A journal article dataset has been developed with metadata of articles by France-based authors in the period 2013-2020. The purpose of this dataset was to form a basis for the retrospective and prospective analyses of the total costs of APCs paid by French institutions. This article presents the main results of the retrospective analysis of the dataset regarding the numbers of APC-paid articles with a France-based corresponding author.

En los últimos años se ha observado una proliferación de revistas fraudulentas, en algunos casos asociadas a congresos de la misma naturaleza. Los autores de estas prácticas ilegítimas han desarrollado una extraordinaria capacidad para estafar a autores y lectores.
Latindex viene trabajando en este tema desde hace un tiempo y ha elaborado distintos materiales de difusión. Aquí está la segunda versión de la Guía para editores Identificación y tratamiento de revistas espurias en Latindex.

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Otros recursos de interés: Revistas confiables vs. revistas espurias

The Guidelines on Inclusive Language and Images in Scholarly Communication are an expansion of C4DISC’s Toolkits for Equity project. They came together due to the growing need for more comprehensive and global guidelines to help authors, editors, and reviewers recognize the use of language and images that are inclusive and culturally sensitive. As the Guidelines will be updated annually, the entire scholarly publishing community may help grow and improve them over time by suggesting new references, recommendations, and resources.

The author of this post compares two different opinions about a trend resulting in increasing standardisation of journal articles. Drawing on a recent survey of forty years of research papers in the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS) and interviews with authors, Wolfgang Kaltenbrunner and his team observe an increasing homogenisation of published work. Weighing up the pros and cons of this development, they discuss whether it has enhanced or limited intellectual innovations in STS. On the contrary, Kaveh Bazargan argued, in a presentation at the NISO Conference in 2022, that using standard technology, notably XML, can increase standardization and as a result promote open science.

Le Groupe de travail sur les données bibliométriques (GT-Bibliométrie) du réseau de l’Université du Québec a mis récemment en ligne le Carrefour bibliométrie. Il s’adresse à toute personne intéressée par cette pratique qui sert à évaluer l’impact des communications scientifiques. Ce guide permettra aux chercheurs et aux auteurs de répondre à leurs questions : Dans quelle revue devrais-je publier? Ma recherche a-t-elle une influence dans la communauté? Quels seraient mes collaborateurs potentiels?  Enfin, le Carrefour intègre un Guide des bonnes pratiques en bibliométrie, utilisable en version dynamique Web ou en version statique PDF.

The Predator Effect is the first book to chart the rise and impact of deceptive publishing. The book looks at history, development and impact of predatory journals, putting their rise in context of wider issues such as open access and publication ethics. By shining a light on the murky world of predatory journals, readers will learn how to identify and avoid them in their activities – benefiting their own work and research. Download the book (open access).

This article explores a journal’s turnaround time (TAT) trends across ten of the largest publishers that, as of 2020, accounted for more than 2/3 of all journal papers. It utilizes the timestamps of articles that were published in the period 2011/12 compared to the period 2019/20. The author explains why publishing speed matters to authors and why the production stage and the peer review have become faster in the last 10 years. The author concludes that slowing down is evitable and points out an example showing it is possible to have high editorial standards and be fast at the same time.

In September 2022, the SciELO Program has updated the document Criteria, policy and procedures for the admission and permanence of journals in the SciELO Brazil Collection with a new version. The document is referred to as SciELO Brazil Criteria for its purpose and function of contributing to the development of Brazil’s journals, and at the same time, it serves as a reference for the indexing criteria of all SciELO Network collections. The purpose of this evaluation is to monitor, promote and strengthen the development of the SciELO Brazil Collection of journals and its alignment with the open science modus operandi.

The key principle of Plan S states that “from 2021, scientific publications that result from research funded by public grants must be published in compliant Open Access journals or platforms.” The Guidance document defines “scientific publications” further as “peer-reviewed scholarly publications”. In light of the accelerating development of journal-independent peer-review services, cOAlition S would like to explicitly state that ‘peer reviewed publications’ – defined here as scholarly papers that have been subject to a journal-independent standard peer review process with an implicit or explicit validation– are considered by most cOAlition S organisations to be of equivalent merit and status as peer-reviewed publications that are published in a recognised journal or on a platform.