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The aim of SciELO in Perspective blog is to share information and knowledge oriented to the development of scientific communication, in particular, of the SciELO journals, SciELO national collections and the SciELO Program and Network. It also promotes the open access movement to scientific knowledge. The prospect is that the blog become a reference vehicle to the community related to SciELO and to the communication and evaluation of scientific research. The blog will cover topics related to scientific communication, eg. indexing of journals, bibliometrics, scientometrics, management of journals and their editorial processes, training and updating in academic publishing, marketing and dissemination, social networks, public policies on research and scholarly communication, open access, etc.. The SciELO in Perspective blog is open to contributions from publishers, researchers, and information and communication science professionals and students. You can be an occasional or systematic collaborator submitting articles, review articles, assays, news and comments.
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- May 26, 2017
- 01:14 PM
- 1,140 views
How to find articles in open access – tips from my favorite nerd
by SciELO in SciELO in Perspective
Scholarly communication available online, whether in journals or repositories, adds up to millions, and this figure grows every year. What browser efficient tools are available to researchers, librarians, students, and the like to find the open-access versions of the articles that interest them? … Read More →... Read more »
Jamali, H. (2017) Copyright compliance and infringement in ResearchGate full-text journal articles. Scientometrics. DOI: 10.1007/s11192-017-2291-4
- May 10, 2017
- 05:29 PM
- 405 views
Gender disparities in science persist despite significant advances
by SciELO in SciELO in Perspective
The participation of women as authors in academic publications has been increasing significantly worldwide and in all areas of knowledge, reaching 49% in Brazil and Portugal, followed by Australia (44%) and the European Union (41%). Gender equity in science, however, still has a long way to go, especially in the editing and peer review functions. A study of more than 41,000 articles published between 2007 and 2015 shows that male editors - who are majority - preferentially select same gender ref........ Read more »
Markus Helmer, Manuel Schottdorf, Andreas Neef, & Demian Battaglia. (2017) Gender bias in scholarly peer review. eLife. DOI: 10.7554/eLife.21718.001
Ross, E. (2017) Gender bias distorts peer review across fields. Nature. DOI: 10.1038/nature.2017.21685
Lerback, J., & Hanson, B. (2017) Journals invite too few women to referee. Nature, 541(7638), 455-457. DOI: 10.1038/541455a
- May 2, 2017
- 11:20 AM
- 415 views
Openness is the only quality of an academic article that can be objectively measured
by SciELO in SciELO in Perspective
Quality of scientific research articles is a widespread preoccupation in academic circles. The most used proxy is based on citation counts, not of the article itself, but of the averages of articles appearing in the same journal during a given time window. This is known as the Journal Impact Factor, which may be objective within its own definition, but utterly lacks objectivity with regard to scientific quality of individual articles. Only some technical qualities of articles can be assessed at ........ Read more »
Fanelli, D. (2009) How Many Scientists Fabricate and Falsify Research? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Survey Data. PLoS ONE, 4(5). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0005738
Editorial. (2005) Not-so-deep impact. Nature, 435(7045), 1003-1004. DOI: 10.1038/4351003b
Velho, L. (1986) The “meaning” of citation in the context of a scientifically peripheral country. Scientometrics, 9(1-2), 71-89. DOI: 10.1007/BF02016609
Jalalian M. (2015) The story of fake impact factor companies and how we detected them. Electronic physician, 7(2), 1069-72. PMID: 26120416
- April 25, 2017
- 02:46 PM
- 492 views
Editors of Brazilian journals – a hard life that is getting harder! [Originally published as the editorial in Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências vol. 89 no. 1]
by SciELO in SciELO in Perspective
The financing of journals of Brazil can be improved by extending the validity period of research grants, in order to allow publishers a better plan for articles publication. An editorial written by Alexander Kellner in the first issue of 2017 of Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências examines the challenge faced by editors of journals of Brazil and highlights their hard work in attracting relevant manuscripts, seeking to achieve ever greater levels of excellence and internationalization. R........ Read more »
CORDEIRO, Y., & SCHUCK, P. (2015) Hot Topics in Biomedical Sciences. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 87(2), 1271-1272. DOI: 10.1590/0001-376520158722
Kellner, A., & Ponciano, L. (2008) H-index in the Brazilian Academy of Sciences: comments and concerns. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 80(4), 771-781. DOI: 10.1590/S0001-37652008000400016
Madeira, R., & Marenco, A. (2016) Os desafios da internacionalização: mapeando dinâmicas e rotas da circulação internacional. Revista Brasileira de Ciência Política, 47-74. DOI: 10.1590/0103-335220161903
Meneghini, R., Packer, A., & Nassi-Calò, L. (2008) Articles by Latin American Authors in Prestigious Journals Have Fewer Citations. PLoS ONE, 3(11). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003804
Oliveira Filho, R., Hochman, B., Nahas, F., & Ferreira, L. (2005) Fomento à publicação científica e proteção do conhecimento científico. Acta Cirurgica Brasileira. DOI: 10.1590/S0102-86502005000800009
Packer, A. (2011) Os periódicos brasileiros e a comunicação da pesquisa nacional. Revista USP, 26. DOI: 10.11606/issn.2316-9036.v0i89p26-61
Rego, T. (2014) Produtivismo, pesquisa e comunicação científica: entre o veneno e o remédio. Educação e Pesquisa, 40(2), 325-346. DOI: 10.1590/S1517-97022014061843
Van Noorden R. (2013) Open access: The true cost of science publishing. Nature, 495(7442), 426-9. PMID: 23538808
Vasconcelos, S., Sorenson, M., Watanabe, E., Foguel, D., & Palácios, M. (2015) Brazilian Science and Research Integrity: Where are We? What Next?. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 87(2), 1259-1269. DOI: 10.1590/0001-3765201520150165
KELLNER, A. (2017) Editors of Brazilian journals - a hard life that is getting harder!. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 89(1), 1-2. DOI: 10.1590/0001-37652017891
- April 7, 2017
- 03:18 PM
- 555 views
Are we in the GSM Radar?
by SciELO in SciELO in Perspective
Google Scholar Metrics (GSM) offers alternative metrics to the JCR Impact Factor and the SJR, namely the h-5 index. To enter this world ranking that covers more than 40,000 journals it is only necessary to publish an average of 20 articles per year and be cited. However, there are hundreds of journals (our journals) that are not being indexed in GSM. They're off Radar. … Read More →... Read more »
Enrique Ordua-Malea, Alberto Martín-Martín, Juan M. Ayllón, & Emilio Delgado López Cozar. (2016) La revolución Google Scholar: destapando la caja de Pandora académica. Universidad de Granada. info:/
- March 31, 2017
- 06:07 PM
- 510 views
I wrote this… I did not write this… now I write something else…
by SciELO in SciELO in Perspective
The emerging system of online scholarly communication incorporates a technological and ideologically approach different from the traditional one, where the articles initially appear as preprints versions and are modified until reaching the final version. In case of errors, these same technologies provide efficient opportunities to make partial or total corrections and even retractions, associating to the path of a document the history of its versions. It is time, therefore, to establish methodol........ Read more »
Virginia Barbour, Theodora Bloom, Jennifer Lin, & Elizabeth Moylan. (2017) Amending published articles: time to rethink retractions and corrections?. bioRxiv. DOI: 10.1101/118356
- March 14, 2017
- 02:30 PM
- 515 views
Internationalization as an indicator of journal performance in Brazil: the case of Psychology
by SciELO in SciELO in Perspective
The path to strengthening scientific publications almost always goes through internationalization. Publishing in English, however, is not enough to reach a truly global audience and indices comparable to the most prestigious journals. A study on the degree of internationalization of Brazilian psychology journals shows how to walk this path. … Read More →... Read more »
Fradkin, C. (2017) The Internationalization of Psychology Journals in Brazil: A Bibliometric Examination Based on Four Indices. Paidéia (Ribeirão Preto), 27(66), 7-15. DOI: 10.1590/1982-43272766201702
Gamba, E., Packer, A., & Meneghini, R. (2015) Pathways to Internationalize Brazilian Journals of Psychology. Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica, 66-71. DOI: 10.1590/1678-7153.20152840010
Menandro, P., Linhares, M., Bastos, A., & Dell'Aglio, D. (2015) The Brazilian Psychology Postgraduate System and the Internationalization Process: Critical Aspects, Evaluation Indicators and Challenges for Consolidation. Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica, 57-65. DOI: 10.1590/1678-7153.2015284009
Meneghini, R., & Packer, A. (2007) Is there science beyond English? Initiatives to increase the quality and visibility of non-English publications might help to break down language barriers in scientific communication. EMBO reports, 8(2), 112-116. DOI: 10.1038/sj.embor.7400906
Meneghini, R. (2013) SciELO, Scientific Electronic Library Online, a Database of Open Access Journals. Higher Learning Research Communications, 3(3), 3. DOI: 10.18870/hlrc.v3i3.153
- March 3, 2017
- 03:18 PM
- 485 views
In memoriam: Eugene Garfield – 1925-2017
by SciELO in SciELO in Perspective
The father of Scientometrics died at 91 years old on February 27, 2017 leaving a production of more than 1.000 papers and communications over 60 years of research. … Read More →... Read more »
Price, D. (1976) A general theory of bibliometric and other cumulative advantage processes. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 27(5), 292-306. DOI: 10.1002/asi.4630270505
Stephen J. Bensman. (2013) Eugene Garfield, Francis Narin, and PageRank: The Theoretical Bases of the Google Search Engine. arXiv. arXiv: 1312.3872v1
- February 22, 2017
- 08:03 AM
- 558 views
SciELO Preprints on the way
by SciELO in SciELO in Perspective
The main objective of SciELO Preprints is to speeding up the availability of research results and will contribute to an organized flow of potentially acceptable preprints by SciELO journals, in line with the advances and growing importance of preprints publication internationally. The cooperative construction of the SciELO Preprints modus operandi will encompass the promotion and debate of the preprints concept, the definition of governance and operations structures and the operational implement........ Read more »
Berg, J., Bhalla, N., Bourne, P., Chalfie, M., Drubin, D., Fraser, J., Greider, C., Hendricks, M., Jones, C., Kiley, R.... (2016) Preprints for the life sciences. Science, 352(6288), 899-901. DOI: 10.1126/science.aaf9133
Callaway E. (2017) Heavyweight funders back central site for life-sciences preprints. Nature, 542(7641), 283-284. PMID: 28202994
Ginsparg, P. (2016) Preprint Déjà Vu. The EMBO Journal, 35(24), 2620-2625. DOI: 10.15252/embj.201695531
Pulverer, B. (2016) Preparing for Preprints. The EMBO Journal, 35(24), 2617-2619. DOI: 10.15252/embj.201670030
Vale, R. (2015) Accelerating scientific publication in biology. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112(44), 13439-13446. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1511912112
- February 8, 2017
- 03:05 PM
- 590 views
Assessment of reproducibility in research results leads to more questions than answers
by SciELO in SciELO in Perspective
The ‘Reproducibility Project: Cancer Biology’ initiative that has the purpose of assessing the reproducibility of preclinical research in Oncology was launched in 2013 as the result of a collaboration between the Center for Open Science and Science Exchange. The first results of the replication studies have just been published, however, their interpretation requires a careful approach. … Read More →... Read more »
Nosek, B., & Errington, T. (2017) Making sense of replications. eLife. DOI: 10.7554/eLife.23383
Baker, M. (2016) 1,500 scientists lift the lid on reproducibility. Nature, 533(7604), 452-454. DOI: 10.1038/533452a
Baker, M. (2012) Independent labs to verify high-profile papers. Nature. DOI: 10.1038/nature.2012.11176
Begley, C., & Ellis, L. (2012) Drug development: Raise standards for preclinical cancer research. Nature, 483(7391), 531-533. DOI: 10.1038/483531ª
Prinz, F., Schlange, T., & Asadullah, K. (2011) Believe it or not: how much can we rely on published data on potential drug targets?. Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 10(9), 712-712. DOI: 10.1038/nrd3439-c1
None. (2017) The challenges of replication. eLife. DOI: 10.7554/eLife.23693
- February 1, 2017
- 02:58 PM
- 855 views
Preprints – the way forward for rapid and open knowledge sharing
by SciELO in SciELO in Perspective
Preprints – versions of academic articles that have not yet been formally peer-reviewed before publication – are gaining acceptance in the academic world. They deliver open access as well as speedy publication, and their decades old success in physics has spurred on their spread in other disciplines. The development of preprints is accelerating; important funding agencies are in support of them, and also SciELO is planning to set up a preprint server for authors in Latin America and the Glob........ Read more »
Helena Cousijn,, Amye Kenall,, Emma Ganley,, Melissa Harrison,, David Kernohan,, Fiona Murphy,, Patrick Polischuk,, Maryann Martone,, & Timothy Clark. (2017) A Data Citation Roadmap for Scientific Publishers. bioRχiv. DOI: 10.1101/100784
CHAWLA, D.S. (2017) When a preprint becomes the final paper. Nature. info:/
- January 24, 2017
- 07:42 AM
- 572 views
Study assesses financing sources of open-access article processing charge
by SciELO in SciELO in Perspective
Is there a correlation between article processing charge (APC) and the journals' Impact Factor? What are the funding sources for payment and how do they influence the choice of journals for publication? These and other questions were investigated by authors from Nanjing University, China and the results explain the peculiarity of open access in different countries. … Read More →... Read more »
MADHAN, M., KIMIDI, S. S., GUNASEKARAN S., & ARUNACHALAM S. (2016) Should Indian researchers pay to get their work published?. ePrints@IISc. info:/
WANG, L. L., LIU, X. Z., & FANG, H. (2015) Investigation of the degree to which papers supported by research grants are published in open access health and life sciences journals. Scientometrics, 104(2), 511-528. info:/10.1007/s11192-015-1624-4
- January 16, 2017
- 01:50 PM
- 606 views
Five things to consider when designing a policy to measure research impact [Originally published in The Conversation]
by SciELO in SciELO in Perspective
The move of the Australian government to measure the impact of university research on society introduces many new challenges that were not previously relevant when evaluation focused solely on academic merit. … Read More →... Read more »
Gunn, A., & Mintrom, M. (2016) Higher Education Policy Change in Europe: Academic Research Funding and the Impact Agenda. European Education, 48(4), 241-257. DOI: 10.1080/10564934.2016.1237703
Morris ZS, Wooding S, & Grant J. (2011) The answer is 17 years, what is the question: understanding time lags in translational research. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 104(12), 510-20. PMID: 22179294
- January 10, 2017
- 08:24 AM
- 609 views
Adoption of open peer review is increasing
by SciELO in SciELO in Perspective
In analyzing how the 'peer review' institution has emerged and evolved, it is possible to understand the current transition the assessment process is going through towards greater openness, transparency and accountability. … Read More →... Read more »
Csiszar, A. (2016) Peer review: Troubled from the start. Nature, 532(7599), 306-308. DOI: 10.1038/532306a
Callaway, E. (2016) Open peer review finds more takers. Nature, 539(7629), 343-343. DOI: 10.1038/nature.2016.20969
- November 29, 2016
- 02:36 PM
- 640 views
Open Access article processing charges: a new serial publication crisis?
by SciELO in SciELO in Perspective
The financial and ethical implications that emerge from open access publishing through article processing fees in India are analyzed in a study that proposes the creation of a national open access journal platform such as SciELO in order to reduce costs, increase efficiency and facilitate the sharing of metadata among repositories. … Read More →... Read more »
Morrison, H., Salhab, J., Calvé-Genest, A., & Horava, T. (2015) Open Access Article Processing Charges: DOAJ Survey May 2014. Publications, 3(1), 1-16. DOI: 10.3390/publications3010001
ROORYCK, J. (2016) Introducing Glossa. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, 1(1). DOI: 10.5334/gjgl.91
Wang, L., Liu, X., & Fang, H. (2015) Investigation of the degree to which articles supported by research grants are published in open access health and life sciences journals. Scientometrics, 104(2), 511-528. DOI: 10.1007/s11192-015-1624-4
- November 4, 2016
- 10:13 AM
- 700 views
Study shows that articles published in English attract more citations
by SciELO in SciELO in Perspective
Among the many factors that influence citation practice in scholarly communication, the language of publication plays a key role. A study by Argentine researchers showed that English articles receive more citations than those published in other languages. Despite being perceived by many as of lower quality and relevance, articles in Spanish from two Latin American journals were blind evaluated and were not, in fact, underqualified. … Read More →... Read more »
Di Bitetti, M., & Ferreras, J. (2016) Publish (in English) or perish: The effect on citation rate of using languages other than English in scientific publications. Ambio. DOI: 10.1007/s13280-016-0820-7
Meneghini, R., Packer, A., & Nassi-Calò, L. (2008) Articles by Latin American Authors in Prestigious Journals Have Fewer Citations. PLoS ONE, 3(11). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003804
Letchford, A., Moat, H., & Preis, T. (2015) The advantage of short paper titles. Royal Society Open Science, 2(8), 150266. DOI: 10.1098/rsos.150266
Meneghini, R., & Packer, A. (2007) Is there science beyond English? Initiatives to increase the quality and visibility of non-English publications might help to break down language barriers in scientific communication. EMBO reports, 8(2), 112-116. DOI: 10.1038/sj.embor.7400906
- October 20, 2016
- 02:00 PM
- 693 views
Is the reproducibility crisis exacerbated by pre-publication peer review?
by SciELO in SciELO in Perspective
A lack of scrutiny of articles published in peer-reviewed journals on the basis of a belief that pre-publication peer-review provides sufficient scrutiny, may well add to the relatively high number of articles in which results are presented that cannot be replicated. … Read More →... Read more »
Baker, M. (2016) 1,500 scientists lift the lid on reproducibility. Nature, 533(7604), 452-454. DOI: 10.1038/533452a
- October 14, 2016
- 03:21 PM
- 656 views
Is it possible to normalize citation metrics?
by SciELO in SciELO in Perspective
Bibliometric indicators represent much more than an indication of the visibility, relevance and impact of an article. A researcher’s entire career profile can be summarized in one or more numerical productivity and impact indicators of his research. However, citation metrics vary considerably according to the area of knowledge, the publication age, the type of document and the coverage of the database where citations were accrued. Is it possible to normalize them? Here we discuss the challenge........ Read more »
Ioannidis, J., Boyack, K., & Wouters, P. (2016) Citation Metrics: A Primer on How (Not) to Normalize. PLOS Biology, 14(9). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002542
BLOWFIELD, M., & FRYNAS, J. (2005) Editorial Setting new agendas: critical perspectives on Corporate Social Responsibility in the developing world. International Affairs, 81(3), 499-513. DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2346.2005.00465.x
Ball, P. (2015) Science papers rarely cited in negative ways. Nature. DOI: 10.1038/nature.2015.18643
Hutchins, B., Yuan, X., Anderson, J., & Santangelo, G. (2016) Relative Citation Ratio (RCR): A New Metric That Uses Citation Rates to Measure Influence at the Article Level. PLOS Biology, 14(9). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002541
Ioannidis, J., Boyack, K., Small, H., Sorensen, A., & Klavans, R. (2014) Bibliometrics: Is your most cited work your best?. Nature, 514(7524), 561-562. DOI: 10.1038/514561a
- August 24, 2016
- 06:05 PM
- 865 views
Theses and dissertations: pros and cons of the traditional and alternative formats
by SciELO in SciELO in Perspective
In order to expedite the writing and assessment of theses, institutions and graduate programs in several countries, including Brazil, are choosing to allow candidates who have published papers on their masters or doctorate research topics to replace the thesis chapters by these articles, headed by an introduction, conclusion and review of scientific literature. Is this format ideal and applicable to all? … Read More →... Read more »
Editorial. (2016) The past, present and future of the PhD thesis. Nature, 535(7610), 7-7. DOI: 10.1038/535007a
Gould, J. (2016) What’s the point of the PhD thesis?. Nature, 535(7610), 26-28. DOI: 10.1038/535026a
Burrough-Boenisch, J. (2016) PhD thesis: Being more open about PhD papers. Nature, 536(7616), 274-274. DOI: 10.1038/536274b
- August 17, 2016
- 04:17 PM
- 782 views
How do researchers and journalists in Brazil relate to each other?
by SciELO in SciELO in Perspective
Scientists admit that dealing with complex issues related to their research with journalists is not an easy task. However, long they realized that communicate their results in scientific journals is not enough. To obtain research grants, attract collaboration opportunities and for career advancement, it is necessary - and advisable - to communicate with the public through journalists. Read about the details of this relationship and what can be done to improve it. … Read More →... Read more »
Peters, H., Brossard, D., de Cheveigne, S., Dunwoody, S., Kallfass, M., Miller, S., & Tsuchida, S. (2008) SCIENCE COMMUNICATION: Interactions with the Mass Media. Science, 321(5886), 204-205. DOI: 10.1126/science.1157780
MASSARANI, L., & PETERS, H. (2016) Scientists in the public sphere: Interactions of scientists and journalists in Brazil. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 88(2), 1165-1175. DOI: 10.1590/0001-3765201620150558
Peters, H. (2013) Gap between science and media revisited: Scientists as public communicators. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 110(Supplement_3), 14102-14109. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1212745110
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