A Comment of the comments Naumov, Pance
Macedonian Journal of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
06/2024, Volume:
43, Issue:
1
Journal Article
Open access
Commenting on the work of other authors is justified when there are serious concerns related the scientific content, and the authors do not respond with valid arguments so that such concerns cannot ...be addressed. It should not be used to advertise one’s own work.
Examines the number of citations to papers published in International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), International Symposium on High- ...Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), and International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO). Given that these four conferences are the most prestigious in computer architecture, they are an excellent proxy for academic research as they likely contain the most innovative ideas. As such, papers from these conferences could provide important building blocks for a company’s patented inventions; if so, these papers should be cited in the company’s patents.
Knowing the best way of structuring your paper when writing it, and the most appropriate journal to send it to, really helps in getting your paper accepted. Also understanding how editors and ...publishers think and what they expect, and knowing how the peer review process works, is invaluable insight into the publishing process.
After attending this author workshop, one in the Elsevier Publishing Academy Workshop series, participants will have a clear idea of the steps needed to be taken before starting to write a paper. They will also be able to plan writing manuscripts using the logical step sequence – not the sequence in which the paper will be read. Authors are also made aware of what aspects of their papers Editors, Reviewers, and Publishers look at critically, and to ensure that in taking care of these areas, their papers are much more likely to be accepted. Dealing with referees’ comments and the art of polite rebuttal are also described such that these can be used to improve the submitted paper suitably. Sensitive areas such as publishing ethics, plagiarism, duplicate publishing, etc. are also clearly explained such that participants have a clear understanding of what their responsibilities are, what is allowed, and what is not permitted.
These insights into the publishing process will enable the participants to be more confident as an author in the world of science publishing, and so should help them get their papers published more easily.
A negative consequence of the rapid growth of scholarly open access publishing funded by article processing charges is the emergence of publishers and journals with highly questionable marketing and ...peer review practices. These so-called predatory publishers are causing unfounded negative publicity for open access publishing in general. Reports about this branch of e-business have so far mainly concentrated on exposing lacking peer review and scandals involving publishers and journals. There is a lack of comprehensive studies about several aspects of this phenomenon, including extent and regional distribution.
After an initial scan of all predatory publishers and journals included in the so-called Beall's list, a sample of 613 journals was constructed using a stratified sampling method from the total of over 11,000 journals identified. Information about the subject field, country of publisher, article processing charge and article volumes published between 2010 and 2014 were manually collected from the journal websites. For a subset of journals, individual articles were sampled in order to study the country affiliation of authors and the publication delays.
Over the studied period, predatory journals have rapidly increased their publication volumes from 53,000 in 2010 to an estimated 420,000 articles in 2014, published by around 8,000 active journals. Early on, publishers with more than 100 journals dominated the market, but since 2012 publishers in the 10-99 journal size category have captured the largest market share. The regional distribution of both the publisher's country and authorship is highly skewed, in particular Asia and Africa contributed three quarters of authors. Authors paid an average article processing charge of 178 USD per article for articles typically published within 2 to 3 months of submission.
Despite a total number of journals and publishing volumes comparable to respectable (indexed by the Directory of Open Access Journals) open access journals, the problem of predatory open access seems highly contained to just a few countries, where the academic evaluation practices strongly favor international publication, but without further quality checks.
The term research impact is variously defined in academic scholarship, by national and international research funding bodies, publishers, and other relevant entities, although common definitional ...elements exist. Concise definitions describe the term as relating to academic research that directly and or indirectly guides policymaking processes, by enabling evidence-based decision-making and or improving understanding of a given subject area or areas <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref1">1 . Underlying this and all definitions of research impact is the fundamental assumption that the outcome(s) of university research will serve the "public good" <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref2">2, p. 1368 .
With open‐access publishing authors often pay an article processing charge and subsequently their article is freely available online. These charges are beyond the reach of most African academics. ...Thus, the trend towards open‐access publishing will shift the business model from a pay‐wall model, where access to literature is limited, to a pay‐to‐publish one, where African scholars cannot afford to publish. We explore the costs of publishing and the ability of African scholars to afford to publish via open access in top journals. Three‐quarters of the 40 top ecology journals required payment for open‐access publishing (average cost $3150). Paying such fees is a hardship for African scholars as grant funding is not available and it is not feasible to pay the fees themselves as salaries are low. We encourage funders and publishers to facilitate an equitable publishing model that allows African scholars to make their research available through open‐access publishing.
Open‐access publishing is a business model where authors pay an article processing charge and subsequently, their article is made freely available online, but these charges are beyond the reach of most African academics. We explored the costs of publishing in 40 top ecology journals and the ability of African scholars to afford to publish their work as open access and found that three‐quarters of journals required payment for open‐access publishing and the average cost in 2019 was $3150; an amount far greater than what African researchers can typically find from grant money or pay themselves. We encourage funders and publishers to facilitate a more equitable publishing model to allow African scholars to make their research available through open‐access publishing.
In times of public crises, including the current COVID-19 pandemic, rapid dissemination of relevant scientific knowledge is of paramount importance. The duration of scholarly journals’ publication ...process is one of the main factors that may hinder quick delivery of new information. Following initiatives of medical journals to accelerate their publication process, this study assesses whether medical journals have managed to speed up their publication process for coronavirus-related articles. It studies the duration of 14 medical journals’ publication processes both during and prior to the current pandemic. Assessing 669 articles, the study concludes that medical journals have indeed strongly accelerated their publication process for coronavirus-related articles since the outbreak of the pandemic: The time between submission and publication has decreased on average by 49%. The largest decrease in number of days between submission and publication of articles was due to a decrease in time required for peer review. For articles not related to COVID-19, no acceleration of the publication process is found. While the acceleration of the publication process is laudable from the perspective of quick information dissemination, it also may raise concerns relating to the quality of the peer review process and of the resulting publications.
We are now seeing governments and funding agencies looking at ways to increase the value and pace of scientific research through increased or open access to both data and publications. In this point ...of view article, we wish to look at another aspect of these twin revolutions, namely, how to enable developers, designers and researchers to build intuitive,multimodal, user-centric, scientific applications that can aid and enable scientific research.
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