ilmu perpustakaan dan informasi yang terbit secara online di Indonesia sebagian besar belum menginformasikan pernyataan kebijakan OAJ secara jelas dan lengkap di situs jurnal; dan (2) diperlukan peran aktif pustakawan dalam upaya peningkatan kualitas jurnal dan mendukung gerakan OAJ di Indonesia, khususnya jurnal bidang ilmu perpustakaan dan informasi.ABSTRACTThe purpose of this paper is: (1) to provide information about OAJ policy preview results, especially the journal of library and information science in Indonesia which is published online and (2) to know the various ways from librarians in improving journal quality and support OAJ movement in Indonesia. The study methods use literature study and journal tracking at Portal Garuda - IPI. The data assessment were reported descriptively. The results of the study show that (1) the journal of library and information science published online in Indonesia has not informed the OAJ policy statement on the journal website; and (2) need the active role of librarians in efforts to improve the quality of journals and support OAJ in Indonesia, especially in the field of library and information science.

scholarly journals Do Fences Reduce Fear of Crime

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (10) ◽  
pp. 41
Author(s):  
Siti Rasidah Md Sakip ◽  
Norhafizah Abdul Rahman ◽  
Nadiyanti Mat Nayan
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Peer Review ◽  
Fear Of Crime ◽  
Publishing House ◽  
Residential Areas ◽  
International Publishing ◽  
Perceptions Of Crime ◽  
Open Access Article

The Roadmap of Government Transformation Program 2010 reported that the sense of fear of crime among Malaysians is quite high which is 89 percent. So, the questions is, do they feel safe without fence? Therefore, this paper seeks on the neighborhood with no fence to identify the sense of safety and fear of crime (FOC) among residents. The result indicates that longer resident living in residential areas is significant with perceptions of crime (POC) in the neighborhood (p = 0.00). The more people go out at night is also significant with POC in the neighborhood (p = 0.012). Keywords: Crime; quality of life; fear of crime; sense of safetyeISSN 2398-4279 © 2018. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia.

scholarly journals Neuroscience publishing is too important to leave to publishers

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. ed1
Author(s):  
Shaun Yon-Seng Khoo
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Data Quality ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Open Access Journal ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Quality Checks

Almost every open access neuroscience journal is pay-to-publish. This leaves neuroscientists with a choice of submitting to journals that not all of our colleagues can legitimately access and choosing to pay large sums of money to publish open access. Neuroanatomy and Behaviour is a new platinum open access journal published by a non-profit association of scientists. Since we do not charge fees, we will focus entirely on the quality of submitted articles and encourage the adoption of reproducibility-enhancing practices, like open data, preregistration, and data quality checks. We hope that our colleagues will join us in this endeavour so that we can support good neuroscience no matter where it comes from.

scholarly journals Análisis de los principios para la descripción de datos de investigación mediante Datacite Metadata Schema

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eder Ávila-Barrientos
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Data Access ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Data Repositories ◽  
Metadata Schema ◽  
Acceso Abierto ◽  
Methodological Principles ◽  
Access Policies

El objetivo de este trabajo consiste en analizar los principios teórico-metodológicos relacionados con la descripción de los datos de investigación. Se realizó un análisis sobre el estado de la cuestión de los datos de investigación, en cual se abordan aspectos de su citación, descripción y sistematización. Se identificaron y analizaron los elementos de metadatos para la descripción de conjuntos de datos de investigación que se incluyen en el DataCite Metadata Schema, con el propósito de crear una propuesta de perfil descriptivo aplicable a estos conjuntos. Se estima que, si los datos de investigación se encuentran debidamente descritos, entonces se fomentará en mayor grado su accesibilidad y reutilización. Para ello, es necesario que las instituciones académicas y de investigación participen en la generación de políticas de acceso abierto a sus datos de investigación. The objective of this work is to analyze the theoretical-methodological principles related to the description and accessibility of research data. Hermeneutics and discourse analysis were applied to literature specialized in: research data; access and description of research data; data repositories. Metadata elements for the description of research datasets that are included in the DataCite Metadata Schema were identified and analyzed, in order to create a descriptive profile proposal for research data sets, which can be applied in the data repositories. If the research data is properly described, then its accessibility and reuse will be further promoted. To do this, it is necessary for academic and research institutions to participate in the generation of open access policies for their research data.

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