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Jan 10, 20232 min read

News Feature: Are Impact Factors a Quality Measure?

January 10, 2023, #25 Many universities and many countries use Journal Impact Factors (JIFs) when assessing the quality of publications...

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Dec 13, 20222 min read

News Feature: Fixing Peer Review

December 13, 2022, #24 Olavo B. Amaral wrote in Nature on 23 November 2022 that peer review could be fixed by breaking it into stages:...

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Nov 29, 20222 min read

News Feature: Cross-Country Differences in Predatory Publishing

November 29, 2022, #23 Macháček and Srholec begin their article in MIT’s Quantitative Science Studies (2022) by noting that: “Predatory...

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Nov 22, 20222 min read

News Feature: Guest Editing for Frontiers

November 22, 2022, #22 Serge Horbach, Michael Ochsner, and Wolfgang Kaltenbrunner wrote for a blog from the Centre for Science and...

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Nov 15, 20222 min read

News Feature: Predatory Journals

November 15, 2022, #21 Predatory journals represent a potential risk especially for early-career scholars without any permanent position....

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Nov 8, 20222 min read

News Feature: Sharing Research Data

November 08, 2022, #20 At the ASIS&T Conference in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, Sara Lafia presented “A Natural Language Processing...

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Oct 24, 20222 min read

News Feature: Retraction Delay

October 25, 2022, #19 Complaints about the lag between the discovery of integrity problems and official retractions in journals are not...

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Oct 21, 20222 min read

News Feature: Article Standardisation

Four authors, two from Leiden University in the Netherlands and two from York University in Canada, raise the question in the title of...

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