TY - JOUR AU - Figueroa, Ana Magdalena AU - Chukwuma, Nzube AU - Ngcayisa, Lumanyano TI - Emerging Scholars in Academia: An Analysis of the Impact of IAPSS Politikon in the Academic Careers of Its Authors JF - PUBLICATIONS J2 - PUBLICATIONS VL - 11 PY - 2023 IS - 1 PG - 17 SN - 2304-6775 DO - 10.3390/publications11010012 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34034866 ID - 34034866 AB - This paper analyzes students, recent graduates, and emerging scholars' involvement in academic publishing, specifically by studying the impact of their publications in Politikon, the International Association for Political Science Students' Journal, and their academic careers. The results of a standardized self-administered survey serve to assess authors' motivations and impact of publish ing with IAPSS Politikon. The data show that publishing with Politikon has helped emerging researchers get more experience concerning the publication process and has improved their research, writing, and analyzing skills. Additionally, an essential part of them said they increased their educational background or obtained a new higher position after publishing with Politikon. In fact, 50 per cent of these scholars said they were promoted after publishing with the journal. Furthermore, Politikon, establishes a platform for Global South scholarship to be at the forefront of Political Science/International Relations debates and knowledge production. This implies the importance of Politikon in the early career of scholars by giving them the right tools to develop professionally and by reaching scholars from all around the world, especially from the Global South in an effort to contribute to global international relations and global governance reform. LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Yamada, Yuki AU - Teixeira da Silva, Jaime A. TI - A psychological perspective towards understanding the objective and subjective gray zones in predatory publishing JF - QUALITY AND QUANTITY: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF METHODOLOGY J2 - QUAL QUANT VL - 56 PY - 2022 IS - 6 SP - 4075 EP - 4087 PG - 13 SN - 0033-5177 DO - 10.1007/s11135-021-01307-3 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34034881 ID - 34034881 AB - A continued lack of clarity persists because academics, policymakers, and other interested parties are unable to clearly define what is a “predatory” journal or publisher, and a potentially wide gray zone exists there. In this perspective, we argue that journals should be evaluated on a continuum, and not just in two shades, black and white. Since evaluations about what might constitute “predatory” are made by humans, the psychological decision-making system that determines them may induce biases. Considering such human psychological characteristics might shed light on the deterministic criteria that have been used, and continue to be used, to classify a journal or publisher as “predatory”, and perhaps, bring additional clarity to this discussion. Better methods of journal evaluation can be obtained when the factors that polarize journal evaluations are identified. As one example, we need to move away from simply using whitelists and blacklists and educate individual researchers about how to evaluate journals. This paper serves as an educational tool by providing more clarity about the “gray” publishing zone, and argues that currently available qualitative and quantitative systems should be fused to deterministically appreciate the zonation of white, gray and black journals, so as to possibly reduce or eliminate the influence of cognitive or “perception” bias from the “predatory” publishing debate. LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Abalkina, Anna TI - Detecting a network of hijacked journals by its archive JF - SCIENTOMETRICS J2 - SCIENTOMETRICS VL - 126 PY - 2021 IS - 8 SP - 7123 EP - 7148 PG - 26 SN - 0138-9130 DO - 10.1007/s11192-021-04056-0 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34034869 ID - 34034869 AB - This study describes a method for identifying hijacked journal domains based on an analysis of the archives of clone journals. This method is based on the argument that fraudulent publishers recycle identical papers to create a fictitious archive for a hijacked journal. A Google Custom Search API is used to search the details of papers published in hijacked journals (title/authors/affiliation) and provide links to where similar texts were published. An analysis of the archives of hijacked journals facilitates the detection of 62 clone websites of 57 authentic journals. It also enabled the prediction of two hijacked journal websites before they became operational. This study shows that the majority of detected hijacked journals are within a network of clone journals organized by the same fraudulent individual(s). The information and content of nine out of the 57 examined legitimate journals have been compromised in international and national scientometric databases by hijackers, which poses a challenge for the international academic community. LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Filho, Walter Leal AU - Wall, Tony AU - Salvia, Amanda Lange AU - Frankenberger, Fernanda AU - Hindley, Ann AU - Mifsud, Mark AU - Brandli, Luciana AU - Will, Markus TI - Trends in scientific publishing on sustainability in higher education JF - JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION J2 - J CLEAN PROD VL - 296 PY - 2021 PG - 10 SN - 0959-6526 DO - 10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.126569 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34034872 ID - 34034872 AB - It is widely acknowledged that research and publications in peer reviewed journals offer important metrics in describing the academic outputs of higher education institutions on one hand, and their societal impacts on the other. Peer review is a well-tested method for quality control and has been successfully deployed over many decades in academic journals worldwide. But despite the fact that publications on matters related to sustainable development offer solid evidence of academic activity and excellence, there is a dearth of literature in this field. In order to address this need, the European School of Sustainability Science and Research (ESSSR) and the Inter-University Sustainable Development Research Programme (IUSDRP) have undertaken the World Survey on Sustainability Publishing and Research in Higher Education (WSSSP-HEI). The paper has two main aims. The first is to document and showcase trends in scientific publishing on matters related to sustainable development. The second aim is to contribute to a greater understanding of this rapidly growing field, by describing the latest developments and the role played by some of the journals active in this area. Consistent with these aims, this paper focuses on publications on sustainability in higher education, describes the methods used in the study and some of its results. It can be seen that despite the intrinsic value of research on sustainable development in higher education as a whole, and of publications in this field in particular, such practices are not as widely developed as one could expect. This paper discusses the possible reasons and also outlines some measures via which higher education institutions may be able to take more advantage of the many opportunities that publishing on sustainability offers to them. (c) 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Frandsen, Tove Faber AU - Jacobsen, Rasmus Hojbjerg AU - Nicolaisen, Jeppe AU - Ousager, Jakob TI - Pressure to publish: a bibliometric study of PhD students (1993-2009) JF - INFORMATION RESEARCH-AN INTERNATIONAL ELECTRONIC JOURNAL J2 - INFORM RES VL - 24 PY - 2019 IS - 4 PG - 12 SN - 1368-1613 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34034877 ID - 34034877 AB - Introduction. Academic advancements as well as funding depend on publications and thus pressure researchers to publish. The perception of the pressure to publish is tied to career stage. The uncertain future careers of PhD-students and postdocs cause them to be more aware of publication pressure.Method. Using a data set of health sciences PhD-students from the University of Southern Denmark, this paper investigates whether the productivity and citation impact of PhD-students has increased over time. We use a pseudo-experimental matching method to ensure that former and contemporary PhD-students have similar characteristics as measured by a number of balancing variables.Analysis. The matching method enables us to estimate productivity and impact by an ordinary t-test using standard statistical software packages.Results. Collectively, after completion of the PhD-program the PhD-students from the new cohort publish more than the PhD-students from the old cohort. The results of the citation analyses show that on average, the publications by the new cohort from years 1 through 5 after graduation receive more citations than the publications by the old cohort. Yet, when comparing normalized and fractionalized citation counts, the cohorts are remarkably similar.Conclusions. PhD-students have increased their publication rate although the citation rates have not changed. LA - English DB - MTMT ER -