Numerous national research assessment policies set the goal of promoting "excellence" and incentivise scholars to publish their research in the most prestigious journals or with the most prestigious book publishers. We investigate the practicalities of the assessment of book outputs based on the prestige of book publishers (Denmark, Finland, Flanders, Lithuania, Norway). Additionally, we test whether such judgments are transparent and yield consistent results. We show inconsistencies in the levelling of publishers, such as the same publisher being ranked as prestigious and not-so-prestigious in different states or in consequent years within the same country. Likewise, we find that verification of compliance with the mandatory prerequisites is not always possible because of the lack of transparency. Our findings support doubts about whether the assessment of books based on a judgement about their publisher yields acceptable outcomes. Currently used rankings of publishers focus on evaluating the gatekeeping role of publishers but do not assess other essential stages in scholarly book publishing. Our suggestion for future research is to develop approaches to evaluate books by accounting for the value added to every book at every publishing stage, which is vital for the quality of book outputs from research assessment and scholarly communication perspectives.
Citation analysis does not generally take the quality of citations into account: all citations are weighted equally irrespective of source. However, a scholar may be highly cited but not highly regarded: popularity and prestige are not identical measures of esteem. In this study we define popularity as the number of times an author is cited and prestige as the number of times an author is cited by highly cited papers. Information Retrieval (IR) is the test field. We compare the 40 leading researchers in terms of their popularity and prestige over time. Some authors are ranked high on prestige …
Despite having an important role supporting assessment processes, criticism towards evaluation systems and the categorizations used are frequent. Considering the acceptance by the scientific community as an essential issue for using rankings or categorizations in research evaluation, the aim of this paper is testing the results of rankings of scholarly book publishers' prestige, Scholarly Publishers Indicators (SPI hereafter). SPI is a public, survey-based ranking of scholarly publishers' prestige (among other indicators). The latest version of the ranking (2014) was based on an expert consult…
The conversion of scholarly journals to digital format is proceeding rapidly, especially for those from large commercial and learned society publishers. This conversion offers the best hope for survival for such publishers. The infamous "journal crisis" is more of a library cost crisis than a publisher pricing problem, with internal library costs much higher than the amount spent on purchasing books and journals. Therefore publishers may be able to retain or even increase their revenues and profits, while at the same time providing a superior service. To do this, they will have to take over ma…
A dataset of article processing charges from 14 scholarly publishers, 2019-2025
Berlin School of Library and Information Science, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin（柏林图书馆与信息科学学院，柏林洪堡大学）；Scholarly Communications Lab（学术交流实验室）；University Library, Iowa State University（爱荷华州立大学图书馆）；Simon Fraser University（西蒙菲莎大学）；School of Information Studies, University of Ottawa（渥太华大学信息研究学院）；University of Ottawa Library（渥太华大学图书馆）；University Library, Bielefeld University（比勒费尔德大学图书馆）
Digital advancement in scholarly repositories has led to the emergence of a large number of open access predatory publishers that charge high article processing fees from authors but fail to provide necessary editorial and publishing services. Identifying and blacklisting such publishers has remained a research challenge due to the highly volatile scholarly publishing ecosystem. This paper presents a data-driven approach to study how potential predatory publishers are evolving and bypassing several regularity constraints. We empirically show the close resemblance of predatory publishers agains…
While the business models used in most segments of the media industry have been profoundly changed by the Internet surprisingly little has been changed in the publishing of scholarly peer reviewed journals. Electronic delivery has become the norm, but the same publishers as before are dominating the market, selling content to subscribers. This article asks the question why Open Access (OA) to the output of mainly publicly funded research hasn't yet become the mainstream business model. OA implies a reversal of business logic from readers paying for content to authors paying fro dissemination v…
Over the past 10 years stakeholders across the scholarly communications community have invested significantly not only to increase the adoption of ORCID adoption by researchers, but also to build the the broader infrastructures that are needed both to support ORCID and to benefit from it. These parallel efforts have fostered the emergence of "research information citizenry", which comprises, but is not limited to, researchers, publishers, funders, and institutions. This paper takes a scientometric approach to investigating how effectively ORCID roles and responsibilities within this citizenry …
Stakeholders in research and scientific publishing are gradually joining the Open-Access (OA) movement, which is gaining momentum to become nowadays at the heart of scientific policies in high-income countries. The rise of OA generates profound changes in the chain of production and dissemination of knowledge. Free access to peer-reviewed research methods and results has contributed to the dynamics of science observed in recent years. The modes of publication and access have also evolved; the classic model, based on journal subscriptions is gradually giving way to new economic models that have…
Visualization of the massive data is a challenging endeavor. Extracting data and providing graphical representations can aid in its effective utilization in terms of interpretation and knowledge discovery. Publishing research articles has become a way of life for academicians. The scholarly publications can shape-up the professional growth of authors and also expand the research and technological growth of a country, continent and other demographic regions. Scholarly articles have grown in gigantic numbers that are published in different domains by various journals. Information related to arti…
The trend toward open science increases the pressure on authors to provide access to the source code and data they used to compute the results reported in their scientific papers. Since sharing materials reproducibly is challenging, several projects have developed solutions to support the release of executable analyses alongside articles. We reviewed 11 applications that can assist researchers in adhering to reproducibility principles. The applications were found through a literature search and interactions with the reproducible research community. An application was included in our analysis i…
Introduction. High subscription fees to scholarly research journals provoke researchers to use illegal channels of access to scientific information. Analysis of statistical data on downloads of scholarly research papers by Ukrainian Internet users from illegal web resource can help to define gaps in information provision at the institutional or the state level for each scientific field. Problem Statement. To conduct an analysis of behavior and geography of downloads of scholarly research publications from illegal web resource Sci-Hub by Ukrainian Internet users within the period from September…
At this time, developers of research information systems are experimenting with new tools for research outputs usage that can expand the open access to research. These tools allow researchers to record research as annotations, nanopublications or other micro research outputs and link them by scientific relationships. If these micro outputs and relationships are shared by their creators publicly, these actions can initiate direct scholarly communication between the creators and the authors of the used research outputs. Such direct communication takes place while researchers are manipulating and…
Comparison of Feature Learning Methods for Metadata Extraction from PDF Scholarly Documents
Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology FIT（弗劳恩霍夫应用信息技术研究所FIT）；University Hospital of Cologne（科隆大学医院）；University of Koblenz（科布伦茨大学）；Soochow University（苏州大学）
In scholarly publishing, blacklists aim to register fraudulent or deceptive journals and publishers, also known as "predatory", to minimise the spread of unreliable research and the growing of fake publishing outlets. However, blacklisting remains a very controversial activity for several reasons: there is no consensus regarding the criteria used to determine fraudulent journals, the criteria used may not always be transparent or relevant, and blacklists are rarely updated regularly. Cabell's paywalled blacklist service attempts to overcome some of these issues in reviewing fraudulent journals…
Universities and research centers in Spain are subject to a national open access (OA) mandate and to their own OA institutional policies, if any, but compliance with these requirements has not been fully monitored yet. We studied the degree of OA archiving of publications of 28 universities within the period 2012-2014. Of these, 12 have an institutional OA mandate, 9 do not require but request or encourage OA of scholarly outputs, and 7 do not have a formal OA statement but are well known for their support of the OA movement. The potential OA rate was calculated according to the publisher open…
University of California, San Diego（加州大学圣地亚哥分校）；University of Toronto（多伦多大学）；Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Toronto（多伦多大学邓普尔天文与天体物理研究所）；University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign（伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校）；FAIR Data Innovations Hub, California Medical Innovations Institute（公平数据创新中心，加州医疗创新研究所）；National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign（美国国家超级计算应用中心，伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校）；SciOS；University of California Berkeley（加州大学伯克利分校）；Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian（哈佛&史密森尼天体物理中心）；Astrophysics Source Code Library | University of Maryland College Park（天体物理学源代码库，马里兰大学帕克分校）；Universität Heidelberg, Zentrum für Astronomie (ZAH), Institut für Theoretische Astrophysik（海德堡大学，天文学中心（ZAH），理论天体物理研究所）；Institute for Cyber-Enabled Research, Michigan State University（密歇根州立大学网络使能研究所）；The US Research Software Engineer Association（美国研究软件工程师协会）；San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California, San Diego（加州大学圣地亚哥分校圣地亚哥超级计算中心）；Center for Computational Astrophysics, Flatiron Institute（平顿研究所计算天体物理中心）
