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Figueiredo C, Neves AAB, Pimentel F, Pimentel D, Mota-Araujo HP, Bem AFDE, A D Neto B, McManus C. Impact of Open Access Policy on Brazilian Science and Global Trends. AN ACAD BRAS CIENC 2024; 96:e20231068. [PMID: 38865558 DOI: 10.1590/0001-3765202420231068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/23/2023] [Accepted: 02/04/2024] [Indexed: 06/14/2024] Open
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Open access (OA) publishing provides free online access to research articles without subscription fees. In Brazil, absence of financial support from academic institutions and limited government policies pose challenges to OA publication. Here, we used data from the Web of Science and Scopus to compare with global trends in journal accessibility and scientific quality metrics. Brazilian authors publish more OA articles, particularly in Global South journals. While OA correlates with quality for global authors, it had no impact on Brazilian science. To maximize impact, Brazilian authors should prioritize Q1 journals regardless of OA status. High-impact or Global North journal publication seems more relevant for Brazilian science than OA. Our findings indicate that the present open access policy has been ineffective to improve the impact of Brazilian science, providing insights to guide the formulation of scientific public policies.
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- Claudia Figueiredo
- Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Faculdade de Farmácia, Centro de Ciências da Saúde, Rua Carlos Chagas Filho, 373, 21941-902 Rio de Janeiro, RJ Brazil
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- Pontificia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Av. Ipiranga, 6681, Partenon, 90619-900 Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
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- Universidade Anhembi Morumbi, Campus Paulista, Av. Paulista, 2000, Bela Vista, 01310-200 São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Universidade de Brasília, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Campus Darcy Ribeiro, Asa Norte, 70910-900 Brasília, DF, Brazil
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- Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Faculdade de Farmácia, Centro de Ciências da Saúde, Rua Carlos Chagas Filho, 373, 21941-902 Rio de Janeiro, RJ Brazil
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- Universidade de Brasília, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Campus Darcy Ribeiro, Asa Norte, 70910-900 Brasília, DF, Brazil
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- Universidade de Brasília, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Campus Darcy Ribeiro, Asa Norte, 70910-900 Brasília, DF, Brazil
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- Universidade de Brasília, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Campus Darcy Ribeiro, Asa Norte, 70910-900 Brasília, DF, Brazil
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Booth CM, Ross JS, Detsky AS. The Changing Medical Publishing Industry: Economics, Expansion, and Equity. J Gen Intern Med 2023; 38:3242-3246. [PMID: 37438644 PMCID: PMC10651592 DOI: 10.1007/s11606-023-08307-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/07/2023] [Accepted: 06/27/2023] [Indexed: 07/14/2023]
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Medical journal publishing has changed dramatically over the past decade. The shift from print to electronic distribution altered the industry's economic model. This was followed by open access mandates from funding organizations and the subsequent imposition of article processing charges on authors. The medical publishing industry is large and while there is variation across journals, it is overall highly profitable. As journals have moved to digital dissemination, advertising revenues decreased and publishers shifted some of the losses onto authors by way of article processing charges. The number of open access journals has increased substantially in recent years. The open access model presents an equity paradox; while it liberates scientific knowledge for the consumer, it presents barriers to those who produce research. This emerging "pay-to-publish" system offers advantages to authors who work in countries and at institutes with more resources. Finally, the medical publishing industry represents an unusual business model; the people who provide both the content and the external peer review receive no payment from the publisher, who generates revenue from the content. The very unusual economic model of this industry makes it vulnerable to disruptive change. The economic model of medical publishing is rapidly evolving and this will lead to disruption of the industry. These changes will accelerate dissemination of science and may lead to a shift away from lower-impact journals towards pre-print servers.
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- Christopher M Booth
- Departments of Oncology and Public Health Sciences, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada
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- Section of General Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, USA
- Department of Health Policy and Management, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, USA
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- Institute for Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
- Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
- Department of Medicine, Mount Sinai, Toronto, Canada.
- Hospital and University Health Network, Toronto, Canada.
- Mount Sinai Hospital, Room 429, 600 University Ave, Toronto, Ontario, M5N 2N8, Canada.
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Frank J, Foster R, Pagliari C. Open access publishing - noble intention, flawed reality. Soc Sci Med 2023; 317:115592. [PMID: 36481722 DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115592] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2022] [Revised: 11/17/2022] [Accepted: 12/01/2022] [Indexed: 12/03/2022]
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For two decades, the international scholarly publishing community has been embroiled in a divisive debate about the best model for funding the dissemination of scientific research. Some may assume that this debate has been thoroughly resolved in favour of the Open Access (OA) model of scientific publishing. Recent commentaries reveal a less settled reality. This narrative review aims to lay out the nature of these deep divisions among the sector's stakeholders, reflects on their systemic drivers and considers the future prospects for actualising OA's intended benefits and surmounting its risks and costs. In the process, we highlight some of inequities OA presents for junior or unfunded researchers, and academics from resource-poor environments, for whom an increasing body of evidence shows clear evidence of discrimination and injustice caused by Article Processing Charges. The authors are university-appointed researchers working the UK and South Africa, trained in disciplines ranging from medicine and epidemiology to social science and digital science. We have no vested interest in any particular model of scientific publication, and no conflicts of interest to declare. We believe the issues we identify are pertinent to almost all research disciplines.
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- John Frank
- Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK; Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Canada.
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- CEDAR, Dept. of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, South Africa
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Santhanam S, Goyal M. OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHING — “SO NEAR AND YET SO FAR”. CENTRAL ASIAN JOURNAL OF MEDICAL HYPOTHESES AND ETHICS 2022. [DOI: 10.47316/cajmhe.2022.3.4.05] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/16/2023] Open
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Scientific knowledge needs to be widely disseminated across the globe, for it to be critically analyzed or to be built upon for future studies. The conventional publication model has been less accessible due to prohibitive subscription costs and hence the need arose for the open access model where the readers would have free access. The Open Science movement is not only about open-access journals but also includes open source, open data and methodology, open peer review, open-access indexing, and archiving. The prototype open access model is the gold model where researchers (themselves or supported by grants or funding agencies) pay certain article processing charges and the readers have free access to the content without any restrictions. Additionally, there is a need for free-to-use open-access platforms or repositories like PubMed Central to archive the open-access content. Institutional repository is another way for collecting, archiving, and distributing the scholarly contents of an academic institution. Preprint servers allow archiving manuscripts before they are submitted to or undergo review for publication, and they offer an important platform for freely sharing knowledge. While open-access model looks attractive, it has its challenges. Currently, the change to open-access model has meant the transfer of the financial burden, earlier borne by the readers, to the authors in the form of APCs. Irrespective of the model, there is a need to reconsider the high subscription costs and the article processing charges which are often prohibitive for many. Science must be accessible to the researchers and the public at a reasonable cost without delay.
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Wenaas L, Gulbrandsen M. The green, gold grass of home: Introducing open access in universities in Norway. PLoS One 2022; 17:e0273091. [PMID: 35976952 PMCID: PMC9385055 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0273091] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2022] [Accepted: 08/02/2022] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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In this paper, we investigate how open access is reflected and implemented in all Norwegian universities and how they responded to national policy developments for open access in the period 2009–2021. We analyse how the universities adapted arguments for the three core missions of the universities–research, education, and societal impact–when they reacted to increasing pressures to facilitate open access. Our analysis is based on 182 institutional strategy documents, open access policies and annual reports. When considering the profile of the institutional policies and the explicit referrals to national policies, we find there is a great deal of homogeneity between Norwegian universities, and they are mostly aligned with national policy. Open access is connected to the third mission in all university strategies, but often in a very general manner and without documenting benefits for non-academic users. We find limited emphasis on open access as advantageous for education. All universities show commitment to open access, and several can be described as proactive as they tie it to different types of local incentives. Development over time suggests more mature and institutionalised polices that do not challenge what we may call the academic heartland and its core value of academic freedom, including where and how to publish. We propose a framework for analysing similar institutionalisation processes with three main dimensions: mimesis, adaptation/integration with existing practices, and maturation/commitment.
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- Lars Wenaas
- TIK Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- TIK Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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Noble HE, Vega Rivera F, LaGrone L. Barriers and facilitators to answering clinical questions in the Americas: a cross-sectional study of surgical trauma care providers. Trauma Surg Acute Care Open 2021; 6:e000774. [PMID: 34693025 PMCID: PMC8506851 DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2021-000774] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2021] [Accepted: 08/04/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND We aimed to understand how surgical trauma providers in the Americas acquire answers to clinical questions and what barriers and facilitators they face in efforts to practice according to recommendations for common surgical cases. We hypothesized that increased English proficiency and country income improved providers' acquisition and application of clinical knowledge. METHODS A 23-question survey evaluated reported confidence in interpretation of evidence, perceived language fluency, and access to and application of recommendations on sepsis and appendicitis. Electronic surveys were distributed across the Americas to Pan American Trauma Society members. RESULTS 108 participants from 21 countries completed this survey. 59% had ≥21 years of provider experience. 38% reported their English reading comprehension as less than or equal to "limited working proficiency." 44% endorsed using Google Translate; 35% reported they did not need translation tools to evaluate medical literature. 59% felt uncertainty regarding clinical care at least weekly. 65% reported inability to answer their clinical questions at least once per month. 86% felt confident in their ability to interpret and apply evidence for their practice. To answer clinical questions, participants listed guidelines (76%), full-text peer-reviewed journal articles (61%), and meta-analyses (49%) as their most used resources. 25% answered all five clinical questions correctly, whereas 43% answered three or fewer correctly. 79% felt they had adequate access to resources to answer the five clinical questions. When controlling for individual demographic characteristics, decreased age (p<0.01) and increased country income level (p=0.03) positively impacted correct answers to questions. DISCUSSION Uncertainties in clinical care are unavoidable. Language, age, and country income level impacted provider acquisition and application of knowledge relevant to select clinical scenarios. These findings highlight disparities in access and training and add urgency to the movement for improved dissemination and implementation approaches for evidence-based practice in surgery. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE IV.
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- Helen Elizabeth Noble
- University of Maryland Medical System, University of Washington Northern Pacific Global Health Fogarty International Program, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- University of Colorado Health, Aurora, Colorado, USA
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The International Development of Open Access Publishing: A Comparative Empirical Analysis Over Seven World Regions and Nine Academic Disciplines. PUBLISHING RESEARCH QUARTERLY 2021. [DOI: 10.1007/s12109-021-09814-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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AbstractThis paper offers a cross-country and cross-disciplinary analysis of the development of open access publishing from 2000 to 2019. Through an analysis of seven world regions and nine scholarly fields, we found that, while the overall share of open access journals has increased significantly over the last two decades, there are important differences across both the analyzed world regions and disciplines. We also found that, with the exception of neuroscience, the proportion of open access journals is considerably lower among the journals ranked in the Q1 quartile of Scopus than in the general field. We also offer a model that explains the development of open access publishing trends on different disciplinary and geographical levels.
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Olson PD. ‘Going forward’. SYST BIODIVERS 2021. [DOI: 10.1080/14772000.2021.1917286] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Petrak J, Škorić L, Macan B. The impact of Plan S on scholarly journals from less developed European countries. Croat Med J 2021; 62:4-7. [PMID: 33660955 PMCID: PMC7976882] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/20/2023] Open
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- Jelka Petrak
- Central Medical Library, University of Zagreb School of Medicine, Zagreb, Croatia
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- Central Medical Library, University of Zagreb School of Medicine, Zagreb, Croatia
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- Centre for Scientific Information, Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia
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The cost of publishing in an indexed ophthalmology journal in 2019. CANADIAN JOURNAL OF OPHTHALMOLOGY 2020; 55:518-523. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jcjo.2020.06.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2020] [Revised: 05/05/2020] [Accepted: 06/09/2020] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Huang CK(K, Neylon C, Hosking R, Montgomery L, Wilson KS, Ozaygen A, Brookes-Kenworthy C. Evaluating the impact of open access policies on research institutions. eLife 2020; 9:e57067. [PMID: 32924933 PMCID: PMC7536542 DOI: 10.7554/elife.57067] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2020] [Accepted: 09/11/2020] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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The proportion of research outputs published in open access journals or made available on other freely-accessible platforms has increased over the past two decades, driven largely by funder mandates, institutional policies, grass-roots advocacy, and changing attitudes in the research community. However, the relative effectiveness of these different interventions has remained largely unexplored. Here we present a robust, transparent and updateable method for analysing how these interventions affect the open access performance of individual institutes. We studied 1,207 institutions from across the world, and found that, in 2017, the top-performing universities published around 80-90% of their research open access. The analysis also showed that publisher-mediated (gold) open access was popular in Latin American and African universities, whereas the growth of open access in Europe and North America has mostly been driven by repositories.
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- Chun-Kai (Karl) Huang
- Centre for Culture and Technology, School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry, Curtin UniversityPerthAustralia
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- Centre for Culture and Technology, School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry, Curtin UniversityPerthAustralia
- Curtin Institute for Computation, Curtin UniversityPerthAustralia
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- Curtin Institute for Computation, Curtin UniversityPerthAustralia
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- Centre for Culture and Technology, School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry, Curtin UniversityPerthAustralia
- Curtin Institute for Computation, Curtin UniversityPerthAustralia
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- Centre for Culture and Technology, School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry, Curtin UniversityPerthAustralia
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- Centre for Culture and Technology, School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry, Curtin UniversityPerthAustralia
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- Centre for Culture and Technology, School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry, Curtin UniversityPerthAustralia
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Day S, Rennie S, Luo D, Tucker JD. Open to the public: paywalls and the public rationale for open access medical research publishing. RESEARCH INVOLVEMENT AND ENGAGEMENT 2020; 6:8. [PMID: 32161664 PMCID: PMC7048123 DOI: 10.1186/s40900-020-0182-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2019] [Accepted: 02/17/2020] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Public voices have largely been absent from the discussions about open access publishing in medical research. Yet the public have a strong interest in ensuring open access of medical research findings because of their roles as funders, advocates, research participants, and patients. By limiting access to research outputs, the current publishing system makes it more difficult for research to be held accountable to the public. Paywalls undermine the work of public advocacy, which requires open access in order to lobby for policy changes and research funding. Research participants generously give their time and energy to research studies with the assumption that the results will be broadly disseminated. Finally, members of the public have a stake in open access publishing as a resource for health information and decision-making. This commentary explores these crucial roles of the public in order to develop a public rationale for open access medical research. We outline a critique of the current academic publishing ecosystem, re-focus the open access debate from a public perspective, and respond to some of the arguments against public open access. Although open access to medical research is not a panacea, removing paywalls and other barriers to public access is essential. The public are critical stakeholders of medical research data.
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- Suzanne Day
- Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases, 130 Mason Farm Road, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, 27599 USA
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- Department of Social Medicine, 333 South Columbia Street, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, 27516 USA
- Center for Bioethics, 333 South Columbia Street, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, 27516 USA
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- Zhitong Guangzhou LGBT Center, Guangdong Provincial Dermatology Hospital, Lujing Road, Luhu Park, Yuexiu, Guangzhou, Guangdong China
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- Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases, 130 Mason Farm Road, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, 27599 USA
- School of Medicine, 321 South Columbia Street, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, 27516 USA
- Faculty of Infectious Diseases, Keppel Street, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, WC1E 7HT UK
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Baffy G, Burns MM, Hoffmann B, Ramani S, Sabharwal S, Borus JF, Pories S, Quan SF, Ingelfinger JR. Scientific Authors in a Changing World of Scholarly Communication: What Does the Future Hold? Am J Med 2020; 133:26-31. [PMID: 31419421 DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2019.07.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2019] [Accepted: 07/26/2019] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Scholarly communication in science, technology, and medicine has been organized around journal-based scientific publishing for the past 350 years. Scientific publishing has unique business models and includes stakeholders with conflicting interests-publishers, funders, libraries, and scholars who create, curate, and consume the literature. Massive growth and change in scholarly communication, coinciding with digitalization, have amplified stresses inherent in traditional scientific publishing, as evidenced by overwhelmed editors and reviewers, increased retraction rates, emergence of pseudo-journals, strained library budgets, and debates about the metrics of academic recognition for scholarly achievements. Simultaneously, several open access models are gaining traction and online technologies offer opportunities to augment traditional tasks of scientific publishing, develop integrated discovery services, and establish global and equitable scholarly communication through crowdsourcing, software development, big data management, and machine learning. These rapidly evolving developments raise financial, legal, and ethical dilemmas that require solutions, while successful strategies are difficult to predict. Key challenges and trends are reviewed from the authors' perspective about how to engage the scholarly community in this multifaceted process.
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- Gyorgy Baffy
- Department of Medicine, VA Boston Healthcare System, Mass; Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Mass; Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass.
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- Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass; Department of Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital, Mass
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- Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass; Department of Emergency Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Mass
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- Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Mass; Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass
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- Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass; Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, VA Boston Healthcare System, Mass
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- Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass; Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Mass
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- Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass; Department of Surgery, Mount Auburn Hospital, Cambridge, Mass
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- Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Mass; Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass
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- Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass; Department of Pediatrics, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
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Bell SC, Castellani C, Flume PA. Disruption in research publishing - the open access revolution. J Cyst Fibros 2019; 18:747-749. [PMID: 31836188 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcf.2019.10.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Scott C Bell
- Thoracic Medicine, The Prince Charles Hospital, Brisbane, Australia; QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia; Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
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- Cystic Fibrosis Centre, IRCCS GianninaGaslini Institute, Genoa, Italy
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- Bruno Agustini
- Centre for Innovation in Mental and Physical Health and Clinical Treatment (IMPACT), Strategic Research Centre, School of Medicine, Deakin University, Geelong, VIC, Australia
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- Centre for Innovation in Mental and Physical Health and Clinical Treatment (IMPACT), Strategic Research Centre, School of Medicine, Deakin University, Geelong, VIC, Australia.,Orygen, The National Centre of Excellence in Youth Health, The Department of Psychiatry and The Florey Institute for Neuroscience and Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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Effects of journal choice on the visibility of scientific publications: a comparison between subscription-based and full Open Access models. Scientometrics 2019. [DOI: 10.1007/s11192-019-03265-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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The open access citation premium may depend on the openness and inclusiveness of the indexing database, but the relationship is controversial because it is ambiguous where the open access boundary lies. Scientometrics 2019. [DOI: 10.1007/s11192-019-03221-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Misra DP, Agarwal V. Open Access Publishing in India: Coverage, Relevance, and Future Perspectives. J Korean Med Sci 2019; 34:e180. [PMID: 31293108 PMCID: PMC6624418 DOI: 10.3346/jkms.2019.34.e180] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2019] [Accepted: 06/19/2019] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Open access (OA) publishing is a recent phenomenon in scientific publishing, enabling free access to knowledge worldwide. In the Indian context, OA to science has been facilitated by government-funded repositories of student and doctoral theses, and many Indian society journals are published with platinum OA. The proportion of OA publications from India is significant in a global context, and Indian journals are increasingly available on OA repositories such as Pubmed Central, and Directory of Open Access Journals. However, OA in India faces numerous challenges, including low-quality or predatory OA journals, and the paucity of funds to afford gold OA publication charges. There is a need to increase awareness amongst Indian academics regarding publication practices, including OA, and its potential benefits, and utilize this modality of publication whenever feasible, as in publicly-funded research, or when platinum OA is available, while avoiding falling prey to poor quality OA journals.
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- Durga Prasanna Misra
- Department of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India.
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- Department of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India
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Gasparyan AY, Yessirkepov M, Voronov AA, Koroleva AM, Kitas GD. Comprehensive Approach to Open Access Publishing: Platforms and Tools. J Korean Med Sci 2019; 34:e184. [PMID: 31293109 PMCID: PMC6624413 DOI: 10.3346/jkms.2019.34.e184] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/07/2019] [Accepted: 06/20/2019] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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The Open Access Initiative is gaining momentum due to the worldwide availability of advanced digital tools, online publishing platforms, and systems for tracking academic contributions. Several declarations and initiatives, including Plan S, have already laid a foundation for moving away from subscription to full and immediate open-access publishing. The global initiatives imply targeting journals satisfying the upgraded quality and visibility criteria. To meet these criteria, a comprehensive approach to Open Access is recommended. This article overviews the essential components of the comprehensive approach, increasing transparency, adherence to ethical standards, and diversification of evaluation metrics. With the increasing volume of quality open-access journals, their indexing with free databases and search engines is becoming increasingly important. The Directory of Open Access Journals and PubMed Central currently free searches of open-access sources. These services, however, cannot fully satisfy the increasing demands of the users, and attempts are underway to upgrade the indexing and archiving of open-access sources in China, Japan, Korea, Russia, and elsewhere. The wide use of identifiers is essential for transparency of scholarly communications. Peer reviewers are now offered credits from Publons. These credits are transferrable to their Open Researcher and Contributor iDs. Various social media channels are increasingly used by scholars to comment on articles. All these comments are tracked by related metric systems, such as Altmetrics. Combined with traditional citation evaluations, the alternative metrics can help timely identify and promote publications influencing education, research, and practice.
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- Armen Yuri Gasparyan
- Departments of Rheumatology and Research and Development, Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust (Teaching Trust of the University of Birmingham, UK), Russells Hall Hospital, Dudley, West Midlands, UK.
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- Department of Biology and Biochemistry, South Kazakhstan Medical Academy, Shymkent, Kazakhstan
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- Department of Marketing and Trade Deals, Kuban State University, Krasnodar, Russian Federation
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- Department of Economics and Organization of Production, Industrial University of Tyumen, Tyumen, Russian Federation
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- Departments of Rheumatology and Research and Development, Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust (Teaching Trust of the University of Birmingham, UK), Russells Hall Hospital, Dudley, West Midlands, UK
- Arthritis Research UK Epidemiology Unit, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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Ford CA. Looking Forward: Amplifying the Journal of Adolescent Health's Impact on Adolescent and Young Adult Health. J Adolesc Health 2019; 65:1-2. [PMID: 31229050 DOI: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2019.04.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2019] [Accepted: 04/12/2019] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Contraception and Contraception: X – our new ‘mirror’ journal. Contraception 2019; 99:321-322. [DOI: 10.1016/j.contraception.2019.04.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2018] [Revised: 04/11/2019] [Accepted: 04/14/2019] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Lüscher TF. The future of scientific publishing. EUROINTERVENTION 2019; 15:140-146. [DOI: 10.4244/eijv15i2a28] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Zyromski NJ. Editorial: Introducing Surgery Open Science. Surg Open Sci 2019; 1:1. [PMID: 32754685 PMCID: PMC7391887 DOI: 10.1016/j.sopen.2019.04.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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