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April issue now online
Volume 33 No 2 April 2020
| EDITORIAL: Is filtering censorship? |
Pippa Smart, Editor in Chief, Learned Publishing |
| ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Publishing in predatory open access journals: Authors' perspectives |
Mohammad Salehi, Mohammad Soltani, Hadis Tamleh, Shohreh Teimournezhad, University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, |
| ORGIGINAL ARTICLE: If PLOS ONE were really 101 different specialized journals: A proposed approach to the evaluation of multidisciplinary megajournals |
Rafael Repiso, Alicia Moreno-Delgado, Universidad Internacional de La Rioja, Spain, Daniel Torres-Salinas, Universidad de Granada, Spain |
| ORIGINAL ARTICLE: bioRxiv: Trends and analysis of five years of preprints |
Kent R. Anderson, Caldera Publishing Solution, USA |
| ORGIGINAL ARTICLE: Who shares health and medical scholarly articles on Facebook? |
Ehsan Mohmmadi, University of South Carolina, USA, Nilofar Barahmand, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Iran and Mike Thelwall, University of Wolverhampton, UK |
| ORIGINAL ARTICLE: The limitations of retraction notices and the heroic acts of authors who correct the scholarly record: An analysis of retractions of papers published from 1975 to 2019 |
Quan‐Hoang Vuong, Phenikaa University, Hanoi, Vietnam |
| ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Does the scholarly communication system satisfy the beliefs and aspirations of new researchers? Summarizing the Harbingers research |
David Nicholas, Wuhan, University, China, Anthony Watkinson, CIBER Research Ltd, UK, Abdullah Abrizah, University of Malaya, Malaysia, Blanca Rodríguez‐Bravo, Universidad de León, Spain, Cherifa Boukacem‐Zeghmouri, Université de Lyon, France, Jie Xu, Wuhan, University, China, Marzena Świgoń, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland and Eti Herman, CIBER Research Ltd, UK |
| ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Early career researchers and their authorship and peer review beliefs and practices: An international study |
Hamid R. Jamali, Charles Sturt University, Australia, David Nicholas, Wuhan, University, China, Anthony Watkinson, CIBER Research Ltd, UK, Abdullah Abrizah, University of Malaya, Malaysia, Blanca Rodríguez‐Bravo, Cherifa Boukacem‐Zeghmouri, Université de Lyon, France, Jie Xu, Wuhan, University, China, Tatiana Polezhaeva, Tomsk State University, Russia Eti Herman, CIBER Research Ltd and Marzena Świgon, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland |
| ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Factors affecting journal submission numbers: Impact factor and peer review reputation |
Thomas E. Gaston, Sarah Ritchie, Emma JonesJohn Wiley & Sons Ltd, UK, Francesca Ounsworth, Oxford Pharma Genesis Ltd, UK and Tessa Senders, University of Michigan, USA |
| ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Researchers' attitudes and perceptions towards data sharing and data reuse in the field of food science and technology |
Remedios Melero and Carolina Navarro‐Molina, Instituto de Agroquímica y Tecnología de Alimentos‐CSIC, Spain |
| INDUSTRY UPDATE: Subscribe to Open: A practical approach for converting subscription journals to open access |
Raym Crow, Chain Bridge Group, USA, Richard Gallagher and Kamran Naim, Annual Reviews, USA |
| CASE STUDY: The usage of WeChat to promote academic publishing in China: A case study on Chinese Laser Press |
Xiaofeng Wang, Ying Deng, Xuan Lü, Xinlei Zhang and Lei Yang, Chinese Laser Press, China |
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Editorial Board and Associate Editors
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Editor-in-Chief: Pippa Smart editor@alpsp.org
North American Editor: Lettie Conrad US-editor@alpsp.org
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Associate Editors
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Anthony Cond, Liverpool University Press, UK
Jenny Neophytou, Wiley, UK
Andrew Plume, Elsevier, UK
Adrian Stanley, Digital Science, USA |
| Early Career Editor |
Megan Ainsworth, Liverpool University Press, UK |
| Statistical Editors |
Kornelia Junge, Wiley, Germany
Xiaofeng Wang, Chinese Laser Press, China |
| Reviews Editors |
Tom Hill, Copyright Licensing New Zealand, NZ
Rachel Kessler, ProQuest, USA |
Editorial Board
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Rick Anderson, SSP, and Assoc Dean, Marriott Library, University of Utah USA
Casey Busher, bepress, USA
Todd Carpenter, NISO, USA
Chris Graf, Wiley, UK
Sun Huh, Hallym University and Korean Council of Science Editors, South Korea
Phill Jones, Double L Digital, UK
Bill Kasdorf, Kasdorf & Associates, USA
Rachael Lammey, Crossref, UK
Judy Luther, Informed Strategies, USA
Monica McCormick, University of Delaware Library and Press, USA
Vivek Mehra, SAGE India, MD India
Ann Michael, PLOS
Charlie Rapple, Kudos, UK
Shengli Ren, NSFC, China
Wayne Sime (ALPSP) Chief Executive ALPSP, UK
Andrew Stammer, CSIRO, Australia
Anne Stone, TBI Communications, USA
Helen (YH) Zhang, Zhejiang University Press, China |
