Revue scientifique

The Seismica Initiative: towards a community-driven, Diamond Open Access journal for seismological research
28/04/2021

The Seismica Initiative: towards a community-driven, Diamond Open Access journal for seismological research

« (…) Volcanica (www.jvolcanica.org) has been accepting submissions for two years now, and at this time of writing has published 37 peer-reviewed manuscripts. Being a fully Open Access journal, Volcanica does not generate revenue from reader/library subscriptions, nor does it charge article processing charges to the authors. This…

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Fifteen journals to outsource peer-review decisions
20/04/2021

Fifteen journals to outsource peer-review decisions

« Some scholarly publishers have already outsourced operations like copy editing and printing. Now, 15 journals are outsourcing something central to science itself: the peer-review process. The journals, which include BMJ Open Science and Royal Society Open Science, say they will accept articles reviewed by a nonprofit “peer community” organization. (…) »

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Quantitative Science Studies: Understanding Chinese science: New scientometric perspectives [Special Issue]
13/04/2021

Quantitative Science Studies: Understanding Chinese science: New scientometric perspectives [Special Issue]

« (…)The special issue covers a diversity of topics on Chinese science, ranging from scientometric analyses (i.e., Chinese social science in general, Sino-U.S. collaborative research, Chinese domestic publication in science, and China’s research team size features and dynamics) to studies of the Chinese science system and research…

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Attracting new users or business as usual? A case study of converting academic subscription-based journals to open access
09/04/2021

Attracting new users or business as usual? A case study of converting academic subscription-based journals to open access

« This paper studies a selection of 11 Norwegian journals in the humanities and social sciences and their conversion from subscription to open access, a move heavily incentivized by governmental mandates and open access policies. By investigating the journals’ visiting logs in the period 2014–2019, the study finds that a conversion…

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