From: Diane French <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2019 12:02:42 +0000

*Apologies for cross posting*

The July issue of *Learned Publishing* is now online

Early career researchers - what have they done for us? The July issue opens
with an editorial asking why ECRs have not proved to be the harbingers of
change as anticipated, and asks if Plan S (with other sociocultural and
technological changes) will be the trigger that changes their habits. The
editorial was prompted by several aricles in the July issue - see if you
agree with my conclusions!

The issue also includes problems with data citation, OA publishing in
Nordic countries, skewed citations, identification frameworks for
questionable journals and linguistic differences between high and low
quality journals.

A wide range of topics as usual – hopefully something to tempt everyone.
*Here are just a few of the articles in the July issue of **Learned
Publishing**...*

   - How Research Data is Cited in Scholarly Literature? A Case Study of
   HINTS, reveals how badly data is cited in published articles and exposes
   the chasm between making data open and properly linking it to published
   articles – a fascinating read.
   - Journals Removed from DOAJ Appearing Within SCImago’s Ranks: A Study
   of Excluded Journals raises questions about inclusion criteria and should
   make everyone question the trust we place on the various indexes.
   - So, are early career researchers the harbingers of change? Presents a
   summary of the Harbingers project and looks at the changes observed during
   the study
   - On the skewness of journal self-citations and publisher self-citations
   investigates the self-citations within a single journal and a publisher and
   asks the question of what is normal, and what is unethical.

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Pippa Smart,
Editor in Chief, *Learned Publishing*

*Learned Publishing* Volume 32 No 3 July 2019 *www.learned-publishing.org*
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