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The article offers information on the legendary Eugene Garfield who set out to "propose a bibliographic system for science literature that can eliminate the uncritical citation of fraudulent, incomplete, or obsolete data by making it possible for the conscientious scholar to be aware of criticisms of earlier papers." It highlights that Garfield goes so far as to advocate for a metric that never gained much traction: the lifetime-citation count per paper.

The article reports that research reproducibility, getting consistent results with the same set of data, code, and method described in the original research paper, is central to trustworthy scientific research. It reports that to address the growing need of research reproducibility, scholarly publishers have implemented features to access data, code, and experiments in their scholarly publication platforms.

The article offers information on a nation's economy is described in numbers, but academicians use words to explain those numbers. It discusses that Scholarly papers forecasting the state of the economy are more than equally matched with opinion pieces in the daily press that also attempt to forecast the state of the economy; and mentions that EconLit, the primary database covering the scholarly literature of economics, is produced by the American Economic Association (AEA).

The article offers information on the Computer Library industry as of June 2022. Topics discussed include Springer Nature is set to secure a transitional OA agreement for Nature, Nature research journals, and Palgrave journals; Elsevier has entered into an agreement to acquire Interfolio, which provides advanced faculty information solutions for higher education; and Aries Systems Corp. and Figshare have entered a partnership to promote and facilitate sharing the open data from academic papers.

The article reports that eLife, will no longer make accept/reject decisions after peer review. Instead, every paper will be published as a reviewed preprint, which combines the manuscript with eLife's peer reviews and a brief assessment of the findings' significance and evidence quality.