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Guest Post — Six Things Your Marketing Colleagues Wish You Knew

Industry pros offer a marketing manifesto of sorts, to help our non-marketing colleagues see behind the curtain and understand how to best leverage these critical team members.

  • By Stephanie Lovegrove Hansen
  • Jul 28, 2025
  • 7 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

What’s in a Name? The Stories Behind Some Scholarly Publishing Brand Names

Find out how Ripeta, ResearchFish, Publons, Morressier, Quartzy, Zanran, Quertle, Citavi, Writefull, Gigantum and Kudos got their names.

  • By Charlie Rapple
  • Apr 16, 2020
  • 19 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Knockoffs Erode Trust in Metrics Market

If the Internet created a burgeoning market of cheap academic journal knockoffs, should we be surprised to witness new knockoff ratings companies?

  • By Phil Davis
  • Mar 10, 2015
  • 5 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Metrics and Meaning — Can We Find Relevance and Quality Without Measurements?

Putting metrics and altmetrics into perspective can help us separate secondary signals from primary signals, and may lead to a greater appreciation of alternatives to metrics, or alt2metrics.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Nov 29, 2012
  • 12 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Does Rejecting Papers Amount to More Than Just a Transaction Cost?

The expenses publishers incur rejecting papers and book proposals are about more than filtering.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Oct 6, 2010
  • 16 Comments
  • Time To Read: 3 mins

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