#bibliometrics — Public Fediverse posts

An OpenAlex working group chaired by Alperin suggests replacing the diamond/gold/green/hybrid/bronze system with labels for access, location, and license.
The goal is to separate information on the publisher's business model from the article's access status.

This is the full report: https://zenodo.org/records/21934115

#OpenAlex #OpenAccess #Bibliometrics

Our new 📄 in Current Alzheimer Research looks at a strange, and worrying, phenomenon in scientific writing: tortured phrases. Instead of blood-brain barrier, some papers use bizarre alternatives like blood-brain obstruction or blood-cerebrum boundary.

:doi: https://doi.org/10.2174/0115672050460224260206052444

These are not just language errors, they can signal deeper issues such as weak #PeerReview or even #PaperMills.

#OpenScience #ResearchIntegrity #Bibliometrics #Neuroethics #AcademicPublishing

Poster session at PUBMET 2024 starts with @crossref's Madhura Amdekar, describing reference linking, Similarity Check (using iThenticate), & Crossmark, a button on articles that links to updates/corrections. Crossref also acquired Retraction Watch's database last year.

Centred on DOIs, rich metadata gives context to help assess trustworthiness.

#CrossRef #MetaData #ResearchIntegrity #PublicationEthics #Citations #PersistentIdentifiers #DOIs #Bibliometrics #TrustMarkers #Retractions #PUBMET2024

review of landslide susceptibility studies focused on LULC.

The development of this study had the collaboration of researchers from ESPOL/CIPAT-ESPOL, Ecuador, Universidad de Almería, Spain,
and University of Potsdam, Germany.

Thank you very much Andrés Velástegui Montoya, Néstor Montalván, Fernando Morante-Carballo, Oliver Korup, and Camilo Daleles Rennó.

#LULC #LUCC #landslide #landslidesusceptibility #susceptibility #Disaster #review #bibliometrics #academicresearch #phd #doctorate