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michaelschoon.com
Recently an article in Science surveyed open access journals and found a number of distressing findings with respect to the peer review process. An overview is available at:http://www.scidev.net/global/publishing/news/sting-exposes-wild-west-of-open-access-publishing.html?utm_content=bufferb2a6d&utm_source=buffer&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Buffer The original version in Science is at:http://www.sciencemag.org/content/342/6154/60.full As the Science article acknowledges, the same results could be found if we did a survey of traditional journals as... |
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gowers.wordpress.com
There is widespread (even if not universal) agreement that something is deeply wrong with the current system of academic publishing. The basic point, which has been made innumerable times by innumerable people, is that the really hard parts -- the writing of papers, and the peer review and selection of the ones to publish --... |
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paolocrosetto.wordpress.com
Edit April 20th, 2021: thanks to Christos Petrou I found a bug in my code. I was considering both "Section" and "Collection" articles as Speical Issue. The whole analysis has been changed to accommodate the new data. I also acknowledged in the text the arguments of Volker Beckmann, who develops a coherent defense of MDPI... |
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jwsr.pitt.edu
[AI summary] This academic article analyzes the global commodity chain of the Apple iPad, arguing that its economic success relies on extracting hidden 'dark value' from Chinese labor and ecology, which is then captured as consumer surplus by buyers in the core economy. |
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