Hacking a Top Journals List: A Collective Approach to Developing Metrics?
A hackathon for the Financial Times Top 50 journals list is underway for those who want to shape how metrics are developed. An interview with Andrew Jack.
Unpacking The Altmetric Black Box
Article Attention Scores for papers don’t seem to add up, leading one to question whether Altmetric data are valid, reliable, and reproducible.
More Unintended Consequences: How the Plan S Transformative Journal Route Favors Larger Incumbent Publishers
For smaller and independent publishers, the Transformative Journal route to Plan S compliance seems like a viable option. At least until you see the reporting requirements.
Journal Citation Indicator. Just Another Tool in Clarivate’s Metrics Toolbox?
Can Clarivate deliver on a single, normalized measurement of citation impact or did its marketing department promise too much?
Clarivate to Acquire ProQuest
Clarivate to Acquire ProQuest: analysis by Roger Schonfeld
Guest Post – Starting a Novel Software Journal within the Existing Scholarly Publishing Ecosystem: Technical and Social Lessons
The Journal of Open Source Software was designed from scratch using the principles of open source and software design practices. This has both advantages and disadvantages, particularly with respect to elements of the traditional scholarly publishing ecosystem.
Experiences Behind the Data: Making Human Sense of Pandemic Usage Reports
As publishers and librarians draw conclusions from the last year of usage data, we must look to qualitative analysis to round out the picture of the human conditions behind the quantitative trends.
Guest Post — Putting Publications into Context with the DocMaps Framework for Editorial Metadata
The DocMaps Project offers a machine-readable, interoperable and extensible framework for capturing valuable context about the processes used to create research products such as journal articles.
Driving Responsibly with Identity Management (Part 2: A Case Study)
Emerald Publishing’s identity strategy aims to re-conceive their publishing platform as a digital experience that builds emotive connections with users and seamlessly delivers the answers they need.
Guest Post – Scientific Output in the Year of COVID, An Update
An update and a correction for an earlier post on research publication growth in 2020.
Sci-Hub Citation Study Confuses Causes With Effects
Do Sci-Hub downloads cause more citations, or are high impact papers simply downloaded more often?
The Cell Press Inclusion and Diversity Statement — An Interview with Deborah Sweet
Deborah Sweet of Cell Press discusses their recently introduced Inclusion and Diversity Statement in this interview with Alice Meadows
Changing Journal Impact Factor Rules Creates Unfair Playing Field For Some
Some journals are expected to benefit immensely under Clarivate’s new counting model.
Guest Post — Citing Software in Scholarly Publishing to Improve Reproducibility, Reuse, and Credit
Daniel Katz and Hollydawn Murray present the FORCE11 Software Citation Implementation Working Group’s guidelines for citing the software used in research publications.
Guest Post — Evaluating Publishers as Partners with Libraries and Higher Education
Rachel Caldwell presents PAPPI, a proposed matrix for determining how well a publisher or vendor aligns with the mission of libraries.