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Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Gabriela F. Nane, Nicolas Robinson-Garcia, Francois van Schalkwyk, Daniel Torres-Salinas
Summary: This study models the growth of scientific literature related to COVID-19 and provides predictions based on ARIMA and exponential smoothing models. These predictions are crucial for scientists, politicians, and citizens to make scientifically informed decisions when facing a large corpus of scientific literature.
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Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Lucia Echevarria, Alberto Malerba, Virginia Arechavala-Gomeza
Summary: The survey indicates that researchers highly value publication of negative results, but often do not publish their own due to lack of time and concerns about citation. Open access publishing is widely accepted, but not actively sought by researchers due to associated high costs.
NUCLEIC ACID THERAPEUTICS
(2021)
News Item
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Layal Liverpool
Summary: The group behind Plan S is proposing a more radical revolution for science publishing, after already accelerating the open-access movement.
Editorial Material
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Gemma Conroy
Summary: The use of AI in writing and reviewing could potentially revolutionize the nature of scientific papers.
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
John Frank, Rosemary Foster, Claudia Pagliari
Summary: The international scholarly publishing community has been engaged in a divisive debate about the funding model for scientific research dissemination for the past twenty years, and recent commentaries suggest that the issue is far from resolved. This narrative review examines the deep divisions among stakeholders in the field, explores the systemic factors driving these divisions, and considers the future prospects of implementing the intended benefits of Open Access (OA) while mitigating its risks and costs. The review also highlights the inequities of OA for junior or unfunded researchers and scholars from resource-poor environments, who face discrimination and injustice due to Article Processing Charges.
SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE
(2023)
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Medicine, General & Internal
Mallory K. Ellingson, Xiaoting Shi, Joshua J. Skydel, Kate Nyhan, Richard Lehman, Joseph S. Ross, Joshua D. Wallach
Summary: In 2019, medical researchers paid a wide range of fees for publishing in fee-based open access journals, with high-impact researchers paying significantly higher fees than general researchers.
News Item
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Jeff Tollefson, Richard Van Noorden
Summary: The Biden administration has instructed all US agencies to require immediate access to federally funded research after it is published, starting in 2026.
Article
Computer Science, Information Systems
Kilian Buehling, Matthias Geissler, Dorothea Strecker
Summary: This study investigates whether free access to scientific literature increases the participation of under-represented groups in scientific discourse. The results show that in the field of mathematics, free access to academic knowledge is likely to improve the representation of authors from developing countries in international journals.
JOURNAL OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
(2022)
Editorial Material
Astronomy & Astrophysics
M. Sikand, E. Avery, C. Friedrichsen, T. Roy
Summary: This article consists of three independent commentaries on the state and future of Integrated, Coordinated, Open, and Networked (ICON) principles in the Science and Society section of the American Geophysical Union. The commentaries discuss the connection of science to three broad areas of society - Citizen Science, Collaboration across Natural Sciences and Social Sciences, and Education Policy - and highlight challenges and untapped opportunities in these areas. The ICON processes described in these areas offer universal lessons and can be adapted to other areas of impact in society.
EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCE
(2023)
Editorial Material
Environmental Sciences
Martyn P. Clark, Charles H. Luce, Amir AghaKouchak, Wouter Berghuijs, Cedric H. David, Qingyun Duan, Shemin Ge, Ilja van Meerveld, Chunmiao Zheng, Marc B. Parlange, Scott W. Tyler
Summary: This commentary discusses the challenges and opportunities associated with transitioning Water Resources Research to a Gold open access publication model, including a review of open access publishing models, community input, and the path forward for AGU leadership. The decision to switch to open access is framed by a mix of finances and values, with the challenge of defining payment methods and improving affordability, along with increasing the extent of open and accessible science. The next steps for the community involve analyzing the financial feasibility of different cost models and balancing the financial burden of open access with the desire to advance open science further.
WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH
(2021)
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Martin McKee, Danny Altmann, Anthony Costello, Karl Friston, Zubaida Haque, Kamlesh Khunti, Susan Michie, Tolullah Oni, Christina Pagel, Deenan Pillay, Steve Reicher, Helen Salisbury, Gabriel Scally, Kit Yates, Linda Bauld, Laura Bear, John Drury, Melissa Parker, Ann Phoenix, Elizabeth Stokoe, Robert West
Summary: The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the intricate relationship between science and policy. In the UK, the establishment of Independent SAGE, an informal group of multidisciplinary scientists, has provided valuable insights and evidence-based recommendations for policy-making, emphasizing the importance of public health approaches and public engagement.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Henrik Thoren, Niko Soininen, Niina Kotamaki
Summary: This paper examines the reliance of legal decision-making on scientific knowledge and the exchange of problems and solutions between different communities of expertise using the problem-feeding model of interdisciplinarity. The authors argue that tensions between the notions of uncertainty used by different communities can disrupt the orderly exchange of problems and solutions, potentially affecting the relationship between legal institutions and scientific experts. Illustrative examples and a fictional discussion between a lawyer and a modeler are used to support this argument.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY
(2021)
Article
Computer Science, Information Systems
Fahima Amin Bhuyan, Shiyong Lu, Robert Reynolds, Jia Zhang, Ishtiaq Ahmed
Summary: The concept of collaborative scientific workflow is introduced to meet the growing demand for collaborative data analytics. Access control policies are essential in collaborative environments for controlling the sharing of workflows, data products, and provenance information among collaborators. This paper proposes a role-based access control model for scientific workflow provenance and defines three quality requirements for access control policies. Additionally, a mapping mechanism is developed to preserve the quality properties of workflow provenance, and a case study on autism behavioral data analysis demonstrates the feasibility of the proposed analysis algorithms.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SERVICES COMPUTING
(2022)
Article
Acoustics
Allan D. Pierce
Summary: Authors now have the option of publishing their scientific articles open access by paying a fee, allowing readers to freely download the articles. This option has gained popularity among authors who want their work to reach a wider audience. The article reviews the emergence of this option and presents arguments for its usage.
JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL AND COMPUTATIONAL ACOUSTICS
(2022)
Review
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Akira Matsui, Emily Chen, Yunwen Wang, Emilio Ferrara
Summary: This study uses open data from nearly 5,000 PeerJ publications to investigate the impact of peer-reviewing process on acceptance timeline and contribution potential of manuscripts. Findings suggest that peer reviewers choosing to reveal their names might influence review sentiment. Additionally, a taxonomy of manuscript modifications during revision sheds light on the changes authors make based on peer reviewer feedback.
Article
Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Kim Holmberg, Juha Hedman, Timothy D. Bowman, Fereshteh Didegah, Mikael Laakso
Article
Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Antti M. Rousi, Mikael Laakso
Article
Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Mohamed Boufarss, Mikael Laakso
Article
Computer Science, Information Systems
Mikael Laakso, Lisa Matthias, Najko Jahn
Summary: This study focuses on vanished journals, finding 174 OA journals that disappeared from the web between 2000 and 2019. It highlights the urgent need for collaborative action to ensure continued access and prevent the loss of scholarly knowledge.
JOURNAL OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Computer Science, Information Systems
Najko Jahn, Lisa Matthias, Mikael Laakso
Summary: With the growth of OA, financial flows in scholarly journal publishing have become complex, especially regarding the lack of transparency in hybrid OA. This study uses Elsevier article metadata to show that hybrid OA uptake has been steadily increasing, with most articles being invoiced directly to authors.
JOURNAL OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
(2022)
Letter
Computer Science, Information Systems
Mikael Laakso, Lisa Matthias, Najko Jahn
JOURNAL OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Wileidys Artigas, Eurico Wongo Gungula, Mikael Laakso
Summary: This study investigates the awareness and incorporation of open access to journal publications in higher education institutions in Angola. The results indicate that while there is moderate awareness, the practical implementation of open access has been slow.
Article
Information Science & Library Science
Antti Mikael Rousi, Mikael Laakso
Summary: Overlay journals are a type of open access journals where articles are first published on repositories and then submitted to the journal for peer review. This study aimed to identify currently active overlay journals and examine their characteristics. The results show that new overlay journals have been established in recent years, but their overall presence is still small compared to traditional open access journals. Most overlay journals publish articles in natural sciences, mathematics or computer sciences, and are commonly published by academic groups. They may also have high rankings in traditional journal citation metrics. None of the investigated journals required fees from authors, which is related to the cost-effective nature of the overlay publishing model. The wider impact of overlay journals on scholarly publishing will depend on the growth of open access preprint repositories and researchers' willingness to publish in overlay journals.
JOURNAL OF LIBRARIANSHIP AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Education & Educational Research
Mikael Laakso
Summary: This article provides a comprehensive review of the current state and development trajectories of open research practices in general and in the context of language sciences. The lack of an established metascience discipline in language sciences and other research disciplines is a universal problem. A stronger and more cohesive metascience discipline would be beneficial for research and researchers.
Article
Environmental Studies
Mikael Laakso, Anna-Maija Multas
Summary: This study examines the relationship between scholarly journal publishing and public funding, focusing on small- and mid-sized journal publishers in European countries. With the rise of open science, an increasing number of journals worldwide are free to access and publish in, leading to the need for journals to seek alternative resources apart from subscription income. The study collects data on small- and mid-sized journal publishers and country-level public funding mechanisms, revealing a diverse range of funding approaches across European countries.
SCIENCE AND PUBLIC POLICY
(2023)
Article
Computer Science, Information Systems
Mikael Laakso
Summary: This study aims to fill the knowledge gap in the field of open access (OA) books by aggregating metadata records for OA books and cross-matching them with trusted preservation services. The findings reveal concerns about the long-term preservation of OA books distributed across various web domains.
JOURNAL OF DOCUMENTATION
(2023)
Article
Information Science & Library Science
Mohamed Boufarss, Mikael Laakso
Summary: This study investigates the interplay between open access, coauthorship, and international research collaboration. Using data from all Scopus-indexed journal articles published between 2009 and 2019 with at least one author affiliated to a United Arab Emirates institution (total of 30,400 articles), the analysis reveals a positive relationship between a higher number of coauthors, particularly international, and the open access status of articles.
QUANTITATIVE SCIENCE STUDIES
(2023)
Article
Information Science & Library Science
Mikael Laakso, Bo-Christer Bjork
Summary: Recent studies have shown a low adoption rate of Open Access journals in the business fields, mainly due to evaluation practices emphasizing publishing in journals included in ranking lists.
JOURNAL OF LIBRARIANSHIP AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Information Science & Library Science
Janne Polonen, Mikael Laakso, Raf Guns, Emanuel Kulczycki, Gunnar Sivertsen
QUANTITATIVE SCIENCE STUDIES
(2020)
Article
Information Science & Library Science
Lisa Matthias, Najko Jahn, Mikael Laakso
Article
Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Hao Teng, Nan Wang, Hongyu Zhao, Yingtong Hu, Haitao Jin
Summary: In this paper, a new method based on functional semantic knowledge (FOP) is proposed for patent similarity calculation. Furthermore, patent STS datasets are processed and released as benchmarks. Preliminary results show that FOP-based methods are more suitable for STS tasks when combined with IPC codes, weights' assignments, and patent pre-trained vectors.
JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS
(2024)
Article
Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Cristina Urdiales, Eduardo Guzman
Summary: Subject categorization of scientific publications is important for evaluating paper quality. Traditional mechanisms for categorization have been questioned, and a new method based on association rules is proposed. The method automatically defines publication categories based on the repetition or absence of relevant descriptors. The empirical study in the field of Physical Sciences and Engineering shows that the proposed method produces consistent and suitable categorization results.
JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS
(2024)
