An Expert Group appointed by the European Commission identifies reform of the scholarly incentive system as a key requirement for the continuing improvement of research communication.
Academic review committees would benefit from more details about the contributions made by individual researchers to papers with multiple authors, and also from more information about other types of scholarly communication.
Juan P Alperin, Carol Muñoz Nieves ... Erin C McKiernan
An analysis of review, promotion and tenure documents from 129 US and Canadian universities suggests institutions could better fulfill their public missions by changing how they incentivize the public dimensions of faculty work.
Daniel S Himmelstein, Ariel Rodriguez Romero ... Casey S Greene
The availability of almost all articles from toll access journals in the Sci-Hub repository will disrupt scholarly publishing towards more open models.
Erin C McKiernan, Lesley A Schimanski ... Juan P Alperin
Almost a quarter of faculty evaluation documents from US and Canadian universities mention Journal Impact Factor and often imply that it measures research quality.
Gary S McDowell, John D Knutsen ... Rebeccah S Lijek
Early career researchers commonly peer review manuscripts on behalf of invited reviewers, often without receiving feedback or being named to the journal.
