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{"title":"Status of peer review guidelines in international surgical journals: A cross-sectional survey","authors":"Min Dong,&nbsp;Wenjing Wang,&nbsp;Xuemei Liu,&nbsp;Fang Lei,&nbsp;Yunmei Luo","doi":"10.1002/leap.1624","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/leap.1624","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Aim</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>To gain insight into the current status of peer review guidelines in international surgical journals and to offer guidance for the development of peer review guidelines for surgical journals.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Methods</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>We selected the top 100 journals in the category of ‘Surgery’ according to the Journal Citation Report 2021. We conducted a search of the websites of these journals, and Web of Science, PubMed, other databases, in order to gather the peer review guidelines published by these top 100 journals up until June 30, 2022. Additionally, we analysed the contents of these peer review guidelines.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Results</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Only 52% (52/100) of journals provided guidelines for reviewers. Sixteen peer review guidelines which were published by these 52 surgical journals were included in this study. The contents of these peer review guidelines were classified into 33 items. The most common item was research methodology, which was mentioned by 13 journals (25%, 13/52). Other important items include statistical methodology, mentioned by 11 journals (21.2%), the rationality of figures, tables, and data, mentioned by 11 journals (21.2%), innovation of research, mentioned by nine journals (17.3%), and language expression, readability of papers, ethical review, references, and so forth, mentioned by eight journals (15.4%). Two journals described items for quality assessment of peer review. Forty-three journals offered a checklist to guide reviewers on how to write a review report. Some surgical journals developed peer review guidelines for reviewers with different academic levels, such as professional reviewers and patient/public reviewers. Additionally, some surgical journals provided specific items for different types of papers, such as original articles, reviews, surgical videos, surgical database research, surgery-related outcome measurements, and case reports in their peer review guidelines.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Conclusions</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Key contents of peer review guidelines for the reviewers of surgical journals not only include items relating to reviewing research methodology, statistical methods, figures, tables and data, research innovation, ethical review, but also cover items concerning reviewing surgical videos, surgical database research, surgery-related outcome measurements, instructions on how to write a review report, and guidelines on how to assess quality of peer review.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":51636,"journal":{"name":"Learned Publishing","volume":"37 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/leap.1624","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142524865","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Transformative agreements, publication venues and Open Access policies at the University of Milan","authors":"Laura Berni,&nbsp;Francesco Zucchini","doi":"10.1002/leap.1627","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/leap.1627","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Starting from July 2020 at the University of Milan, one of the largest and most important Italian universities, the first transformative agreements with some major international scientific publishers have come into effect. These agreements allow corresponding authors to publish in open access without directly bearing the publication costs. From the perspective of corresponding authors, these agreements could increase the dissemination of their scientific output and, thereby, the impact on the scientific community. However, transformative agreements are part of a rapidly changing publishing market that already includes open access articles in both so-called ‘Diamond’ and ‘Gold’ journals. The aim of our study is to understand to what extent the positioning of journals in impact rankings, the disciplinary field of the article, together with the career stage of the corresponding author, influence the choice to publish in a journal covered by transformative agreements rather than in other open access or hybrid journals. The results of our investigation draw attention to the importance of rules in Italy governing scientific careers in different disciplinary fields and potential unforeseen effects of policies favouring open access.</p>","PeriodicalId":51636,"journal":{"name":"Learned Publishing","volume":"37 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/leap.1627","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142524869","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Obvious artificial intelligence-generated anomalies in published journal articles: A call for enhanced editorial diligence","authors":"Bashar Haruna Gulumbe","doi":"10.1002/leap.1626","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/leap.1626","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;In the last decade, artificial intelligence (AI) has revolutionized virtually every aspect of our lives, marking a transformative era of technological advancement and integration (Bohr &amp; Memarzadeh, &lt;span&gt;2020&lt;/span&gt;; Verganti et al., &lt;span&gt;2020&lt;/span&gt;). From the way we interact with our devices through voice-activated assistants, to the convenience of personalized recommendations on streaming services, AI has seamlessly woven itself into the fabric of daily existence. This pervasive influence of AI extends beyond everyday consumer technology, profoundly impacting sectors such as healthcare (Rajpurkar et al., &lt;span&gt;2022&lt;/span&gt;), where algorithms diagnose diseases with unprecedented accuracy, and transportation (Bharadiya, &lt;span&gt;2023&lt;/span&gt;), with the advent of autonomous vehicles reshaping notions of mobility and safety.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This widespread integration of AI has not spared the field of academic publishing (Ganjavi et al., &lt;span&gt;2024&lt;/span&gt;), where its influence has instigated a series of challenges and potential pitfalls. The introduction of AI into research and writing processes, intended to facilitate and enhance the arduous tasks of data analysis and literature review, has instead opened a Pandora's box of issues. Among the most significant concerns are ethical and practical issues related to the application of AI in publication (Ganjavi et al., &lt;span&gt;2024&lt;/span&gt;; Samuel et al., &lt;span&gt;2021&lt;/span&gt;). Recognizing these dynamics, the STM report (&lt;span&gt;2023&lt;/span&gt;) offers practical guidelines tailored specifically for the use of generative AI within this field. It clearly differentiates the roles of generative AI, from its simple use as an authorial aid, which necessitates no further reporting, to its more advanced implementations. Moreover, universities and publishers globally are developing policies to govern the use of generative AI in academic writing. These guidelines are crafted to steer authors through the intricate and diverse applications of AI, ensuring that its advantages are maximized while effectively mitigating potential risks (Gulumbe et al., &lt;span&gt;2024&lt;/span&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Despite these guidelines, the academic community has witnessed the troubling emergence of clear AI-generated anomalies within published articles (Wong, &lt;span&gt;2024&lt;/span&gt;). Such instances serve as a stark reminder of the fine balance between leveraging AI for its undeniable benefits and the imperative need for the academic community to address AI-related discrepancies. These discrepancies not only undermine the integrity of scholarly work but also pose a threat to the foundational principles of academic rigour and trust.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The crux of the issue lies not in the use of AI &lt;i&gt;per se&lt;/i&gt; but in the apparent lack of editorial oversight that has allowed evidently flawed AI-generated content to slip through the rigorous checks and balances of the peer-review process. Recent events underline this concern, illuminating a dire need for the implementation of more strin","PeriodicalId":51636,"journal":{"name":"Learned Publishing","volume":"37 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/leap.1626","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142524534","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The impact of AI on the post-pandemic generation of early career researchers: What we know or can predict from the published literature","authors":"Eti Herman,&nbsp;David Nicholas,&nbsp;Abdullah Abrizah,&nbsp;Jorge Revez,&nbsp;Blanca Rodríguez-Bravo,&nbsp;Marzena Swigon,&nbsp;David Clark,&nbsp;Jie Xu,&nbsp;Anthony Watkinson","doi":"10.1002/leap.1623","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/leap.1623","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This extensive literature review is not a stand-alone paper, as it was conducted to help set the scene for the third and current stage of the Harbinger of Change project (H-3), which is focusing on the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on early career researchers (ECRs). Its purpose is to inform the design, scope and question-forming of the ongoing interview project (2024–). The overarching aim of the review is to establish what we know of the already extant and/or predicted opportunities and challenges that AI-driven technologies present to researchers, in general, and the cohort of junior researchers among them, in particular. It was found that very little empirical evidence exists of what is happening to ECRs on the ground, and that tends to be drowned in a sea of forecasts and prognostications. However, down the road there are clear benefits accruing to ECRs and, arguably, the most appealing for novice researchers must be the benefits of enhancing their productivity, the key to all scholarly rewards, inclusive of career advancement.</p>","PeriodicalId":51636,"journal":{"name":"Learned Publishing","volume":"37 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142524569","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Defining the early career researcher: A study of publication-based definitions","authors":"Tove Faber Frandsen,&nbsp;Jeppe Nicolaisen","doi":"10.1002/leap.1621","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/leap.1621","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Studies of early career researchers need to define and operationalize what qualifies as an early career researcher. Regrettably, consensus on this matter remains elusive, leading to the emergence of diverse approaches in the literature. This study provides an overview of the various ways this concept has been defined and operationalized in previous studies. Four publication-based approaches are identified and tested with the purpose of exploring the possible consequences arising from different publication-based definitions for early career researchers. The four proxies for defining an early career researcher are tested using two samples of authors having published in the fields of library and information science (LIS) and economics. The share of early career researchers seems to be decreasing over time although it depends on the field and definition. The four approaches return quite different results. In LIS, the four different definitions are highly correlated and therefore depict similar pictures over time. This is not the case in Economics, indicating that the choice of approach when defining an early career researcher may have an impact on the results of the analysis in this field. Defining early career researchers through proxies may influence the outcomes of the study, emphasizing the importance of thoughtful consideration when formulating the definition.</p>","PeriodicalId":51636,"journal":{"name":"Learned Publishing","volume":"37 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/leap.1621","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142525692","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Regional spillover effect of 2022 sanctions against Russia on scholarly publications","authors":"Aliya Kuzhabekova","doi":"10.1002/leap.1619","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/leap.1619","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article explores the spillover effects of economic sanctions against Russia on research in neighbouring countries. The assumption of the paper is that such effects should take place given the high level of regional integration in the post-Soviet area. The study uses bibliometric data retrieved from the Web of Science for analysis; more specifically, the data on publications during 2019, 2021 and 2023 from each of the four countries of interest – Kazakhstan, Belarus, Ukraine and Russia. The data was analysed using descriptive statistics and graphs. The results clearly point to the potential presence of negative externalities of economic sanctions on research systems of neighbouring countries not directly involved in the war. The paper discusses implications of the effects and recommendations, which can be used by policy makers to alleviate the effects on the neighbouring countries and by scholars to further investigate the phenomenon.</p>","PeriodicalId":51636,"journal":{"name":"Learned Publishing","volume":"37 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/leap.1619","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142525540","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"From serials crisis to dollar crisis: The compelling evidence against APC-based open access in sub-Saharan Africa countries","authors":"Idowu Adegbilero-Iwari","doi":"10.1002/leap.1620","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/leap.1620","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>\u0000 </p><ul>\u0000 \u0000 <li>The article processing charges (APC)-based model of open access has constituted a major obstacle to achieving open access in developing countries.</li>\u0000 \u0000 <li>High exchange rates of local currencies to the dollar make sustaining the APC open access model impractical.</li>\u0000 \u0000 <li>Other approaches should be used to achieve equitable and inclusive open access.</li>\u0000 </ul>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":51636,"journal":{"name":"Learned Publishing","volume":"37 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142524840","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A matter of research integrity: The reporting of statistical software used in studies published in nursing journals in 2023","authors":"Åsa Hedlund,&nbsp;Magnus Lindberg","doi":"10.1002/leap.1622","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/leap.1622","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The field of nursing has consistently upheld a strong sense of ethical awareness, which can be assumed to be reflected in the performance of nursing research. Adhering to sound research principles involves prioritizing research integrity. This entails being clear and open in detailing the methods used, allowing others to have confidence in both the methods and the resulting outcomes. This methodological review aimed to provide an overview of how statistical software programs have been reported in nursing studies. We screened articles published in the year 2023 in the five top-ranking and the five bottom-ranking nursing journals and found 311 that were eligible for this review; that is, quantitative/mixed-methods/meta-analyses. The most commonly used statistical software programs in these articles was IBM SPSS Statistics, followed by R. However, one out of 10 studies did not report the software used. Among those that reported the software, the software version was not always reported. Our findings suggest that there is insufficient reporting on the statistical software used for analysing quantitative data in nursing journal publications. From a perspective of maintaining research integrity, this presents an issue, as it jeopardizes transparency, sincerity, and, consequently, the ability to replicate methods and have confidence in the results.</p>","PeriodicalId":51636,"journal":{"name":"Learned Publishing","volume":"37 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/leap.1622","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142524672","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A cross-domain analysis of research performance: Conventional and altmetric indicators in Medicine, Physical Sciences, and Social Sciences","authors":"Manjula Wijewickrema","doi":"10.1002/leap.1618","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/leap.1618","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Comparing research performance across distinct subject domains is not recommended unless proper treatments are applied to normalize the domain-specific characteristics. Except for limited research aimed at exploring the field-dependent behaviours of specific research performance indicators, it is difficult to find comprehensive research examining both conventional and altmetric indicators for their influence on journals, articles, and authors in distinct subject domains. This research used Scopus and PlumX as sources to collect conventional and altmetric data, respectively. In addition to descriptive statistics, the Mann–Whitney <i>U</i> test, cluster plots, and correlation analysis were employed for data analysis. The results reveal that all three levels of indicators behave in notably different ways in Medicine compared with that of the Physical and Social Sciences. Most indicators in all three levels attain higher maximum and average values in Medicine. For instance, the maximum values for most indicators, except for citations and documents, are significantly higher in Medicine than in the Physical and Social Sciences. However, the citations and productivity of Physical Sciences journals surpass the two in other domains. SNIP deviates lightly across subject domains compared with that of other journal-level indicators. Further, citations do not have a large influence on SNIP and SJR as they do Journal Impact Factor and CiteScore. All article-level indicators show significant differences between Medicine and the Physical Sciences. Between the Physical and Social Sciences, all indicators except page count show significant differences. Further, article-level indicators in the Social Sciences behave in nearly the same way as in the Physical Sciences. Citation counts positively influence captures. In addition, Medicine authors are likely to make more impact and be more productive in their field than authors in other fields. Collaboration was also found to improve both the productivity of authors and the impact of their research, irrespective of the domain they work in. These findings are important to authors, research evaluators, and publishers from different viewpoints. Discouraging performance comparisons based on raw indicator values can protect researchers from inaccurate assessments, enabling them to fully realize their potential for conducting cutting-edge research. Finally, this research indicates different directions along which this area of research can be extended.</p>","PeriodicalId":51636,"journal":{"name":"Learned Publishing","volume":"37 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142524639","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Purchase and publish: Early career researchers and open access publishing costs","authors":"David Nicholas,&nbsp;Jorge Revez,&nbsp;Abdullah Abrizah,&nbsp;Blanca Rodríguez-Bravo,&nbsp;Cherifa Boukacem-Zeghmouri,&nbsp;David Clark,&nbsp;Jie Xu,&nbsp;Marzena Swigon,&nbsp;Anthony Watkinson,&nbsp;Hamid R. Jamali,&nbsp;Eti Herman","doi":"10.1002/leap.1617","DOIUrl":"10.1002/leap.1617","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper comes from the third stage (H-3) of the long-running <i>Harbingers of Change</i> project (2015), which has investigated the scholarly communication beliefs and practices of early career researchers (ECRs) for a decade. The first stage (H-1) focussed on generational (Millennial) change; the second (H-2) on the impact of COVID; and, currently, the third stage (H-3) on AI and its impact. While each stage has a particular focus all stages also asked questions about wider scholarly communications. This paper re-examines an important finding found in H-1 and backed by H-2, which was that ECRs thought article processing charges were a major barrier to publishing open access (OA). Since then, OA has become more complex with more models available and a huge body of OA journals to navigate, so it is time to return to the topic. Data were obtained from China, France, Malaysia, Poland, Portugal and Spain about national guidelines and practices with 62 ECRs interviewed in-depth. The findings indicate that ECRs are encountering challenges, or dilemmas in OA publishing. More precisely, they struggle with issues surrounding cost perceptions and understanding within the intricate academic publishing environment.</p>","PeriodicalId":51636,"journal":{"name":"Learned Publishing","volume":"37 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141658288","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}