2026 September - 24 articles
International indexing remains a significant challenge for university journals, particularly in low- and middle-income countries, where editorial teams often operate with limited institutional support. This study investigated whether meeting internat...
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has gained prominence in scholarly communication, yet its lexical classification, disciplinary diffusion, semantic organization, and association with citation-based recognition remain understudied. This stud...
Background: Plain-language summaries (PLSs) improve accessibility of medical research for patients but remain predominantly text-based. Large language models (LLMs) can now generate images from text. We carried out the present exploratory study to ev...
This paper proposes a novel ontology, called SciOnt, for representing scientometric indicators. Scientometrics is the field that studies the quantitative aspects of science and scientific phenomena. Scientometric indicators are used to evaluate scien...
To address the academic integrity challenges arising from artificial intelligence technologies, this study has systematically investigated the policies governing the use of artificial intelligence-generated content (AIGC) in academic writing, specifi...
In 2022, a coalition of 52 scholarly publishers representing more than 15,000 journals endorsed a standardised questionnaire on ethnic origins, ancestry, and race. This Opinion tests whether that questionnaire’s ancestry item follows the geogra...
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly employed in scholarly peer review, yet their suitability as autonomous evaluators remains uncertain. Using the ICLR 2025 review process, this study compares 2401 human reviews with 7203 reviews produced i...
COVID-19-related research redistributed citations toward pandemic topics, but the author-level contribution of this redistribution to individual h-index values remains insufficiently documented in lower-volume national research systems. This cross-se...
Large bibliographic databases require careful interpretation because publication trends and subject-area counts are shaped by database coverage, document-type selection, and classification practices. This study examines longitudinal changes in articl...
Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly transforming scholarly communication by changing how researchers discover, organize, evaluate, and communicate academic knowledge. Academic libraries are consequently expanding AI-supported research servic...
Contemporary scientific publishing plays an increasingly important role in the accessibility, circulation, and governance of scientific knowledge within the context of open science and growing demands for editorial transparency. Despite the expansion...
Artificial intelligence is reshaping scientific research, yet its contribution may be associated with whether methods are matched to the types of research problems. This study investigates this question in medical informatics using 40,107 articles pu...
This study analyzed the structural evolution of the Ecuadorian publishing ecosystem indexed in Scopus during the period 2016–2025 using indicators of scientific production, bibliometric impact, quartile positioning, citation concentration, edit...
Diamond Open Access journals face increasing challenges in ensuring metadata quality, interoperability, persistent identification, digital preservation, and international visibility while operating with limited financial and technological resources....
In a time where the methods of science are frequently called into question, open science practices are gaining increased importance. A particularly cooperative form of transparent science is the approach of adversarial collaboration (AC), where resea...
This article describes the design, development, and user acceptance evaluation of the Monitor CRIS UCSM, a research monitoring system (RMS) built on the Elsevier Pure REST API for the Universidad Católica de Santa María (UCSM), Arequipa...
This study investigates how YouTube content producers incorporate scientific evidence into their videos. The purpose is to understand which types of knowledge sources most influence science-related video production and how alternative communication c...
This paper proposes a level-based scientific maturation master plan (SMMP) for strengthening research projects prior to manuscript submission. A weak manuscript is often not simply a weak text but an immature project that has been translated too earl...
This study examines how different prompt anchoring strategies influence the conceptual representation of LLM-generated keywords and compares those effects with the effects of model selection. A controlled exploratory experiment evaluated four prompt...
Currently, the “Planning–Dissemination–Empowerment” approach has become a widely adopted practice paradigm for scientific journals to serve industrial scientific and technological innovation. Nevertheless, how to achieve the e...
Cross-level inference errors constitute a specific source of misleading scientific interpretation. They arise when the meaning assigned to a finding is transferred from one level of analysis to another without sufficient methodological justification....
Scientific output in health sciences has grown exponentially, yet its landscape remains under-analyzed in emerging economies. In Peru, Microbiology and Parasitology are disciplines of strategic relevance for public health, but no specific bibliometri...
Quartile rankings of journals have become shorthand for research quality in many national evaluation systems. This Commentary offers a non-systematic documentary analysis of this phenomenon in Spain and selected Latin American systems. It conceptuali...
This paper investigates how generative AI produces and propagates hallucinated academic references, focusing on the recurring non-existent citation “Education Governance and Datafication” attributed to Ben Williamson and Nelli Piattoeva....
