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Desde a implementação generalizada de periódicos on-line e a introdução do acesso aberto há mais de uma década, o ritmo da inovação na publicação de periódicos acadêmicos tem sido lento. Mais recentemente, no entanto, uma série de inovações apareceu na publicação de periódicos, que têm o potencial de causar mudanças de longo alcance no modo como comunicamos informação científica. Entre essas tendências está o surgimento dos Megajournals e, em particular do PLoS ONE, que nos últimos anos veio a dominar periódicos em acesso aberto. Estes periódico, embora revisados por pares nos aspectos de solidez e metodológica científica, aceitam uma ampla variedade de artigos, sobre os quais perguntas como “Qual a importância do trabalho” ou “é relevante para o público” não são critérios para a rejeição, como em muitos outros periódicos. Muitas vezes ligado a Megajournals estão casos de periódicos em cascata, onde o publisher tem um periódico com uma marca forte e muitas submissões. Since the widespread implementation of online journals and the introduction of open access more than a decade ago, the pace of innovation in academic journal publishing has been slow. More recently however a number of innovations have appeared in journal publishing, which have the potential to cause far reaching changes in how we communicate scientific information. Among these trends is the raise of Megajournals and in particular PLoS ONE which have within the last few years come to dominate open access journals. These journals although peer reviewed for scientific and methodological soundness accept a wider variety of articles as questions such as “How important is the work” or “is it relevant to the audience” are not criteria for rejection as in many other journals. Often linked to Megajournals are cases of cascading journals where a publisher has a journal with a strong brand and many submissions. Desde la implementación generalizada de revistas en línea y la introducción del acceso abierto hace más de una década, el ritmo de la innovación en la edición de revistas académicas ha sido lento. Más recientemente, sin embargo, una serie de innovaciones han aparecido en la publicación de revistas, que tienen el potencial de causar cambios de gran alcance en la forma en que comunicamos la información científica. Entre estas tendencias está el aumento de Megarevistas y en particular PLoS ONE que en los últimos años ha llegado a dominar las revistas de acceso abierto. Estas revistas aunque revisadas por pares, por su solidez científica y metodológica aceptan una variedad más amplia de artículos puesto que cuestiones tales como “¿qué tan importante es el trabajo?” o “¿es relevante para el público?” no son criterios para el rechazo como en muchas otras revistas. A menudo vinculadas a Megarevistas están los casos de las revistas en cascada donde una editorial tiene una revista con una marca sólida y muchas presentaciones.
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Megajournals and other innovations in academic
journal publishing
Hooman MomenCoordinator WHO Press
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Statistics about scientific journalsStatistics about scientific journals
Over 10,000 journal publishers
Publishing more than 25,000 journals
1.5 million articles per year
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Mega-JournalsMega-Journals
Aims to publish any article that meets the test of scientific rigour.
– Technically sound in method and conclusions– Peer review
Eschews any measure of importance or impact in its editorial and peer review process.
– no need for conceptual advance, novelty or impact– negative results are accepted– results with a narrow community of interest.
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PLOS ONEPLOS ONELaunched in December 2006
In 2007 published 1,231 articles
Today largest journal in the World– published over 60,000 articles
In 2012– 23,464 articles published– 60,000 reviewers from 154 countries– 4000 articles from Chinese authors– Over 2% of content in Pubmed– >30,000 articles in 2013
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PLOS ONE criteria for publication PLOS ONE criteria for publication
The study presents the results of primary scientific research. Results reported have not been published elsewhere. Experiments, statistics, and other analyses are performed to a high
technical standard and are described in sufficient detail. Conclusions are presented in an appropriate fashion and are
supported by the data. The article is presented in an intelligible fashion and is written in
standard English. The research meets all applicable standards for the ethics of
experimentation and research integrity. The article adheres to appropriate reporting guidelines and
community standards for data availability.
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PLOS ONE Impact factorPLOS ONE Impact factor
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Scientific ReportsScientific Reports
Published by Nature Publishing Group
Publishes in all areas of the natural sciences
Impact factor 2.93, Acceptance rate 55%
fee USD 1,350.
Launched in 2011 (over 2500 papers published)– Currently over 200 papers per month
Cascades articles from other Nature journals.
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(Mega) - journals(Mega) - journals AIP Advances (AIP) Impact factor 1.35, fee USD 1,350
BMJ Open (BMJ) Impact Factor 1.58, fee UKL 1,500
Open Biology (Royal Society), fee USD 0
Cell Reports (Cell Press) fee USD 5000
Biology Open ( Company of Biologists) fee USD 1,350
Springer Plus (Springer) fee USD 1135
Sage Open (Sage) fee USD 99
F1000 Research (Faculty of 1000) fee USD 1000
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eLife eLife
Funders taking responsibility for publishing:– Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Max Planck Society, Wellcome
Trust – Publication costs are research costs
Current publishing system – particularly the top tier journals –not working in the best interest of researchers
No fees, published about 300 articles
Driving innovation in the way research is communicated – publish outstanding science under an open-access license– create an editorial process that is decisive, fair and efficient– Fully utilize digital media in the presentation of new research
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PeerJPeerJAn Open Access, peer-reviewed, scholarly journal.
– Launched in 2013
Operates a 'Lifetime Membership' model.– 3 Membership tiers, each conferring different rights. – Starting at USD 99.00
Encourages Open Peer-Review– authors given the option to post the full peer-review history of
their submission alongside their published article
157 articles published in 2013 (Sept)
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PLOS CurrentsPLOS CurrentsPLOS Currents is an innovative, online publication channel,
peer-reviewed; citable; publicly archived in PubMed.
A single, integrated direct-authoring and publishing platform - complete control over the formatting and appearance of Author published work.
Streamlined peer review process
Submission reviewed in a matter of days and published immediately after editorial acceptance
Uses Annotum (WordPress) platform
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Hindawi PublishingHindawi PublishingPublishing company based in Cairo, Egypt.
In 2012, published more than 22,000 articles with total revenue of about $13m.
This is about $600 per published article.
results for the first half of 2012 show revenues of $6.3m with a net profit of $3.3m.
Profit margin of 52%. Much better than Elsevier (36% profit margin on revenue).
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Profit marginsProfit marginsElsevier: £724m on revenue of £2b — 36%
Springer‘s Science+Business Media: £294m on revenue of £866m — 33.9%
John Wiley & Sons: $106m on revenue of $253m — 42%
Academic division of Informa plc: £47m on revenue of £145m — 32.4%
Apple’s best ever reported profit margin was 24%. Exxon makes 6.5%.
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Chinese authorsChinese authors
According to SCI– In 2011, authors of 9.5% of scientific papers indexed in SCI.– More than a million papers published in last decade.
Salaries, grants and promotions tied to publication in SCI journals
Nearly 20% of papers published in PLOS One in 2012– More than 4 million USD in revenue from Chinese authors
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Who's afraid of Peer ReviewWho's afraid of Peer Review
Spoof paper concocted by Science journalist, J. Bohannon– mundane scientific paper, with grave errors that a competent peer
reviewer could easily identify as flawed and unpublishable.
304 versions submitted to different OA journals /publishers
Over 50% of journals accepted
Among publishers accepting paper: Elsevier, Wolters Kluwer, Sage
Among publishers rejecting paper: PloS, Hindawi
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Beall's List of Predatory Publishers Beall's List of Predatory Publishers
Provision of funding to meet OA costs has encouraged growth of new OA journals
Last year's list included 23 publishers
and this year's has over 225,
evidence of the rapid growth in the number of predatory journals and publishers.
http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/
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What authors need to look for What authors need to look for Serious reviewers? feedback from a qualified journal editor?
Good copyediting? Self-archiving rights?
Effective distribution and active promotion of the journal?
A definite/known/knowable target audience?
Print-on-demand or print issue options?
Clear and attractive publication contracts?
Suitably-measured/meaningful impact factors? Indexed journals?
Active link referencing? Supplementary data storage?
Reader feedback management?
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SciELOSciELO
The database contains journals from over 15 different countries in free and universal access, full-text format.
1.069 Journals
30.190 journal issues
444.056 articles
Nearly 10,000,000 citations
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Article-Level Metrics Article-Level Metrics
Citations– ISI, Scopus, Google Scholar, PubMed Central, CrossRef
Article usage– Page views, downloads
Media and blog coverage about the article
Social tools– Social bookmarks e.g. Connotea, Twitter, Facebook etc.
Reader evaluation
