(22 May 2020) Nature Index reviewed recent development on scholarly communication affected by the epidemic of COVID-19, including: Funding worries weigh down early-career researchers COVID-19 widens the gender gap in medical research Wikipedia favours peer-reviewed research Australian researchers face job cuts due to coronavirus shut-down How could coronavirus change academic careers? Preprint servers enhance screening…
By Ruth A. Pagell* (20 May 2020) Journal quality has been measured by output, from counting pages and articles to calculating normalized citation impact factors. The Center for Open Science (COS) created TOP Factor as a way to measure journal quality through journal publishing guidelines. There are four aspects of TOP Factor to consider: The…
(24 Mar 2020) Love it or hate it, the H-index has become one of the most widely used metrics in academia for measuring the productivity and impact of researchers. But when Jorge Hirsch proposed it as an objective measure of scientific achievement in 2005, he didn’t think it would be used outside theoretical physics. “I wasn’t even…
(13 May 2020) The nature and extent of predatory publishing is highly contested. Whilst debates have often focused defining journals and publishers as either predatory or not predatory. Kyle Siler argues that predatory publishing encompasses a spectrum of activities and that by understanding this ambiguity, we can better understand and make value judgements over where legitimacy…
(11 May 2020) From Scholarly Kitchen: In February, the Chinese government released two documents that set forth important changes in policies governing science research evaluation. One of the most eye-catching changes is the requirement for researchers to publish one third of their representative papers in domestic Chinese journals, which is being hailed as a big boost for…
What university has the top Impact composite score? What university is tops in Asia? What do the University of Massachusetts (U Mass) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have in common? What region is the star? (26 April 2020) Last year, Ruth’s Rankings 38 provided background on the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Ruth’s…
(17 Apr 2020) Time constraints are the most common reason researchers in developing countries turn to plagiarism, a survey of more than 700 researchers from low- and middle-income countries found. Most of those surveyed disapproved of plagiarism in theory, and acknowledged that those who do it are not respected by their peers. One in three admitted…
(14 Apr 2020) In less than a week, PAHO and Atmire established a COVID19 subject repository. An increasing number of Atmire clients are publicly exposing COVID19 research in their repositories. As the latest client to go live on Atmire’s DSpace Express platform, https://covid19-evidence.paho.org/ contains PAHO COVID19 guidance and the latest research in the Americas. The…
(14 Apr 2020) In March of 2017, senior Library of Congress managers formed a cross-departmental Digital Scholarship Working Group to respond to a set of foundational questions: What are the current demand and the current levels of response for digital scholarship? What are potential approaches to enhancing digital scholarship support across the Library? and, What would…
(updated 30 Apr 2020) Given the movement of people are restricted during this extreme moment without having resources as normal, iGroup is rolling out a series of webinar to help researchers to continue learning while at home, with the theme “To do your research work @ home: read-write-draw-promote” Series of webinars as follows: Read the…
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