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New Issue Available Online!
Journal of Scholarly Publishing
Volume 49, No. 3, April 2018
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Losing Our Modesty: The Content and Communication of Peer Review
The one quality claimed universally by all forms of scholarly publishing, and that distinguishes this form of publishing from all others, is the practice of assuring some means of prior review and critique of proposed publications by readers qualified to make informed judgments of a work's credibility and contribution to a field or discipline. Peer review—the shorthand way of describing this practice—has long been simply assumed by readers and claimed by scholarly publishers, without any means of disclosing to readers the nature of the review undertaken or the specific object that was reviewed.
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Journal Retractions: Some Unique Features of Research Misconduct in China
This study used data from the Retraction Watch website and from published reports on retractions and paper mills to summarize key features of research misconduct in China. Compared with publicized cases of falsified or fabricated data by authors from other countries of the world, the number of Chinese academics exposed for research misconduct has increased dramatically in recent years. Chinese authors do not have to generate fake data or fake peer reviews for themselves because paper mills in China will do the work for them for a price. Major retractions of articles by authors from China were all announced by international publishers. In contrast, there are few reports of retractions announced by China's domestic publishers. China's publication requirements for physicians seeking promotions and its leniency toward research misconduct are two major factors promoting the boom of paper mills in China.
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Chinese Early-Career Researchers' Scholarly Communication Attitudes and Behaviours: Changes Observed in Year Two of a Longitudinal Study
Jie Xu, David Nicholas, Yuanxiang Zeng, Jing Su, Anthony Watkinson
This paper presents research into the scholarly communication attitudes and behaviours of Chinese early-career researchers (ECRs). This research comes from year two of a projected three-year-long study of ECRs from seven countries (China, France, Malaysia, Poland, Spain, the UK, and the US), for which semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted with study participants. For the findings reported in this paper, fourteen Chinese ECRs from science and social science disciplines at six different universities were interviewed during the period from March to May 2017. The interview record was compared with the previous year's (2016) record to identify changes in interviewees' responses to a battery of questions.
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Digital Open Annotation with Hypothesis: Supplying the Missing Capability of the Web
Hypothesis is an open-source technology developed by a non-profit organization that enables a conversation across all the content on the Web, a rich and interconnected exchange that goes well beyond experiments with past commenting tools. The publication of annotation as a Web standard by the World Wide Web Consortium in February 2017 paves the way to bring digital annotation natively to browsers, fulfilling an original vision for networked information laid out by Vannevar Bush in 1945. Publishers are exploring annotation to facilitate post-publication discussion layers, add author or expert commentary as supplemental content, and streamline the peer-review process. Researchers are using annotation for fact verification, entity extraction, precise citation, and preprint collaboration. Annotation technology enables the creation of unique persistent Web addresses that are much more precise than page-level URLs, thus opening up new workflow possibilities in scholarly communications and beyond.
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