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Publications, Volume 8, Issue 1

March 2020 - 16 articles

Cover Story: Does the rise of open access journals change the way researchers collaborate? Specifically, does income affect how researchers form international collaborations? To answer this question, we create a new data set by scraping bibliographic data from Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) journals. We find that researchers from low-income nations are more likely to form international collaborations than researchers from wealthier nations. In particular, we find that the USA, China, Germany, and France are the most preferred nations for forming international collaborations with. This trend holds across disciplines and is consistent with what has been observed in non-open access journals. View this paper.
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Articles (16)

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,237 Views
17 Pages

Reviewing Research Trends—A Scientometric Approach Using Gunshot Residue (GSR) Literature as an Example

  • Catarina Sobreira,
  • Joyce K. Klu,
  • Christian Cole,
  • Niamh Nic Daéid and
  • Hervé Ménard

The ability to manage, distil and disseminate the significant amount of information that is available from published literature is fast becoming a core and critical skill across all research domains, including that of forensic science. In this study,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
11,046 Views
9 Pages

The current peer review system is under stress from ever increasing numbers of publications, the proliferation of open-access journals and an apparent difficulty in obtaining high-quality reviews in due time. At its core, this issue may be caused by...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
11,203 Views
14 Pages

This paper addresses the topic of the article processing charges (APCs) that are paid when publishing articles using the open access (OA) option. Building on the Elsevier OA price list, company balance sheet figures, and ScienceDirect data, tentative...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,556 Views
11 Pages

In recent years, Open Access and interdisciplinarity have emerged as two prevalent trends in academia. Although seemingly separate pursuits with separate literature, goals, and advocates, there are significant interconnections between these two movem...

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