quarta-feira, 17 de fevereiro de 2021

‘Nepotistic journals’__Uncovering how some Academics unethically benefit from their editorial membership

 

"5468 journals that published 4.986.335 papers between 2015 and 2019 were analysed...Our results reveal a subset of journals where a few authors, often members of the editorial board, were responsible for a disproportionate number of publications. The papers by these authors were more likely to be accepted for publication within 3 weeks of their submission"


PS - For how much longer will the scientific community be so dependent on The Most Profitable Obsolete Technology in History’ ?