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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Editor in Chief, Learned Publishing
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