« Peer review is a critical component of the scientific process. When conducted properly by dedicated and competent reviewers, it helps to safeguard the quality, validity, authority and rigour of academic work. However, bias in peer review is well documented and can skew objectivity of the review and hinder fair assessment…
« The adoption of journal policies requiring authors to include a Data Availability Statement has helped to increase the availability of research data associated with research articles. However, having a Data Availability Statement is not a guarantee that readers will be able to locate the data; even if provided with an…
« Open Access (OA) dissemination has been gaining a lot of momentum over the last decade, thanks to the implementation of several OA policies by funders and institutions, as well as the development of several new platforms that facilitate the publication of OA content at low or no cost. Studies have…
« The present paper makes a systematic review of 131 articles on research productivity basing upon a model developed by Denyer and Tranfield. The current review paper analyzed the quantitative and qualitative dimensions of the sample literature in the field of research productivity. (…) »
« Examining research patterns across scientific fields constitutes a growing research enterprise to understand how global knowledge production unfolds. However, scattered empirical evidence has casted light on how the publication diversity of the most productive scholars differ across disciplines, considering their gender and geographical representation. This study focuses on the most…
« This paper investigates whether free access to scientific literature increases the participation of under-represented groups in scientific discourse. To this end, we aggregate and match data tracing access to Sci-Hub, a widely used black open access (OA) repository or shadow library, and publication data from the Web of Science (WoS).…
« (…) Dans sa nouvelle note Le Cirad recommande les revues en libre accès total et immédiat pour publier ou relire des articles, la Délégation à l’information scientifique et technique (Dist) du Cirad guide les scientifiques de l’établissement dans le choix des revues à…
« L’accès immédiat, libre et gratuit au contenu intégral de l’article scientifique est de plus en plus exigé par les gouvernements, les institutions et les bailleurs. Comment s’y conformer ?
Cet accès peut concerner la version finale publiée par la revue ou la version postprint, c’est-à-dire la version acceptée du…
« (…) By requiring open access immediately available upon publication, the DOAJ emerges as an essential voice in discussions of modalities of access, particularly in what pertains to hybrid journals or articles with embargo periods, establishing the very scope of the definition of open access. An analysis of the set of…
« Cette fiche décrit le déroulement d’une évaluation et différentie les modèles en fonction de quatre critères : visibilité des identités des intervenants de l’évaluation, mode d’interaction entre ces intervenants, publication des informations de l’évaluation, commentaires post-publication. (…) »
