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Purpose: The aim of this study is to explore the articles included in the Altmetric index of Iranian medical journals that are listed in the PubMed database within scientific social networks. Methodology: This applied research utilized a survey methodology and a scientometric approach based on altmetric indicators. The statistical population for this study comprised all medical articles from 2018 available in the PubMed medical database. Data collection was facilitated through the use of the bookmarklet tool, which is accessible for free on the Altmetrics Institute website. Findings: The results revealed that 23% of the articles mentioned at least once on social networks received an altmetric score. The average citation count for articles with an altmetric score was 2.91. The altmetric average for all articles was 0.6 compared to the average citation count of 1.6, indicating that articles received roughly a single citation for every altmetric score. Among social networks, Twitter was the most popular with 1036 articles (21%), followed closely by Mendeley with 935 articles (19%). Conclusion: The coverage of altmetrics for articles in Iranian medical journals listed in the PubMed database was found to be satisfactory. The study also highlighted a significant and positive correlation between the number of citations received and the altmetric score, suggesting that articles with higher citation counts were also more frequently discussed on social networks. Value: This article provides insights into the altmetrics of medical science articles indexed in a reputable medical database, with the measured indicators relevant for use in various scientific social networks.

purpose: The purpose of this research is to provide a model of transparency in the Islamic Council of the Islamic Republic of Iran (with the approach of digital governance in the context of information technology). Method: The type of research is based on the fundamental objective, which is a mixed approach (qualitative and quantitative) with an exploratory design. In this article, only the qualitative part is mentioned. in the qualitative part with a phenomenological approach, the seven-step theoretical method of Kleizeri and the Delphi technique have been used. The statistical population of this research in the qualitative part includes experts in the field of transparency, whose number is 24 people. The data collection tool of this research was conducted in the qualitative part through individual, in-depth, semi-structured interviews, and then the data was processed. Findings: The model of transparency in the Majlis of the Islamic Council of Iran consists of five main categories, which are: informational, financial, supervisory and accountable, ethical and professional, which not only achieved the dimensions of transparency in the Islamic Council, but also the factors affecting the establishment The success of transparency, the consequences of establishing transparency, the obstacles to establishing transparency, as well as possible damages in the Islamic Council in case transparency is not established will also be discussed.

The purpose of the article is to conduct a comprehensive, objective and critical analysis of the results of research on open access in Ukraine to assess the current state of the topic and identify the aspects which require deeper study in order to develop an effective mechanism for implementing the principles of open access in practice. Research methods. The method of narrative literature review with a defined search strategy and criteria for selecting publications in four databases, such as Dimensions, Scopus, Web of Science and the depository of electronic copies “Scientific Periodicals of Ukraine” was used. The inclusion criteria were articles published by authors affiliated with Ukrainian institutions. The scientific novelty lies in the fact that the literature analysis helped to expand and deepen knowledge about the thematic areas of open access research in Ukraine; to identify previously unknown links and contradictions between studies; and to identify areas that require further studies, which include, in particular, the analysis of factors and barriers that facilitate or prevent Ukrainian authors from disseminating their works in open access, the dynamics of growth and peculiarities of the distribution of the share of open access publications by year and field of study. Conclusions. Open access is one of the main components of Open Science. It serves as a tool for accelerating knowledge sharing, developing science, helping to eliminate inequality, and helping to solve several global problems. The research of Ukrainian scientists focuses on four primary areas of open access research: the development of open access policies at the level of institutions and the state, the introduction of institutional repositories, the launch of open access journals, and the regulation of copyright in open scientific communication.

This essay discusses the issue of scientific publishing policies and distinguishes three types of journals: the large or giant commercialpublishers that represent sharks or predators of science and its operators and funders, the fraudulent predatory ones that publishvirtually anything without proper review for a publication fee, and the journals outside the Western Eurocentric or the UnitedStates/Canada axis that are often free or charge much lower fees to authors and generally offer open access of articles. In thissense, it was demonstrated through the scientific content curation methodology that both journals from large publishers andpredatory or fraudulent journals are predatory. Thus, researchers should avoid predatory or fraudulent journals since publishingin these vehicles constitutes scientific misconduct, but it is necessary that there is a decolonial rupture in the sense of valuing local,national or regional journals, especially in the Latin American, Iberoamerican, Eastern European, Asian and other countries thatalso develop quality and important science, because the knowledge generated locally interests the society and the managers to solveour problems and not only be published in English, with restricted access, which hinders its apprehension by the priority targetaudiences to face the challenges and make the educational, political, economic, cultural and technological transformations thatLatin America and the developing world demand.

Within the framework of the profound transformations of scientific publishing, Venezuelan journals face a difficult situationbecause of the sharp fall in local research and the total loss of support from the State. A significant number have been paralyzed ordelayed. However, many editors are determined to keep their journals active and, recently, some autonomous universities proposeinitiatives to prevent the disappearance of publishing activity by adopting new ways of supporting their operation that contributeto adapting to the demands of international repositories and maintaining their continuity, and, subsequently, a review is made ofstatistical data from national and international repositories and interviews with those responsible for coordinating research in fourautonomous universities, editors and researchers from various areas of knowledge. The situation of Venezuelan journals shows asignificant drop in their activity, while certain changes begin to be experienced in search of survival. The most notable thing is thechange in the profile of the authorships of the articles in some journals, which in 10 years go from being fundamentally nationalto predominantly foreign.

The prominence of universities as centers for the publication of scientific journals in Latin America has been assessed in differentworks; however, few studies have described these scenarios from a historical perspective that recovers the characteristics of the firstpublications and their contexts. This research focuses on the survey of journals published during the foundational period of theUniversidad Nacional del Litoral (1919-1943), and their characterization according to formats and contents presented. Out ofa total of 13 periodical publications surveyed, we found the existence of journals that present a hybrid genre between scientificand informative discourse; a smaller group that we call "teaching journals", dedicated to teaching and the publication of practicalexercises for students; and a majority of publications (7 journals in total) dedicated to the communication of the results of scientificresearch. is paper focuses on these pioneering scientific journals, which marked the beginning of a path of academic publicationsin the context of a founding moment in the creation of research institutes and consolidation of scientific careers, and coincidingwith the development of extension policies. Studying the processes between the beginnings of the UNL in light of the presentallows us to postulate an editorial will that extends throughout the history of the institution.

In recent decades, scientific evaluation systems have privileged the publication of articles in journals indexed in international andregional databases. This trend generated a multiplication of scientific journals in the social sciences and humanities, which havethe institutional support of public universities for their maintenance.Inturn,it implied achallenge of adaptation and updating in editorial management for those journals with a certain disciplinary tradition that were trying to insert themselves into these new academic circuits. Based on this context, the objective of this article is to analyze the trajectory of Revista de historia americana y argentina (Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad Nacional de Cuyo), with a view to identifying changes and continuities in its editorial management, orientations themes and the institutional affiliations of their authors. The analysis showed that the publication was a space for the dissemination of the research of the professors of the house of studies to later break this trendand encourage the participation of authors from other national and, recently, foreign institutions. In turn, the published themes account for trends, debates and discussions in regional and national historiography.

is article studies the criteria prioritized by the researchers of the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research(CONICET, acronym in Spanish) to choose where to publish. For this, a survey was used whose results were analyzed usingdescriptive statistics. Predictably, it was found that these researchers prioritize ranking and impact indicators above all (73%) and,as a finding, that, in second order, the fact that journals do not charge for publishing (54%) -value with greater representationin biology, agricultural sciences and engineering-. Meanwhile, open access policies that allow maximum diffusion are somewhat undervalued in general (11%). e investigation carried out confirms the relevance of the evaluative cultures and the dynamics ofthe disciplinary fields as structuring of the priorities to select publications. Likewise, it manages to demonstrate from the supplyside that the APC collected present difficulties and non-payment is an important criterion for authors in Argentina. It is concludedthat the expansion of open access under business models that consider knowledge as merchandise is not only a risk for developingcountries, but that this expansion and the onerous costs of APC are already modifying the practices of those who do science andlimiting a true free circulation of knowledge.

This paper summarises the eight principles that were laid before the General Assembly of the International Science Council in October 2021, when they were overwhelmingly endorsed.

This work addresses the problem of the withdrawal of scientific articles from a holistic approach. The growth of scientific production has also generated an increase in the phenomenon known as retraction, this is a topic that has been discussed from the particular point of view of plagiarism and in general as an aspect that is related to the lack of ethics on the part of the author or authors. Although many of the ethical problems that arise in the field of research are related to the ownership of ideas and the way in which they are used, there is a wide range of factors that do not fully account for deliberate malpractice. Therefore, retraction is located within the scientific information system that aims to produce knowledge and is affected by a diversity of processes and actors, and retraction is analyzed as a systemic phenomenon.

We present a study about the main limitations that appear in the research articles in the area of ​​Pedagogical Sciences, with the purpose of contributing to support the preparation of the authors in the scientific writing in that branch of knowledge, in the postgraduate training. The study was descriptive in nature, with a qualitative approach, which used documentary analysis as a general method, based on the assessment of reports, opinions, review panels, among other documents, from the review of manuscripts in the corresponding format referred to. to the field of education. As a result of the analysis of the data collected in the selected sample, the main regularities or trends that show the limitations in the writing of the articles were identified and some guidelines or recommendations are needed to improve them. It is considered that the results of the study can be used for didactic purposes, to support the preparation of teachers who research in the area of education, since they will allow focusing on learning actions towards the aspects identified in the study, in which the greatest difficulties were detected.

Qualis Periódicos, a journal stratification created to evaluate the publication of Brazilian postgraduate programs in a past period, includes only the journals in which faculty published in that period. However, it has been wrongly used to evaluate individuals in the present – faculty, graduate students, post-doctoral students and even graduate candidates. In the Information Science subject area, Qualis excludes the top journals in the Web of Science and Scopus rankings, voiding the value of prospective new articles in these journals. This research aims to better understand these phenomena, analyzing the evolution of journals' Qualis strata between evaluation events of two groups of information science journals: the 12 first in the Scopus and Web of Science rankings in 2017 and the 63 currently active Brazilian journals in BRAPCI. Of the 12 leading Web of Science and Scopus journals, only two were included in any of the three Qualis events on the Sucupira Platform. Journals in BRAPCI vary from event to event, with more advances than declines. There is a clear disincentive to publish in journals that are not included in Qualis, particularly those leading the Web of Science and Scopus rankings. Authors who choose a journal according to Qualis are subject to possible exclusion or decay in Qualis stratum, as well as avoiding the top of the elite rankings.

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In recent years, the creation of socio-scientific networks has been the norm, due to the great impulse that grouping together anddeveloping activities together to achieve a common goal can mean. In 2020, the WeEditors.org network was created, which wasborn from the initiative of three editors of scientific journals who wanted to form a group where they bet on professionalization and promote Ibero-American journals, based on the idea that by making a group in where experienced journals and new journalsconverge, it could serve to transfer knowledge and achieve, in short, the improvement of processes in the search for a betterpositioning of Latin American science. e objective of this article is to characterize the journals of the WeEditors.org network forthe drawing up of strategies in pursuit of the strengthening and advancement of the network. An observational descriptive studywas carried out during the period between the months of May-June 2022, as the primary source the Excel database was used, whichis part of the registry of the network, which had a total of 98 journals (N = 98) at that time. e realization of this study collectedinteresting and sufficient information for the design and implementation of future activities to be developed on practical training,implementation of continuous publication, Open Science, use of CRediT taxonomy and ORCID code. e systematization ofthis type of characterization study is vital for drawing up the relevant strategies and making the comparisons for the analysis of theevolution of the network. ere are still ways to go, but the future looks bright.

Objective: Qualis Periódicos ranks scholarly journals in which Brazilian graduate program faculty have published in a past period, aiming at the evaluation of graduate programs. Some programs have been adopting it to select graduate students regarding their current publications. In order to account for the incidence of this phenomenon, specifically for graduate programs in Information Science, the objective of this research was to measure the adoption of Qualis to evaluate individuals in the selection to enter the master's or doctorate in Information Science in Brazil. Methodology: We carried out an online survey, checking in calls for graduate studies whether each program on the ANCIB list evaluates candidates according to their publications in “Qualis journals” from the period 2013-2016, also considering whether it is a sole or partial criterion for assessing publications. Results: Around 21% of the programs adopt it, with little variation according to their CAPES rank. Conclusions: Adoption is sparse, but relevant. It is surprising that it is used by stricto sensu graduate programs in Information Science, as it means that the faculty that approved it ignored the CAPES recommendation, or approved it by distraction, or despite knowing that it was an error. This blocks interdisciplinarity, by valuing only publications in journals considered “from the subject area”, as well as it devalues not-in-Qualis leading journals from elite databases. It also goes against CAPES’ recommendation, which requires an “I’ve read and understood” tick on the Sucupira Platform to acknowledge that Qualis is only for the evaluation of past production from graduate programs.