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Future of the OA Megajournal

Predicted to radically consolidate STM journals, the OA megajournal has found a successful niche market. The same can be said for MOOCs.

  • By Phil Davis
  • Jan 10, 2018
  • 12 Comments

PeerJ Membership Model and The Paradox Of The Loyal Customer

Pivoting away from individual memberships to sources of institutional funding, PeerJ has entered into a crowded market of low-cost megajournals. Can it survive?

  • By Phil Davis
  • May 8, 2017
  • 4 Comments

Scientific Reports Overtakes PLOS ONE As Largest Megajournal

The open access megajournal is a proven success, but its future may lie in the hands of commercial entities.

  • By Phil Davis
  • Apr 6, 2017
  • 12 Comments

Scientific Reports On Track To Become Largest Journal In The World

Higher Impact Factor, faster publication, and weaker data availability policies may be drawing authors away from PLOS ONE.

  • By Phil Davis
  • Aug 23, 2016
  • 28 Comments

Thumbs Down for the Freemium Model? Researchers Reject Nature’s Fast Track Peer Review Experiment

Nature conducts an experiment in paid fast track peer review, and the research community responds with concerns over creating an unfair tiered system for publication.

  • By David Crotty
  • May 5, 2015
  • 21 Comments

Validation vs. Filtration and Designation — Are We Mismarketing the Core Strengths of Peer Review?

Narrowing the definition of peer review to only validation standards, we may be exposing peer review in its least flattering light, while ignoring the more reliable and powerful ways in which peer review serves science.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Feb 18, 2013
  • 76 Comments

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