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Exploring the relationship between journal indexing and article processing charges of journals published by MDPI, the Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 探讨多学科数字出版研究所MDPI出版的期刊标引与论文处理费的关系

European Science Editing Pub Date : 2020-12-24 DOI: 10.3897/ese.2020.e54523

H. Okagbue, J. A. Teixeira da Silva, T. Anake

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引用次数: 3

Help scientists save time for research by minimizing editorial requirements for initial manuscript submission 通过最大限度地减少首次稿件提交的编辑要求，帮助科学家节省研究时间

European Science Editing Pub Date : 2020-12-17 DOI: 10.3897/ese.2020.e60083

Sylwia B. Ufnalska

引用次数: 3

My article has just been rejected! 我的文章刚刚被退稿了!

European Science Editing Pub Date : 2020-12-14 DOI: 10.3897/ese.2020.e52497

J. Iwaz

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International disparities in open access practices in the Earth Sciences 地球科学开放获取实践的国际差异

European Science Editing Pub Date : 2020-12-08 DOI: 10.31223/x5hw2s

O. Pourret, D. Hedding, D. Ibarra, Dasapta Erwin Irawan, Haiyan Liu, Jonathan P. Tennant

{"title":"International disparities in open access practices in the Earth Sciences","authors":"O. Pourret, D. Hedding, D. Ibarra, Dasapta Erwin Irawan, Haiyan Liu, Jonathan P. Tennant","doi":"10.31223/x5hw2s","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31223/x5hw2s","url":null,"abstract":"Background: Open access (OA) implies free and unrestricted access to and re-use of research articles. Recently, OA publishing has seen a new wave of interest, debate, and practices surrounding that mode of publishing.\u0000 Objectives: To provide an overview of publication practices and to compare them among six countries across the world to stimulate further debate and to raise awareness about OA to facilitate decision-making on further development of OA practices in earth sciences.\u0000 Methods: The number of OA articles, their distribution among the six countries, and top ten journals publishing OA articles were identified using two databases, namely Scopus and the Web of Science, based mainly on the data for 2018.\u0000 Results: In 2018, only 24%–31% of the total number of articles indexed by either of the databases were OA articles. Six of the top ten earth sciences journals that publish OA articles were fully OA journals and four were hybrid journals. Fully OA journals were mostly published by emerging publishers and their article processing charges ranged from $1000 to $2200.\u0000 Conclusions: The rise in OA publishing has potential implications for researchers and tends to shift article-processing charges from organizations to individuals. Until the earth sciences community decides to move away from journal-based criteria to evaluate researchers, it is likely that such high costs will continue to maintain financial inequities within this research community, especially to the disadvantage of researchers from the least developed countries. However, earth scientists, by opting for legal self- archiving of their publications, could help to promote equitable and sustainable access to, and wider dissemination of, their work.","PeriodicalId":35360,"journal":{"name":"European Science Editing","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47585124","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 4

The intentional search for meaning: developing technical editing skills 有意寻找意义：培养技术编辑技能

European Science Editing Pub Date : 2020-11-25 DOI: 10.3897/ese.2020.e53691

T. Lang

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Response to Jaime A Teixeira da Silva's article, "Suggestions for fortifying the discoverability of papers published in European Science Editing" 对Jaime A Teixeira da Silva文章“加强在欧洲科学编辑上发表的论文可发现性的建议”的回应

European Science Editing Pub Date : 2020-11-11 DOI: 10.3897/ese.2020.e57899

T. A. Lang

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Correction to Pippa Smart’s viewpoint, “Dealing with diffcult authors”. DOI:10.3897/ese.2020.e52201 纠正Pippa Smart的观点，“与难相处的作者打交道”。DOI: 10.3897 / ese.2020.e52201

European Science Editing Pub Date : 2020-10-20 DOI: 10.3897/ese.2020.e58964

European Science Editing

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Suggestions for fortifying the discoverability of papers published in European Science Editing 加强《欧洲科学编辑》论文可发现性的建议

European Science Editing Pub Date : 2020-09-17 DOI: 10.3897/ESE.2020.E57377

J. A. T. Silva

引用次数: 2

An Author’s Editor Reads the “Instructions for Authors” 作者的编辑阅读《作者须知》

European Science Editing Pub Date : 2020-09-02 DOI: 10.3897/ese.2020.e55817

T. A. Lang

引用次数: 2

The Russian Science Citation Index (RSCI): the first three years (2016–2018) 俄罗斯科学引文索引（RSCI）：前三年（2016-2018）

European Science Editing Pub Date : 2020-08-27 DOI: 10.3897/ese.2020.e51051

S. Gorin, A. Koroleva, A. Gerasimov, A. Voronov

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