Use of the Journal Impact Factor in academic review, promotion, and tenure evaluations

EC McKiernan, LA Schimanski, C Muñoz Nieves… - elife, 2019 - elifesciences.org
We analyzed how often and in what ways the Journal Impact Factor (JIF) is currently used in
review, promotion, and tenure (RPT) documents of a representative sample of universities …

[HTML][HTML] The academic, economic and societal impacts of Open Access: an evidence-based review

JP Tennant, F Waldner, DC Jacques, P Masuzzo… - …, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Abstract Ongoing debates surrounding Open Access to the scholarly literature are
multifaceted and complicated by disparate and often polarised viewpoints from engaged …

Discipline-specific open access publishing practices and barriers to change: an evidence-based review

A Severin, M Egger, MP Eve, D Hürlimann - F1000Research, 2020 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background: Many of the discussions surrounding Open Access (OA) revolve around how it
affects publishing practices across different academic disciplines. It was a long-held view …

Academics' behaviors and attitudes towards open access publishing in scholarly journals

J Rowley, F Johnson, L Sbaffi, W Frass… - Journal of the …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
While there is significant progress with policy and a lively debate regarding the potential
impact of open access publishing, few studies have examined academics' behavior and …

[HTML][HTML] The impact of free access to the scientific literature: a review of recent research

PM Davis, WH Walters - Journal of the Medical Library Association …, 2011 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Objectives: The paper reviews recent studies that evaluate the impact of free access (open
access) on the behavior of scientists as authors, readers, and citers in developed and …

Factors influencing researchers' journal selection decisions

J Rowley, L Sbaffi, M Sugden… - Journal of Information …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
The scholarly publication landscape continues to grow in complexity, presenting
researchers with ever-increasing dilemmas regarding journal choice. However, research …

Knowledge sharing in global health research–the impact, uptake and cost of open access to scholarly literature

E Smith, S Haustein, P Mongeon, F Shu… - Health Research Policy …, 2017 - Springer
Abstract Background In 1982, the Annals of Virology published a paper showing how Liberia
has a highly endemic potential of Ebola warning health authorities of the risk for potential …

Open access publishing and author-pays business models: a survey of authors' knowledge and perceptions

S Schroter, L Tite - Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 2006 - journals.sagepub.com
Objectives We aimed to assess journal authors' current knowledge and perceptions of open
access and author-pays publishing. Design An electronic survey. Setting Authors of …

Drivers and obstacles of open access publishing. A qualitative investigation of individual and institutional factors

E Greussing, S Kuballa, M Taddicken… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Open Access (OA) is an evolving publication model that is heavily supported by politics and
science organizations aiming to make scientific knowledge more accessible to a wider …

How is open access publishing going down with early career researchers? An international, multi-disciplinary study

D Nicholas, HR Hamali… - Profesional de …, 2020 - revista.profesionaldelainformacion …
This study explores early career researchers (ECRs) appreciation and utilisation of open
access (OA) publishing. The evidence reported here results from a questionnaire-based …