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  1. 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: zenodo.org/records/21934115

    #OpenAlex #OpenAccess #Bibliometrics

  2. 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: doi.org/10.2174/01156720504602

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

    #OpenScience #ResearchIntegrity #Bibliometrics #Neuroethics #AcademicPublishing

  3. 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

  4. 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