Ten Hot Topics around Scholarly Publishing
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Ten Hot Topics to Address
2.1. Topic 1: Will preprints get your research ‘scooped’?
2.2. Topic 2: Do the Journal Impact Factor and journal brand measure the quality of authors and their research?
2.3. Topic 3: Does approval by peer review prove that you can trust a research paper, its data and the reported conclusions?
2.4. Topic 4: Will the quality of the scientific literature suffer without journal-imposed peer review?
2.5. Topic 5: Is Open Access responsible for creating predatory publishers?
2.6. Topic 6: Is copyright transfer required to publish and protect authors?
2.7. Topic 7: Does gold Open Access have to cost a lot of money for authors, and is it synonymous with the APC business model?
2.8. Topic 8: Are embargo periods on ‘green’ OA needed to sustain publishers?
2.9. Topic 9: Are Web of Science and Scopus global platforms of knowledge?
2.10. Topic 10: Do publishers add value to the scholarly communication process?
3. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
Glossary
Altmetrics | Altmetrics are metrics and qualitative data that are complementary to traditional, citation-based metrics. |
Article-Processing Charge (APC) | An APC is a fee which is sometimes charged to authors to make a work available Open Access in either a fully OA journal or hybrid journal. |
Gold Open Access | Immediate access to an article at the point of journal publication. |
Green Open Access | Where an author self-archives a copy of their article in a freely accessible subject-specific, universal, or institutional repository. |
Directory for Open Access Journals (DOAJ) | An online directory that indexes and provides access to quality Open Access, peer-reviewed journals. |
Journal Impact Factor (JIF) | A measure of the yearly average number of citations to recent articles published in a particular journal. |
Postprint | Version of a research paper subsequent to peer review (and acceptance), but before any type-setting or copy-editing by the publisher. Also sometimes called a ‘peer reviewed accepted manuscript’. |
Preprint | Version of a research paper, typically prior to peer review and publication in a journal. |
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Tennant, J.P.; Crane, H.; Crick, T.; Davila, J.; Enkhbayar, A.; Havemann, J.; Kramer, B.; Martin, R.; Masuzzo, P.; Nobes, A.; Rice, C.; Rivera-López, B.; Ross-Hellauer, T.; Sattler, S.; Thacker, P.D.; Vanholsbeeck, M. Ten Hot Topics around Scholarly Publishing. Publications 2019, 7, 34. https://doi.org/10.3390/publications7020034
Tennant JP, Crane H, Crick T, Davila J, Enkhbayar A, Havemann J, Kramer B, Martin R, Masuzzo P, Nobes A, Rice C, Rivera-López B, Ross-Hellauer T, Sattler S, Thacker PD, Vanholsbeeck M. Ten Hot Topics around Scholarly Publishing. Publications. 2019; 7(2):34. https://doi.org/10.3390/publications7020034
Chicago/Turabian StyleTennant, Jonathan P., Harry Crane, Tom Crick, Jacinto Davila, Asura Enkhbayar, Johanna Havemann, Bianca Kramer, Ryan Martin, Paola Masuzzo, Andy Nobes, Curt Rice, Bárbara Rivera-López, Tony Ross-Hellauer, Susanne Sattler, Paul D. Thacker, and Marc Vanholsbeeck. 2019. "Ten Hot Topics around Scholarly Publishing" Publications 7, no. 2: 34. https://doi.org/10.3390/publications7020034