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Publications, Volume 8, Issue 2

2020 June - 19 articles

Cover Story: Predatory journals are Open Access journals of highly questionable scientific quality. Such journals pretend to use peer review for quality assurance, and spam academics with requests for submissions, in order to collect author payments. In recent years predatory journals have received a lot of negative media. While much has been said about the harm that such journals cause to academic publishing in general, an overlooked aspect is how much articles in such journals are actually read and in particular cited, that is if they have any significant impact on the research in their fields. We studied citation statistics over a five-year period in Google Scholar for 250 random articles published in such journals in 2014 and found an average of 2.6 citations per article, and that 56% of the articles had no citations at all. View this paper
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Articles (19)

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
7,561 Views
13 Pages

Data Science Tools for Monitoring the Global Repository Eco-System and its Lines of Evolution

  • Friedrich Summann,
  • Andreas Czerniak,
  • Jochen Schirrwagen and
  • Dirk Pieper

The global network of scholarly repositories for the publication and dissemination of scientific publications and related materials can already look back on a history of more than twenty years. During this period, there have been many developments in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,534 Views
16 Pages

Quantifying the creative quality of scholarly work is a difficult challenge, and, unsurprisingly, empirical research in this area is scarce. This investigation builds on the theoretical distinction between impact (e.g., citation counts) and creative...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,359 Views
13 Pages

This article describes the development of the digital infrastructure at a research data centre for audio-visual linguistic research data, the Hamburg Centre for Language Corpora (HZSK) at the University of Hamburg in Germany, over the past ten years....

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,101 Views
16 Pages

The Internal Capability of Vietnam Social Sciences and Humanities: A Perspective from the 2008–2019 Dataset

  • Manh-Toan Ho,
  • Thu-Trang Vuong,
  • Thanh-Hang Pham,
  • Anh-Phuong Luong,
  • Thanh-Nhan Nguyen and
  • Quan-Hoang Vuong

International collaboration contributes significantly to improving scientific performance in Vietnam, but it also results in Vietnamese researchers depending on foreign partners to get their work published. The current study is an initial effort to e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,160 Views
11 Pages

Stewarding National User Groups to Strengthen Open Source Software Communities

  • Pascal-Nicolas Becker,
  • Michele Mennielli and
  • Katharina Trachte

Open Source Software (OSS) communities are often international, bringing together people from diverse regions with different linguistic and cultural backgrounds. National user groups can bolster these international communities by convening local even...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,840 Views
17 Pages

Incentives to Open Access: Perspectives of Health Science Researchers

  • Carmen López-Vergara,
  • Pilar Flores Asenjo and
  • Alfonso Rosa-García

Technological development has transformed academic publication over the past two decades and new publication models, especially Open Access, have captured an important part of the publishing market, traditionally dominated by the Subscription publica...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,715 Views
8 Pages

This article describes the design and development of an interoperable application that supports green open access with long-term sustainability and improved user experience of article deposit. The lack of library resources and the unfriendly reposito...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5,546 Views
15 Pages

The increase of visibility and transfer of scholar knowledge through digital environments have been followed by the author’s rights abuses such as plagiarism and fraud. For this reason, copyright is increasingly a topic of major importance sinc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,892 Views
8 Pages

This work presents a use case of building a data visualization interface for open-access repositories. The case in the analysis is the Brazilian Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (BDTD). From the almost 670,000 records of BDTD, one applies...

  • Case Report
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,732 Views
9 Pages

The Fast and the FRDR: Improving Metadata for Data Discovery in Canada

  • Clara Turp,
  • Lee Wilson,
  • Julienne Pascoe and
  • Alex Garnett

The Federated Research Data Repository (FRDR), developed through a partnership between the Canadian Association of Research Libraries’ Portage initiative and the Compute Canada Federation, improves research data discovery in Canada by providing...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,087 Views
14 Pages

The technology space of the University of Denver Libraries to manage digital collections and institutional resources isn’t relegated to one department on campus – rather, it distributed across a network of collaborators with the skills an...

  • Case Report
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,942 Views
10 Pages

Bridge2Hyku: Meeting Practitioners’ Needs in Digital Collection Migration to Open Source Samvera Repository

  • Annie Wu,
  • Santi Thompson,
  • Anne Washington,
  • Sean Watkins,
  • Andrew Weidner,
  • Dean Seeman and
  • Nicholas Woodward

The University of Houston Libraries, in partnership and consultation with numerous institutions, was awarded an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) National Leadership/Project Grant to create the Bridge2Hyku (B2H) Toolkit. Content migrati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
77 Citations
12,305 Views
17 Pages

FAIR Digital Objects for Science: From Data Pieces to Actionable Knowledge Units

  • Koenraad De Smedt,
  • Dimitris Koureas and
  • Peter Wittenburg

Data science is facing the following major challenges: (1) developing scalable cross-disciplinary capabilities, (2) dealing with the increasing data volumes and their inherent complexity, (3) building tools that help to build trust, (4) creating mech...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,298 Views
8 Pages

We present an information resource prototype that was developed by the FREYA project for the integration of a national e-thesis service and institutional repositories supported by a large national laboratory. The integration allows us to mutually enr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
8,020 Views
11 Pages

This article charts the development of Australia’s national edeposit service (NED), from concept to reality. A world-first collaboration between the national, state and territory libraries of Australia, NED was launched in 2019 and transformed...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,821 Views
10 Pages

Three Commonly Utilized Scholarly Databases and a Social Network Site Provide Different, But Related, Metrics of Pharmacy Faculty Publication

  • Kyle J. Burghardt,
  • Bradley H. Howlett,
  • Audrey S. Khoury,
  • Stephanie M. Fern and
  • Paul R. Burghardt

Scholarly productivity is a critical component of pharmacy faculty effort and is used for promotion and tenure decisions. Several databases are available to measure scholarly productivity; however, comparisons amongst these databases are lacking for...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
67 Citations
24,197 Views
12 Pages

How Frequently Are Articles in Predatory Open Access Journals Cited

  • Bo-Christer Björk,
  • Sari Kanto-Karvonen and
  • J. Tuomas Harviainen

Predatory journals are Open Access journals of highly questionable scientific quality. Such journals pretend to use peer review for quality assurance, and spam academics with requests for submissions, in order to collect author payments. In recent ye...

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