Joan E. Dodgson, Ethan T. Bamberger, Zelalem T. Haile, Mary Kate J. Kornegay
{"title":"Editorial actions taken to reduce publishing references from predatory sources: A case study","authors":"Joan E. Dodgson, Ethan T. Bamberger, Zelalem T. Haile, Mary Kate J. Kornegay","doi":"10.1002/leap.1592","DOIUrl":"10.1002/leap.1592","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>\u0000 </p><ul>\u0000 \u0000 <li>Our policy and implementation successfully identified references from predatory publishers, which authors without hesitation agreed to remove before publication.</li>\u0000 \u0000 <li>Higher predatory reference patterns emerged among authors in low-income countries, those with non-English primary languages, and sole authorship.</li>\u0000 \u0000 <li>After a year of implementing our policy, the editors changed our policy and workflow to better handle references from predatory publishers cited in literature reviews and meta-analyses.</li>\u0000 \u0000 <li>Editorial responsibility is discussed, particularly concerning support for authors from lower- and middle-income countries.</li>\u0000 </ul>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":51636,"journal":{"name":"Learned Publishing","volume":"37 1","pages":"30-38"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/leap.1592","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139533159","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":"Breaking free from academic scams: Five key reflections on the cloned journal conundrum","authors":"Rajadurai Vijay Solomon","doi":"10.1002/leap.1590","DOIUrl":"10.1002/leap.1590","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>\u0000 </p><ul>\u0000 \u0000 <li>Emerging as a novel cybercrime, cloned (or hijacked) journals with identical ISSNs to legitimate ones have surfaced.</li>\u0000 \u0000 <li>These cloned journals employ various tactics, and this article identifies and discusses the top five.</li>\u0000 \u0000 <li>Fraudulent journals primarily focus on print-only publications, using parallel websites to mislead researchers.</li>\u0000 \u0000 <li>Cloned journals are using videos on their homepages to deceitfully showcase indexing in databases like Scopus or Web of Science.</li>\u0000 </ul>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":51636,"journal":{"name":"Learned Publishing","volume":"37 1","pages":"44-48"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/leap.1590","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139153765","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":"How do editors use editorials to lead their journals? Insights from the field of human resource management","authors":"Maria S. Plakhotnik","doi":"10.1002/leap.1591","DOIUrl":"10.1002/leap.1591","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Editorials have earned a special place among many practices, tools, and policies available to editors for journal advancement. Despite the vital and diverse roles of editorials in academic journals, they have rarely been systematically analysed for common characteristics or patterns. In this study, I approached editorials as a leadership practice of journal editors. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to understand how editors use editorials to lead their journals. To render a manageable set of editorials and, at the same time, to capture the latest trends, I focused on editorials published in 2022 in top journals in the field of organizational behaviour/human resource management indexed by Scopus. The sample consisted of 120 editorials found in 103 journals managed by 21 publishers. I analysed the editorials using qualitative content analysis that was guided by two research questions: (1) How commonly do editors use editorials? (2) What objectives do editors pursue in their editorials? The analyses showed that editorials appear to be neither a regular nor a common practice. An overwhelming majority of editorials were written to validate existing knowledge. The findings raise several important issues, including an unclear contribution of editorials, perceived or factual, to academic journals and the editor's role in the journal development process. Journal editors, editorial board members, publishers, universities, and organizations associated with journals should consider revisiting their policies and practices to ensure a purposeful, meaningful, and systematic use of editorials.</p>","PeriodicalId":51636,"journal":{"name":"Learned Publishing","volume":"37 2","pages":"89-97"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139155548","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":"Academic misconduct, fake authorship letters, cyber fraud: Evidence from the International Political Science Review","authors":"Daniel Stockemer, Theresa Reidy","doi":"10.1002/leap.1587","DOIUrl":"10.1002/leap.1587","url":null,"abstract":"<p>\u0000 </p>","PeriodicalId":51636,"journal":{"name":"Learned Publishing","volume":"37 1","pages":"39-43"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/leap.1587","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138956058","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":"Where are the carrots? A proposal to start crediting peer reviewers for their contribution to science","authors":"Aron Laxdal, Tommy Haugen","doi":"10.1002/leap.1589","DOIUrl":"10.1002/leap.1589","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>\u0000 </p><ul>\u0000 \u0000 <li>The peer review system is viewed by many as being flawed and antiquated.</li>\u0000 \u0000 <li>While it is unlikely that the system will be overhauled completely, some changes seem to be warranted.</li>\u0000 \u0000 <li>Our proposal is to change the incentives to do peer review by making reviews a part of the tenure criteria and valuing reviews as a contribution to the literature.</li>\u0000 \u0000 <li>The proposal would require more transparency than is currently the industry norm to prevent unwanted effects.</li>\u0000 \u0000 <li>We believe these changes would not only increase willingness to review, but also lead to shorter turnaround times and increase the quality of reviews.</li>\u0000 </ul>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":51636,"journal":{"name":"Learned Publishing","volume":"37 2","pages":"154-156"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138980123","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":"Alternatives to English only in scholarly publishing: Emerging trends of language policies among non-Anglophone journals?","authors":"Xiangdong Li","doi":"10.1002/leap.1588","DOIUrl":"10.1002/leap.1588","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>\u0000 </p><ul>\u0000 \u0000 <li>Publish in English or perish is becoming a reality in many non-Anglophone countries.</li>\u0000 \u0000 <li>Non-Anglophone journals are facing a dilemma: losing appeal to authors/reviewers if published in local languages or losing linguistic/cultural identity if published in English.</li>\u0000 \u0000 <li>This article analyses language policies those journals may use and positions them on a capital-identity matrix to highlight their advantages and disadvantages.</li>\u0000 \u0000 <li>The article elaborates on two emerging language policies (bilingual publishing and extended English summary), both helping preserve their identity and take advantage of the capital of the English language.</li>\u0000 \u0000 <li>The article provides insights into the pros and cons of different language policies and how to select policies that best support journal survival and development.</li>\u0000 </ul>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":51636,"journal":{"name":"Learned Publishing","volume":"37 2","pages":"130-138"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138588101","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":"Establishing an early indicator for data sharing and reuse","authors":"Agata Piękniewska, Laurel L. Haak, Darla Henderson, Katherine McNeill, Anita Bandrowski, Yvette Seger","doi":"10.1002/leap.1586","DOIUrl":"10.1002/leap.1586","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Funders, publishers, scholarly societies, universities, and other stakeholders need to be able to track the impact of programs and policies designed to advance data sharing and reuse. With the launch of the NIH data management and sharing policy in 2023, establishing a pre-policy baseline of sharing and reuse activity is critical for the biological and biomedical community. Toward this goal, we tested the utility of mentions of research resources, databases, and repositories (RDRs) as a proxy measurement of data sharing and reuse. We captured and processed text from Methods sections of open access biological and biomedical research articles published in 2020 and 2021 and made available in PubMed Central. We used natural language processing to identify text strings to measure RDR mentions. In this article, we demonstrate our methodology, provide normalized baseline data sharing and reuse activity in this community, and highlight actions authors and publishers can take to encourage data sharing and reuse practices.</p>","PeriodicalId":51636,"journal":{"name":"Learned Publishing","volume":"37 1","pages":"22-29"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/leap.1586","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134901707","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}
Alexander Burrell, Daniel Butler, Obioha C. Ukoumunne, Hajira Dambha-Miller
{"title":"Exploring the relationship between traditional bibliometrics and Altmetric scores in the primary care literature","authors":"Alexander Burrell, Daniel Butler, Obioha C. Ukoumunne, Hajira Dambha-Miller","doi":"10.1002/leap.1584","DOIUrl":"10.1002/leap.1584","url":null,"abstract":"<p>There is some evidence that Altmetric scores correlate with citations in medical research, but this is not consistent across different specialties. No previous studies have examined the association between Altmetric score and citations amongst primary care research journals. The aim of this study was therefore to describe this association. We identified the ten most frequently cited articles published in the top 15 highest impact factor primary care research journals. Article and journal metrics were extracted and summarized using descriptive statistics. We used Spearman's correlation coefficient (<i>r</i><sub>s</sub>) and log–log linear regression modelling to examine the relationship between citations and Altmetric score. 150 articles were included with a median of 36.5 (IQR 20–59; range 5–811) citations. We found a positive association between citations and Altmetric score (<i>r</i><sub>s</sub> = 0.519; <i>p</i> < 0.001). A unit increase in log Altmetric score was associated with increased log citations [0.175 (95% CI 0.091–0.259, <i>p</i> < 0.001)] in an adjusted linear regression model. The regression findings indicate that increasing Altmetric score by 10% was associated with a 1.68% increase in citation rate. This has implications for how authors, academic institutions and primary care research journals approach dissemination of articles.</p>","PeriodicalId":51636,"journal":{"name":"Learned Publishing","volume":"37 2","pages":"109-116"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/leap.1584","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135885043","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":"Now you have to pay! A deeper look at publishing practices of predatory journals","authors":"Mark R. Freiermuth","doi":"10.1002/leap.1583","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/leap.1583","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this study, by using Beall's (Scholarly open-access, 2014; Beall's list of predatory journals and publishers, 2018) predatory journal lists as well as direct e-mail solicitations from journals, we intentionally submitted a poorly written manuscript to 58 open-access journals using counterfeit names and affiliations. Although there have been several studies examining the practices of questionable journals, there is a lack of research investigating the interactive processes in detail. Our analysis, then, was to provide a more comprehensive view of the underlying reasoning for the acceptance or rejection of a manuscript. Of the 31 journals acknowledging receipt of our manuscript, 21 accepted it either unexpurgated or asked only for cosmetic revisions. Regarding ‘positive responses’, we point to five common flaws associated with such journals, namely that (1) they lack any interest in the researchers who are submitting manuscripts; (2) they do not judge academic writing in accordance with expected conventions; (3) they appear to be indifferent to scholarship including research design, plagiarism issues, and citation quality; (4) their review process is opaque and overly hasty, and (5) the tone they use in correspondence e-mail messages is highly inappropriate. Based upon the investigation, it is clear that such journals' primary aim is in securing the article processing fee. Our findings paint a more comprehensive picture of questionable journal practices with the hope of disseminating such information to the broader scholarly community.</p>","PeriodicalId":51636,"journal":{"name":"Learned Publishing","volume":"36 4","pages":"667-688"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50148253","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}