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Objectives: Public Health Reports (PHR), the official journal of the Office of the US Surgeon General and US Public Health Service, is the oldest public health journal in the United States. Considering its heritage through the eyes of its past editors in chief (EICs), many of whom have been influential public health figures, can provide a fresh point of view on US public health history, of which the journal has been an integral part. Here, we reconstruct the timeline of past PHR EICs and identify women among them. Methods: We reconstructed the PHR EIC timeline by reviewing the journal's previous mastheads and its articles describing leadership transitions. For each EIC, we identified dates in office, concurrent job titles, key contributions, and other important developments. Results: PHR had 25 EIC transitions in 109 years of its history, during which a single individual in charge of the journal could be identified. Only 5 identifiable EICs were women, who served as EIC for approximately one-quarter of the journal's traceable history (28 of 109 years). PHR 's longest-serving EIC was a woman named Marian P. Tebben (1974-1994). Conclusions: PHR history revealed frequent EIC transitions and a low representation of women among its EICs. Mapping the timeline of past EICs of a historic public health journal can yield valuable insights into the workings of US public health, especially in the area of building a research evidence base. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to explore how rural has been approached from Geography in Argentina in the last decade, through what topics, by which perspectives, through an analysis of academic production published in Geography journals of different universities in the country. Using the technique of content analysis, numerous scientific writings have been traced that not only show the continuity of the process of renewal of rural geography under emerging questions of inquiry and new ways of approach, but also reinforce the eclecticism and heterogeneity of this field of studies in Argentina. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: "Scholarly Communication" is a frequent topic of both the professional and research literature of Library and Information Science (LIS). Despite efforts by individuals (e.g. Borgman, 1989) and organizations such as the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) to define the term, multiple understandings of it remain. Discussions of scholarly communication infrequently offer a definition or explanation of its parameters, making it difficult for readers to form a comprehensive understanding of scholarly communication and associated phenomena. Design/methodology/approach: This project uses the evolutionary concept analysis (ECA) method developed by nursing scholar, Beth L. Rodgers, to explore "Scholarly Communication" as employed in the literature of LIS. As the purpose of ECA is not to arrive at "the" definition of a term but rather exploring its utilization within a specific context, it is an ideal approach to expand our understanding of SC as used in LIS research. Findings: "Scholarly Communication" as employed in the LIS literature does not refer to a single phenomenon or idea, but rather is a concept with several dimensions and sub-dimensions with distinct, but overlapping, significance. Research limitations/implications: The concept analysis (CA) method calls for review of a named concept, i.e. verbatim. Therefore, the items included in the data set must include the phrase "scholarly communication". Items using alternate terminology were excluded from analysis. Practical implications: The model of scholarly communication presented in this paper provides language to operationalize the concept. Originality/value: LIS lacks a nuanced understanding of "scholarly communication" as used in the LIS literature. This paper offers a model to further the field's collective understanding of the term and support operationalization for future research projects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Summary: It is essential that academic publishing complies with the highest standards in terms of ethics, research conduct and manuscript preparation. This protects the rights and welfare of research participants, ensures the integrity of study results and aids the communication and dissemination of novel findings into clinical practice. This position statement outlines the current policies and practices of the Editors of Anaesthesia and Anaesthesia Reports in relation to academic medical publishing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to transform many aspects of scholarly publishing. Authors, peer reviewers, and editors might use AI in a variety of ways, and those uses might augment their existing work or might instead be intended to replace it. We are editors of bioethics and humanities journals who have been contemplating the implications of this ongoing transformation. We believe that generative AI may pose a threat to the goals that animate our work but could also be valuable for achieving those goals. In the interests of fostering a wider conversation about how generative AI may be used, we have developed a preliminary set of recommendations for its use in scholarly publishing. We hope that the recommendations and rationales set out here will help the scholarly community navigate toward a deeper understanding of the strengths, limits, and challenges of AI for responsible scholarly work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Incentivizing academic publications in internationally-indexed journals is a current topic of national debate especially in non-anglophone countries. To boost the dissemination of Chinese research results, the central government and higher education institutions had introduced various schemes to encourage international publications. However, a significant policy change took place when the Chinese government recently announced a break with SSCI supremacy conventions in research evaluation systems. Based on semi-structured interviews with five university managers and 30 academics in humanities and social sciences in five universities in China, this study examines the responses of both institution managers and individual scholars to the latest national guidelines. A qualitative analysis shows mixed attitudes among both HSS managers and individual academics towards the policy change: supportive but with doubts about the policy practicality as well as concerns about ensuing pressures to be generated by new evaluation systems. The findings suggest the policy change will not significantly affect HSS academics' pursuit of international publishing in a short term. It will, however, lead to some adjustments in the existing institutional evaluation regulations. The findings can contribute to the understanding of HE policy influence on academics as well as its potential implications for the global trend of anglicized academic publishing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Publishing in the academy is a high-stakes activity often used to measure academic staff progress and inform promotion. Many universities have increased pressure on academics, even at the earliest stages of their careers, to publish in high-ranking journals resulting in increased stress and uncertainty. The authors of this paper are members of a writing group in an Australian regional university, established to support each other towards success in quality research and publishing. Over the 2020–2021 summer semester, six members of the group decided to reflect on their experiences, emotions and outcomes throughout the writing process by participating in four reflective arts-based activities. Theoretical frameworks of reflection and metaphor were used to share findings. Strong evidence of having to grapple with meeting university expectations in tension with personal goals and passions was ever-present. The importance of drawing on both personal resources and significant others to manage these tensions through self-care practices was also evident. Implications resulting from this research include recognising the pressures placed on academics to publish only in specifically ranked journals. Overall, the arts-based reflection was critical in uncovering deeper feelings about the pressures of publishing and supporting higher education employees' well-being and self-care during the writing process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents an umbrella review of blockchain-based smart grid applications. By umbrella review, we mean that our review is based on systematic reviews of this topic. We aim to synthesize the findings from these systematic reviews and gain deeper insights into this discipline. After studying the systematic reviews, we find it imperative to provide a concise and authoritative description of blockchain technology because many technical inaccuracies permeate many of these papers. This umbrella review is guided by five research questions. The first research question concerns the types of blockchain-based smart grid applications. Existing systematic reviews rarely used a systematic method to classify these applications. To address this issue, we propose a taxonomy of these applications, first by differentiating them based on whether the application is focusing on functional or non-functional aspects of smart grid operations, and then by the specific functions or perspectives that the application aims to implement or enhance. The second research question concerns the roles that blockchain technology plays in smart grid applications. We synthesize the findings by identifying the most prominent benefits that blockchain technology could bring to these applications. We also take the opportunity to point out several common technical mistakes that pervade the blockchain literature, such as equating all forms of blockchains to data immutability. The third research question concerns the guidelines for deciding whether a blockchain-based solution would be useful to address the needs of smart grids. We synthesize the findings by proposing benefit-based guidelines. The fourth research question concerns the maturity levels of blockchain-based smart grid applications. We differentiate between academic-led and industry-led projects. We propose a five-level scale to evaluate the maturity levels. The ranking of the industry-led projects is performed through our own investigation. Our investigation shows that more than half of the industry-led projects mentioned in the systematic reviews are no longer active. Furthermore, although there are numerous news reports and a large number of academic papers published on blockchain-based smart grid applications, very few have been successfully embraced by the industry. The fifth research question concerns the open research issues in the development of blockchain-based smart grid applications. We synthesize the findings and provide our own analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Academic middle leaders play a critical role in facilitating the leadership of learning and teaching in universities. Previous research has reported the undervaluing and under-resourcing of these academic middle leadership roles. To promote a greater understanding of academic middle leaders, middle leading and middle leadership of learning and teaching in universities, a comprehensive systematic review of higher education literature published in scholarly journals between 2010–2020 was conducted. The review found a limited yet growing literature in the field, with studies predominantly utilising qualitative methodologies, single departmental levels of analysis and topics related to leadership contexts, roles and leader experiences. Analysis revealed the complex, multi-faceted nature of academic middle leadership roles, the tensions experienced by academic middle leaders and the importance of collegial academic middle leading practices. Scholars implore universities to improve role clarity, resourcing and autonomy for academic middle leaders. Future research exploring academic middle leading practices through contemporary lenses is recommended. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper aims to understand the context and drivers of researchers' decision to submit a manuscript to a journal with questionable practices. Using OMICS as a case study and asking authors for their views, the paper presents their profile, motivations and publishing experiences. The methodology is based on a questionnaire sent by e-mail to all authors of articles in journals published by OMICS (+2200). The authors were asked about (a) the factors that influenced their decision to submit their article; (b) their publishing experience with OMICS; (c) their level of satisfaction; and (d) whether or not they would repeat the experience. A total of 86 responses were collected and 18 e-mails were received. The analysis made it possible to add details to the profiles of authors already identified in the literature, but also allowed new and more nuanced profiles. This research extends our knowledge on the phenomenon of predatory publishing from the authors' feedback and provides a better understanding of the socio-economic, psychosocial and geo-political conditions that drive researchers' decisions to submit their work to a possible, potential, or probable predatory journal. At the same time, it reveals some of the strategies used by OMICS to persuade authors to submit their papers. The findings will help to inform institutional policies that seek to put in place efficient measures to combat predatory publishing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study aims to investigate the number of journals de-indexed by Scopus during the last two decades, specifically, from 2000 through 2019. Data for the study were retrieved from SCImago, a Scopus database. The scope of the study is global, covering all the 27 major subject disciplines categorized in Scopus. A total of 6059 research journals were found to be de-indexed from Scopus up until 2019, accounting for 18.61 percent of the total journals indexed in Scopus till date. Among the total de-indexed journals, 2311 (38.14%) journals were de-indexed from the period between 2000and 2019. A steady decline in the de-indexing of journals has been observed after the year 2010. Among the top 20 countries with the highest number of de-indexed journals, it was found that 90.11percent of journals have been de-indexed from these countries altogether. The United States stands out as the leading country, contributing to nearly one-third of the total de-indexed journals worldwide, with Medicine (44%) being the leading subject area in the de-indexed journals. On a national level, Sweden takes the lead, recording the highest de-indexing rate of 40.70 percent of journals. Following standard publishing parameters in publishing research results is of utmost importance for several reasons, with the primary one being dissemination of genuine and authentic research for the larger benefit of society. Any compromise with the quality of published research must be addressed seriously, and if necessary de-indexing a journal as a punitive measure should be considered appropriate and welcomed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Despite having a crucial role in scholarly publishing, peer reviewers do not typically require any training. The purpose of this study was to conduct an international survey on the current perceptions and motivations of researchers regarding peer review training. Methods: A cross-sectional online survey was conducted of biomedical researchers. A total of 2000 corresponding authors from 100 randomly selected medical journals were invited via email. Quantitative items were reported using frequencies and percentages or means and SE, as appropriate. A thematic content analysis was conducted for qualitative items in which two researchers independently assigned codes to the responses for each written-text question, and subsequently grouped the codes into themes. A descriptive definition of each category was then created and unique themes–as well as the number and frequency of codes within each theme–were reported. Results: A total of 186 participants completed the survey of which 14 were excluded. The majority of participants indicated they were men (n = 97 of 170, 57.1%), independent researchers (n = 108 of 172, 62.8%), and primarily affiliated with an academic organization (n = 103 of 170, 62.8%). A total of 144 of 171 participants (84.2%) indicated they had never received formal training in peer review. Most participants (n = 128, 75.7%) agreed–of which 41 (32.0%) agreed strongly–that peer reviewers should receive formal training in peer review prior to acting as a peer reviewer. The most preferred training formats were online courses, online lectures, and online modules. Most respondents (n = 111 of 147, 75.5%) stated that difficulty finding and/or accessing training was a barrier to completing training in peer review. Conclusion: Despite being desired, most biomedical researchers have not received formal training in peer review and indicated that training was difficult to access or not available. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

While in the early days of the internet, there was great enthusiasm about the wealth of new possibilities for science, in recent years, awareness about the darker sides of digital technologies has been rising. It is known today that the leading academic publishers have tapped into the data analytics business. The resulting massive collection of user traces not only threatens privacy rights but also increases concerns about the consolidation of the oligopoly in the global academic publishing industry and large-scale corporate influence on science. This paper explores the consequences of this development for the constitutional protection of science. It argues that while classic accounts of constitutionalism are not entirely blind to constitutional challenges transcending the state-individual relationship, they struggle to capture the subtle yet systemic risks that the science system faces in the digital age. Societal constitutionalism is not only a useful lens to better understand these threats, but also to respond to them, providing valuable lessons for debates about digital constitutionalism and the effective protection of fundamental rights in the digital age. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

While more recognizable publishing models continue to be favored across academic research and publishing systems, the diverse forms of knowledge emerging from publicly-engaged projects derived from working directly with and for communities requires novel and more dynamic publishing solutions. This article considers how the appropriate application of metadata and persistent identifiers to the processes and outputs of engaged scholarship are required to support the goals of the publicly-engaged humanities, and potentially lead to faster and more effective forms of impact for the people and places involved. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is based upon the author's presentation at the 2023 NISO Plus Conference in which he discussed the purpose and importance of the NISO Content Profile/Linked Document standard. The need for the standard is obvious: users demand the delivery of contextualized, targeted content delivered as a natural part of their workflow and publishers aspire to produce machine-actionable FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) materials, but many publishing workflows are focused on articles, often published after research is concluded. This standard is an application of HTML5 and JSON-LD to create semantic relationships between data elements in scholarly publishing workflows and express machine actionable content, to ease reuse and interchange of scholarly research information. The format description defines a set of rules that outline the minimal characteristics of documents (Linked Documents) that conform to the standard and a mechanism to define more detailed Content Profiles that extend and refine the rules for specific use cases. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

For decades, abundant studies have illustrated the vast scholarly publication disparity between male and women academics. Exhaustingly, in 21st-century higher education, women's academic research participation is below the world average, except in a few countries that comprehensively studied their faculties and personal and institutional agencies to restore parity. Higher education is widely discussed in Vietnam as incompetent academics with a shred of scholarly publications and venerable gender disparities. Hence, the current study sought to contribute robust policy and practical implications for stakeholders by inspecting women's faculties solely to shed light on the root hindrances of their scholarly share. Remarkably, the findings of the study demonstrate that women faculty members have promising scholarly contributions in disciplines where women scientists are marginalized, that having children becomes a notable motivator for mothers in academia, and that there is genuine support from a husband who understands the worth of his wife's research contribution to the institution and family. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores the special issue of Gender & Development titled "Decolonising (feminist) knowledge and practice." The issue aims to examine the power dynamics of colonialism, racism, ableism, casteism, and patriarchy in knowledge and research institutions, development policy and practice, and everyday life. The editors and reviewers reflect on their decolonial feminist commitments and the goals of the journal to be an accessible and inclusive resource. The issue includes contributions that challenge traditional academic norms and explore innovative methodologies. The authors aim to uncover and challenge the privileges and inheritances embedded within academic publishing while acknowledging their own vulnerabilities and positionalities. The text also discusses the efforts made by the editors of the journal Gender & Development to decolonize knowledge and knowledge processes. The editors aim to challenge traditional notions of high-quality knowledge and to amplify the voices and perspectives of marginalized communities. They also strive to create a more inclusive and transparent editorial process, and to incorporate diverse forms of knowledge and resources. The editors acknowledge the limitations and constraints they face in their decolonial efforts, but remain committed to sustaining relationships and collaborations that prioritize care, trust, and feminist decolonial intentions. [Extracted from the article]

Our title is borrowed from a famous line of Wiji Thukul's poem Peringatan (translated as Warning), about the everyday lives of the working class and their struggles to be heard, resonating with many of our experiences in working to decolonise climate knowledge production. As in Thukul's words: 'There is only one word: Fight!' We critically reflect on our recent experiences working with artists, communities, activists, and practitioners to better understand the gender–age–urban interface of climate change: how climate impacts are shaped by gender and age in urban Indonesia. In a deliberate challenge to problematic conventions of academic publishing, we choose to frame this paper around a series of creative processes focused on women's experiences and responses to climate change, including Madihin – a Banjarese tradition of musical storytelling – and Trans Superhero Perubahan Iklim (Transgender Superheroes for Climate). We centre these different forms of knowledge and voice in our discussion as a series of provocations for researchers and practitioners to think creatively about the languages we use, the methods we draw on, the collaborations we build, how we disseminate 'academic' knowledge, and to push at institutional barriers and the boundaries of what 'inclusion' truly means at each stage of our research processes. We explore how feminist, ethnographic, and arts-led methodologies can foreground knowledge, perspectives, and art forms that are traditionally excluded in climate change knowledge production – long dominated by colonial and patriarchal hegemonies (and tyrannies) of science and 'experts'; and unpack our un/learning in this imperfect 'fight' to decolonise our research process and build a mutual collaborative research practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article critically examines the authenticity of texts attributed to Russian Prince Andrei Kurbskii and Russian monarch Ivan Vasilyevich, focusing on their significance in historical analyses of Ivan's rule. Professor Edward L. Keenan's 1971 monograph questioning the authenticity initiated a scholarly discussion, and historian Donald Ostrowski revived the debate in 2006. Ostrowski's analysis challenges Keenan's conclusions through semiotic description and content interpretation.

This paper provides an in-depth analysis of the evolving landscape of international politics, the challenges this scenario presents for the field of International Relations (IR) and the pivotal role played by Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional (RBPI) in shaping both academic knowledge and policy frameworks. The study aims to achieve two primary objectives. First, to contextualize the significant shifts in international politics in the last few years, such as the rise of China and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, while advocating for interdisciplinary approaches and highlighting the contributions of Latin American, particularly Brazilian, scholars to global academic debates. Second, to trace the history, evolution, and international impact of RBPI since its inception in 1958, emphasizing its role in leveraging the standards of academic publishing in Brazil and Latin America, fostering international collaborations, and influencing policy decisions. The paper proposes that RBPI serves as an indispensable platform for advancing rigorous academic inquiry and offers a more inclusive perspective on international relations, thereby having a lasting impact on both the academic and policy landscapes globally. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the Public Health Reports (PHR): Year in Review article series. Topics discussed include 2022 performance metrics of PHR, assessment of the journal's state, tribal, local, and territorial (STLT) authorship in 2022, and topics of PHR articles published in 2022 which includes infectious diseases, health disparities and the health of racial and ethnic minority and other socially or economically disadvantaged populations.

Maschinelle Verfahren als Instrumente, um die Open-Access-Transformation in Form von Publikationsdaten abzubilden, erfordern aufgrund enormer Datenvolumen strukturierte Datensätze, die eindeutig identifizierbar sind und sich vergleichen lassen. Zur Identifikation wissenschaftlicher und praxisorientierter Publikationen haben sich digital object identifier (DOI) durchgesetzt, doch längst nicht alle Publikationen sind damit ausgestattet. Anhand eines Datensamples der Pädagogischen Hochschule Zürich werden in dieser Studie ausgewählte Datenquellen für Monitoring-Verfahren analysiert, um Quoten für nicht-repräsentierte Publikationen zu berechnen und unbeabsichtigte Leerstellen sichtbar zu machen. Das Verstehen dieser Leerstellen eröffnet Lösungsansätze, wie diese vermieden werden können, um ein belastbares Open-Access-Monitoring sicherzustellen. Due to the enormous data volumes, monitoring methods as tools for representing the Open Access transformation in terms of publications require structured data sets that can be uniquely identified and compared. Digital object identifiers (DOI) have been established for the identification of scientific and practice-oriented publications, but certainly not all publications are endowed with them. Using a reasonable data sample from the University of Teacher Education Zurich, this study analyzes selected data sources for monitoring routines to calculate quotas for non-represented publications and to make unintentional empty spaces visible. This understanding of empty spaces opens approaches on how to avoid them to ensure resilient open access monitoring. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Key points: Editorials are typically brief comments by a journal's chief editor or associate editors on journal news, study findings, or trends in science or practice.Anonymous editorials, which account for 1%–3% of editorials indexed in PubMed, are those in which the author's name is absent or replaced by the journal's name.Chief editors cannot be assumed to be the authors of anonymous editorials, which causes multiple issues.Anonymous editorials prevent readers from assessing the author's potential conflicts of interest and their credibility for discussing the editorial's topic.Anonymous editorials also make credit and accountability for ideas in editorials difficult to establish and increase likelihood of authorship misattribution.This article proposes that editorials be published with the names, affiliations, and potential conflicts of interests of the individuals who author them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

One of the most dramatic changes in global publishing in the last decade has been the emergence of China. China now has more researchers than the United States, outspends the United States and European Union in research and publishes more scientific papers each year than any other nation in the world. The quality of these papers is also increasing, with more appearing in top‐ranked journals and gaining more citations overall. Despite this success, China has gained an unenviable reputation for research misconduct and geopolitical issues threaten its continuation. Given the impact of China's growing presence on editors, publishers and non‐Chinese authors seeking to publish in the same journals, it is important to understand the reasons, directions and outcomes of these changes, their effect on Chinese scholars and local Chinese journals, and where they might be leading. In this review paper I explore the rise of Chinese scholarship, its influence on global publishing and on Chinese scholars, and how the Chinese government is responding to its new role in global academic publishing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Peer review plays an essential role as one of the cornerstones of the scholarly publishing system. There are many initiatives that aim to improve the way in which peer review is organized, resulting in a highly complex landscape of innovation in peer review. Different initiatives are based on different views on the most urgent challenges faced by the peer review system, leading to a diversity of perspectives on how the system can be improved. To provide a more systematic understanding of the landscape of innovation in peer review, we suggest that the landscape is shaped by four schools of thought: The Quality & Reproducibility school, the Democracy & Transparency school, the Equity & Inclusion school, and the Efficiency & Incentives school. Each school has a different view on the key problems of the peer review system and the innovations necessary to address these problems. The schools partly complement each other, but we argue that there are also important tensions between them. We hope that the four schools of thought offer a useful framework to facilitate conversations about the future development of the peer review system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article contributes to the discussion on the relationship between views, citations, number of references, number of authors, number of countries and the Altmetric Attention Score (AAS). The aim is to identify the metric most likely to complement traditional citations in scholarly publishing in chemistry. We used the publications in a top multi-disciplinary chemistry journal, the Journal of the American Chemical Society, for a three-year period for this study. We identified whether materials that are highly viewed correlates with higher number of citations and higher Altmetric Attention Scores; high AAS correlates with higher number of views and higher number of citations; higher number of citations correlates with higher number of views and higher AAS; (multi-authored works correlate with higher AAS, higher number of views and/or higher number of citations; and authors from more than one country correlate with higher number of views, higher citations and higher AAS. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article provides a critical introduction to a double issue of Journal of Visual Art Practice. The issue, titled 'Situations of Writing', explores the intersections of art practice, hybrid forms of writing, and knowledge production. It draws together a variety of contributions that variously delve into the complexities of writing with and around images, emphasising experimental approaches, and reimagining traditional scholarly publishing. This introduction situates the key problematics, drawing upon historical examples, but within the present-day context of academic, digital publishing. The editors urge practitioners to challenge conventional modes of academic writing, inviting makers, authors and readers to have a stake in an evolving landscape of art practice and visual culture studies. Setting out a combined exploration (and making) of form, content, and the structures of address, this special issue paves the way for new possibilities in scholarly research and knowledge dissemination. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Author contracts in scholarly publishing serve to outline the rights and permissions for each party in the use and redistribution of a work throughout the life of its copyright term. Although rights and licensing expectations for open access publishing--the "open access ethos"--have been detailed in the Budapest Declaration, Plan S Principles, and other documentation, studies that explore the implementation of these ideals in contracts between authors and publishers have been limited in focus and scope. This study seeks to initiate a holistic approach toward evaluating open access journal agreements that is not limited by region or discipline, with the aim of discerning best practices as well as delineating common points of deviation. The authors distributed a survey to contacts from journals in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), including both journals with and without a DOAJ Seal. The results suggest that DOAJ Seal status is central to alignment with the open access ethos and that there is more misunderstanding about the importance of copyright and licensing terms than shown in previous research. This research contributes to discussions pursuing a future of open access publishing that supports authors' rights as a central tenet. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Research outputs are a form of testimony with researchers serving as expert testifiers. Research outputs align with philosophical understandings of testimony, as research represents an everyday, informal communicative act. If research outputs are a form of testimony, they are open to ethical and epistemic critique. The open access (OA) article processing charge (APC) in the Global South serves as an apt topic for this critique. The APC is a financial barrier to publication for Southern researchers, and thus raises problems around epistemic and testimonial injustice. The second half of this paper examines a variety of equity issues in prestige scholarly publishing and OA APCs, which are then more fully illustrated by the development of a hypothetical testimonial injustice case study focused on a researcher working in Latin America. Ultimately, I propose the following argument: If people use journal rankings as a guide to which testimony they should take seriously and the OA APC publishing model systematically excludes researchers from the Global South on non-meritocratic grounds, then the OA APC publishing model contributes to testimonial injustice. This paper is a philosophical, theory-based discussion that contributes to research about equitable systems of scholarship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study adds to a series investigating the publication patterns of refereed articles in Library and Information Science (LIS) journals by United States academic librarians (USALs). The first study covered 1993-97, and subsequent studies continued in five-year increments. This study presents data and metrics for 2013-17 from fifty-two journals: thirty studied since 1998, seven added in 2003, and fifteen added in 2013. Over the years, the proportion of articles by USALs has decreased, despite evidence that USAL publishing is increasing. This difference suggests that other segments of LIS publishing are increasing faster than USAL publishing. The percentages of coau-thorship and USALs who publish three or more articles in five years have increased. Large public research universities with librarians who have faculty status and tenure continue to be the most productive, but evidence suggests an increasing number of academic libraries are contributing to the LIS journal literature. The percentages of USAL and non-USAL articles in the journals studied since 1998 and those studied since 2003 or 2013 point to differences in growth among journals, the importance of new journals, and changes in affiliations of USAL authors and where USALs publish. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The importance of the "quality culture" has been increasing more and more in the efforts aiming internalizing quality in managerial and organizationalactivities. The main purposes of this study are to reveal the way and frequency of the quality culture issue in the academic literature, to identify the characteristics of the studies carried 849out, and in addition, to contribute to the literature by compiling national-scale studies on the subject. For these purposes, the studies titled "quality culture" were searched in Dergipark, Google Scholar and YÖK National Thesis Center and scientific studies titled "quality culture" published in academic research journals, master's and doctoral theses in Türkiye between 1990-2022 (October). Source types of publications, publication year, publication frequency, author information, universities and institutes, and breakdown of publications by departments, etc. properties were examined using the bibliometric analysis method. A total of 29 scientific studies, including 14 master's theses, 3 doctoral theses, 9 articles and 3 conference publications were reached and studied. It has been revealed that studies on quality culture are mostly carried out at the master's thesis level, the distribution of publications by years is uneven, and these studies are very inadequate compared to studies in both the field of business and social sciences and education. It is expected that this study will raise the awareness about the quality culture and provide an overview of the relevant national literature and serve as a roadmap for future research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: This paper aims to analyze open access (OA) scholarly publishing patterns as well as OA policies and mandates across European countries. Design/methodology/approach: The study is based on a descriptive research approach using data from Web resources, directories and bibliographic and citation databases, namely, DOAJ, OpenDOAR, SCImago journal and Country Ranking portal, ROARMAP and Web of Science. Findings: The findings indicate that the initiatives and measures in Europe that promote OA are adequate. OA journals and digital repositories have progressively increased over the past two decades. Of the total journals (n = 25,231) published worldwide and indexed in Scopus, 53% are published in European countries, with 23.7% being OA journals. In total, 34% of the OA repositories (n = 5,714) are in European countries. The proportion of OA journal papers has grown significantly in all European countries, with a 14.3% annual growth rate. The average proportion of OA publications in European countries is significantly higher (39.07%) than the world average (30.16%), with a clear inclination for making research literature openly accessible via the green OA route (79.41%) compared to the gold OA route (52.30%). Most European research funders and institutions have required researchers to make OA available for their research findings, either by publishing them in OA journals or depositing accepted manuscripts in repositories. Research limitations/implications: The study analyzed OA trends in Europe; other continents and countries were not included in the analysis. The study only described OA policies and mandates; the extent to which the OA policies and mandates were implemented was not studied. However, the results of the study may be helpful to policymakers, funders, research institutions and universities in other countries in adopting and implementing OA policies and mandates. Originality/value: To the best of the authors' knowledge, the study is the first that used multiple data sources for investigating different facets of OA publishing in European countries, including OA journals, digital repositories, research output, mandates and policies for publicly funded research. The findings will be helpful for researchers and policymakers interested in promoting OA adoption among researchers worldwide. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: When authorship disputes arise in academic publishing, research institutions may be asked to investigate the circumstances. We evaluated the association between the prevalence of misattributed authorship and trust in the institution involved. Methods: We measured trust using a newly validated Opinion on the Institution's Research and Publication Values (OIRPV) scale (range 1–4). Mayer and Davies' Organizational Trust for Management Instrument served as control. Association between publication misconduct, gender, institution type, policies, and OIRPV-derived Trust Scores were evaluated. Results: A total of 197 responses were analyzed. Increased reporting of authorship misconduct, such as gift authorship, author displacement within the authors' order on the byline, and ghost authorship, were associated with low Trust Scores (P<0.001). Respondents from institutions whose administration had made known (declared or published) their policy on authorship in academic publications awarded the highest Trust Scores (median 3.06, interquartile range 2.25 to 3.56). Only 17.8% favored their administration as the best authority to investigate authorship dispute honestly. Of those who did not list the administration as their preferred option for resolving disputes, 58.6% (95/162) provided a Trust Score <2.5, which conveys mistrust in the institution. Conclusions: Increased reporting of publication misconducts such as gift authorship, author displacement within the order of the authors' byline, and ghost authorship was associated with lower Trust Scores in the research institutions. Institutions that made their policies known were awarded the highest Trust Scores. Our results question whether the research institutions' administrations are the appropriate authority for clarifying author disputes in all cases. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An editorial is presented in the final issue of Political Theory by the current editorial team, expressing gratitude and reflecting on their three-year tenure. Topics include the transition to a new editorial team, acknowledgment of contributors, and a plea for continued support from scholars, particularly in the context of declining manuscript reviewers during the pandemic.

The South African Journal of Science monthly Journal Writing and Peer Review Forum is an open platform targeted at early career researchers who may be new to the publication and peer review process. This Commentary reflects on 10 frequently asked questions (FAQs) in the Forum and considers the collective response of the editorial team in helping to address each question in detail. The FAQs highlight some common concerns and uncertainties among new researchers, notably the issue of predatory publishing, turnaround time, and questions surrounding peer review. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the article the editors discuss the impact of the journal "American Political Science Review (APSR)" based on the journal impact factor (JIF) metric created by the late Eugene Garfield. Topics include discussion on JIF, performance of APSR according to JIF, and complementary approaches to measuring the journal's impact.

Arab early career researchers (ECRs) are strongly encouraged to actively participate in scholarly communication activities, as it not only enhances their academic standing but also facilitates career advancement and garnering recognition from both the scientific community and the broader public. Nevertheless, the constantly evolving landscape of scholarly communication has imposed significant challenges on researchers. This paper is dedicated to an examination of the scholarly communication practices of early career researchers in Egypt, with the overarching objective of providing insights into the transformations occurring within the scholarly communication framework, particularly within the context of developing nations. In our paper, we employed a quantitative research design to scrutinize the scholarly communication system in Egypt. This endeavor encompassed the distribution of questionnaires to early career researchers hailing from prominent Egyptian universities, resulting in a total of 441 respondents representing various academic institutions across the country. Our analysis revealed that junior scholars predominantly adhere to conventional scholarly methodologies in their research pursuits. This conformity is, in part, attributed to the promotion system in Egypt, which places considerable emphasis on established practices, such as single-author publication, while discouraging the utilization of informal channels for garnering recognition and accolades. The findings of this study furnish us with a more profound comprehension of the prevailing scholarly system in Egypt, which in turn can serve as a foundation for potential system enhancement. It is imperative to acknowledge, however, that this study is not without limitations. The response rate could not be precisely quantified due to the online dissemination of the questionnaires, and the distribution of respondents across diverse scholarly disciplines exhibited significant disparities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines research on article processing charges (APCs) to understand the extent of attention given by researchers and assess the status. The study analyses document types, source types, source titles, affiliations, and open access types of APC research. It also explores countries of researchers' affiliations, volume and growth of literature, and visualizes keywords based on data from Scopus. The study utilized data from the Scopus database, known as the world's largest abstract and citation database of scientific literature, to analyze article processing charges (APCs). Some analysis were carried out using inbuilt facility in Scopus while visualization and mapping were executed using Vosviewer. A total of 460 papers in 25 years, averaging 17.7 papers per year, demonstrate significant attention to this area. Many papers addressing APC were published in Green Open Access sources. Researchers from all subject categories in Scopus have contributed to APC research, but the major focus of research in the area is library and information science. Interestingly, researchers outside the field, notably from biomedicine and computer science, have also contributed significantly, reflecting interdisciplinary engagement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study investigates the relationship between scholarly journal publishing and public funding, specifically concerning the context of small- and mid-sized journal publishers in European countries. As part of the movement towards open science, an increasing number of journals globally are free to both read and publish in, which increases the need for journals to seek other resources instead of subscription income. The study includes two separate components, collecting data separately for each European country (including transcontinental states): (1) the volume and key bibliometric characteristics of small- and mid-sized journal publishers and (2) information about country-level public funding mechanisms for scholarly journals. The study found that there are 16,387 journals from small- and mid-sized publishers being published in European countries, of which 36 per cent are already publishing open access. There is a large diversity in how countries reserve and distribute funds to journals, ranging from continuous inclusive subsidies to competitive grant funding or nothing at all. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Âzerî İbrahim Çelebi was an important poet of the second half of the 16th century. Âzerî, known for his mathnawi titled Nakş-ı Hayâl, belonged to a well-established family of scholars. The poet, who died young, is reported to have a diwan in some sources. However, a copy of his diwan has not yet appeared. Âzerî's many poems in ghazal and musammat style found a place in the poetical miscellanies of the period and were also published in some academic studies. The least known poems of the poet are his qasidas. 11 qasidas of Âzerî have been identified in five poetical miscellanies. Five different researchers have Latinized the texts of nine of these poems based on a single copy. This article includes the rest of his qasidas for the first time. Five of Âzerî Çelebi's qasidas were written in praise of Sultan Selîm II. The poet also wrote one ode each about Sultan Murâd III, Hoca Sa'deddîn, Bostanzâde Mehmed Efendi, Sokollu Mehmed Pasha, and Nişancı Mahmûd Çelebi. It is not known for whom a qasida was written. This article consists of three parts. In the first part, the life and works of Âzerî are emphasized. Based on the mühimme book numbered 51, some essential details about the poet's private life have been pointed out. In the second part, the poetical miscellanies containing the qasida are introduced, and information is given about the method followed in the text edition. Afterward, evaluations were made about Azeri Çelebi's published qasidas. After the qasidas were examined in terms of their content, their form, language, and style features were emphasized. The last part presents the critical texts of eight qasidas and the Latinized texts of three qasidas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article reexamines Sylvester 'Pat' Weaver's plans for cultural uplift via NBC television in the 1950s. His ambitions have been the subject of much scholarly research, which often notes his 'Operation Frontal Lobes' as influential, citing academic articles published in the 1990s as authoritative. However, contemporary documents show that the 'Frontal Lobes' project never succeeded and the effort became an embarrassment to the network. Taking advantage of searchable, digitized newspapers, magazines, and trade publications and reviewing materials in the NBC archives in Wisconsin, this article attempts a more nuanced understanding of Weaver's influence on NBC programming. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article examines the indifference to the language of scholarly or academic research journals amid the critiques from scholars such as Jonathan Rosa who have drawn attention to raciolinguistic and racist ideologies supporting accepted norms for published research prose. Topics include the author's brief account of her revision of the stylesheet for the journal "Monatshefte" after taking over as editor, her thoughts on the politics of citation and arguments on reproducing harmful language.