‘At-risk articles’: the imperative to recover lost science

IF 1.1 Q3 INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE
J. Hatherill
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Abstract

Deceptive publishers have been discussed and written about from a multitude of perspectives and in a variety of disciplines, but scant attention has been devoted to a particular aspect of the issue: How we as scholarly communities are dealing with the research that appears in these outlets. It is problematic that the question is not being addressed, as this research is at risk of being lost. It is at risk because articles that appear in deceptive publications are not indexed, so they are less visible, discoverable and citable. Additionally, they are not preserved and therefore likely to disappear should the publisher cease its activities or neglect to carry out basic maintenance on their archives and servers. Furthermore, it is particularly problematic because this lost science is potentially valuable. In this article, it is argued that, rather than continuing to risk the loss of this potentially important research by ignoring its existence, research disciplines should look at developments in open peer review and the increasing use of preprint servers for their potential to recover and reintegrate these at-risk articles into the scholarly record.
“有风险的文章”:恢复失去的科学的必要性
人们已经从不同的角度和不同的学科对欺骗性出版商进行了讨论和著述,但很少有人关注这个问题的一个特定方面:我们作为学术团体如何处理出现在这些渠道上的研究。这个问题没有得到解决是有问题的,因为这项研究有丢失的危险。这是有风险的,因为出现在欺骗性出版物上的文章没有被索引,所以它们不那么可见、可发现和可引用。此外,它们没有得到保存,因此如果出版商停止其活动或忽视对其档案和服务器进行基本维护,它们可能会消失。此外,这尤其成问题,因为这门丢失的科学具有潜在的价值。在这篇文章中,我们认为,与其继续冒着失去这一潜在重要研究的风险而忽视它的存在,研究学科应该关注开放同行评审的发展和预印本服务器的日益使用,因为它们有可能恢复并重新将这些有风险的文章整合到学术记录中。
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Insights-The UKSG Journal
Insights-The UKSG Journal INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE-
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