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April 2019 issue now online
Volume 32 No 2 April 2019
| EDITORIAL: Journal development: Why and How? |
Pippa Smart, Editor in Chief, Learned Publishing |
| RESEARCH ARTICLE: Authorship order |
Gert Helgesson, Stockholm Centre for Healthcare Ethics & Informatics, Management and Ethics, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden and Stefan Eriksson, Centre for Research Ethics and Bioethics, Uppsala University, Sweden |
| ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Internationalization of China's English‐language academic journals: An overview and three approaches |
Jie Xu, Associate Professor, Jia Yun Wang, Postgraduate Student of Publishing Study,School of Information Management and Lihong Zhou, Professor, Wuhan University, China, Fen Liu, The Community of Caidian District, Wuhan, China |
| RESEARCH ARTICLE: Reflections on the international impact of Chinese STM journals |
Yuehong (Helen) Zhang and Hanfeng Lin, Journal of Zhejiang University‐Science A/B; Zhejiang University, China, Fang Bao and Jian Wu, Journal of Sport and Health Science, Shanghai University of Sport, China |
| RESEARCH ARTICLE: Peer review in the development of academic articles: Experiences of Finnish authors in the educational sciences |
Päivi Atjonen, School of Educational Sciences and Psychology, University of Eastern Finland, Finland |
| RESEARCH ARTICLE: Sci‐Hub: The new and ultimate disruptor? View from the front |
David Nicholas and Jie Xu, School of Information Management, Wuhan University, China, Chérifa Boukacem‐Zeghmouri, Université de Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France, Eti Herman, Information and Library Studies Programme, University of Haifa, Israel, David Clark, CIBER Research Ltd. UK, Abdullah Abrizah, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, University of Malaya, Malaysia, Blanca Rodríguez‐Bravo, Biblioteconomía y Documentación, Universidad de Leon, Spain and Marzena Świgoń, Uniwersytet Warminsko‐Mazurski, Olsztyn, Poland |
| RESEARCH ARTICLE: Is Google Scholar useful for the evaluation of non‐English scientific journals? The case of Chinese journals |
Yang Zhang and Huilian Lun, School of Information Management, Sun Yat‐sen University, China |
| RESEARCH ARTICLE: What does better peer review look like? Underlying principles and recommendations for better practice |
Heidi Allen, Alexandra Cury, Chris Graf, Thomas Gaston, Hannah Wakley and Michael Willis, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Oxford, UK |
| INDUSTRY UPDATE: What's happening with open annotation? Discoverability, engagement, community |
Heather Staines, Director of Partnerships, Hypothesis, USA |
| OPINION PIECE: The debate over open access is missing the point |
Stuart Buck, Vice President of Research, Laura and John Arnold Foundation, USA |
| CASE STUDY: Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information's scholarly journal publishing: A case study |
Hea Lim Rhee, Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information, Korea |
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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
Peter Ashman, The BMJ, UK
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, 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
Charlie Rapple, Kudos, UK
Shengli Ren, NSFC, China
Andrew Stammer, CSIRO, Australia
Anne Stone, TBI Communications, USA
Helen (YH) Zhang, Zhejiang University Press, China
Wayne Sime (ALPSP) Interim Chief Executive ALPSP, UK
Rick Anderson (SSP) Utah University Press, USA |
