20/02/2020
« Des chercheurs qui cherchent, on en trouve. Des chercheurs qui trouvent… on en trouve aussi. Il suffit de jeter un œil aux bénéfices annuels de l’édition scientifique. Parce que tout…
19/02/2020
« Le marché de l’édition scientifique a connu de nombreuses évolutions avec l’avènement du numérique, du Libre Accès et des nouveaux modèles de publication. Cet article aborde le cas de l’éditeur…
12/02/2020
« Scientific communication has evolved over time and the formats of scientific writing, including its stylistic modules, have changed accordingly. Research articles from the past fit a research world that had…
11/02/2020
« Consider for a moment the rate of advancement in the scientific understanding of DNA. It is formidable; from Fredrich Miescher’s nuclein extraction in the 1860s to Rosalind Franklin’s double helix…
08/01/2020
« Predatory journals are Open Access journals of highly questionable scientific quality. Such journals pretend to use peer review for quality assurance, and spam academics with requests for submissions, in order…
03/01/2020
« This study estimates the effect of data sharing on the citations of academic articles, using journal policies as a natural experiment. We begin by examining 17 high-impact journals that have…
11/10/2019
« Open Access is often considered as particularly beneficial to researchers in the Global South. However, research into awareness of and attitudes to Open Access has been largely dominated by voices…
28/08/2019
« Objective. To analyse quantitatively the articles published during 2008_2017 about the academic social networking site ResearchGate. Methods. A scoping bibliometric review of documents retrieved using Google Scholar was conducted, limited…
27/08/2019
« Because the Impact Factor (IF) is an average quantity and most journals are small, IFs are volatile. We study how a single paper affects the IF using data from 11639…
24/06/2019
« Preprint usage is growing rapidly in the life sciences; however, questions remain on the relative quality of preprints when compared to published articles. An objective dimension of quality that is…