scholarly journals Lay summaries of open access journal articles: engaging with the general public on medical research

2014 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 173-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Nunn ◽  
Stephen Pinfield
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Medical Research ◽  
General Public ◽  
Open Access Journal ◽  
Journal Articles

Clinical Research and Medical Journal

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (01) ◽  
pp. 5-6
Author(s):  
Jitendra Shrestha
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Medical Journal ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Health System ◽  
Medical Research ◽  
Health Research ◽  
Research Output ◽  
Open Access Journal ◽  
The World

Health system should be supported by health research to deliver quality, accountable, equitable, fairer, better health care to target population.1  Earlier; defenseless people like prisoners, soldiers, poor and mentally ill along with animals were subjected to medical research without taking consent. As time pass by, new emerging health problems, shifting of epidemiological trends in disease patterns, rapid increase in population, new and emerging health problems, increasing commercial interests of private health sector and shrinking resources all contribute in inequity to health care.2  Hence it is extremely important that research addresses priorities and focuses on the most important health issues and conditions. Research must serve as a driver for health system, policies and practice. For this to happen, the health research systems should be fully accountable for sake of transparency and also have to be capable of delivering the desired returns. We are fortune to take benefit from documented experiences from history. The main goal of medical research article is to share one’s valuable experience so as to contribute to the progress of science.3  Conducting a medical research and publishing it in a medical journal, is sharing an important knowledge and experience to the world. A physician from one part of the world may have significant load of certain disease and sharing management experience in that particular disease may help doctors of other part of the world treat such kind of patient. Furthermore, author may also have individual benefits, like higher positions in academic hierarchy.4  The Journal of the institution reflects the academics wealth of the institute. Earlier, only few used to grab opportunities for professional growth via publication, majority of them suffer to lack of publication culture in the institution resulting in fossilization of their professional caliber.5  In developing countries like ours, to do quality medical research is often difficult. Furthermore, getting the article published in medical journal is another challenge. Leading international medical journals underreport on health research priorities for developing countries because of improper material, methods quality. Many factors play role in the paucity of inclusion of research papers from developing countries. Lack of resources like funding, proper man power and less access to scientific literature in similar setting leading to poor research output, faulty manuscript preparation and language proficiency may be the common problems. Inadequate laboratory facilities and training may be the other cause. Hence, researchers in developing countries should be supported and encouraged to produce material of the quality by proper guidance and required trainings. Open access journal is the window to the research world. It is one of the tools to increase publications. These journals facilitate the publication of local research output and may play defining role in helping researcher to improve their publication records, and make it accessible to other researchers. This type of open access journal is an important entity in national publishing that will hopefully gain broader prominence as awareness increases and the above efforts are implemented. To make our journal an index and of international stature is strenuous but with the help from our fraternity, we will surely reach the goal soon. Our journal will surely serve as a medium to access information, updated knowledge and a symbol of ideal journal in Nepal.  This journal is the result of hard work, dedication and sacrifice. We apologize for taking this extra long time to publish but as they say ‘good things come to those who wait’ we proudly present you our journal, our masterpiece. No one is to be blamed for the delay of this process. Working with teachers, selecting experts for review, suggesting authors, verifying manuscripts, editing and proof reading was an arduous job but was done meticulously. We run out of words to express our gratitude to the reviewers who reviewed and upgraded the journal’s contents. It is very hard to imagine this journal with their crucial help and guidance. We apologize for not being able to incorporate all the articles due to some academic standards and expectations.  I would also like to take this opportunity to thank Dr. Angel Magar, without whom this journal would be impossible. His valuable guidence help us shape the journal. We shall forever the indebted to him for his support. Dr. Bibek Rajbhandari is another individual we need to thank. His hard work and dedication can be seen in our journal. We are grateful for his help and support. We appreciate everything he has done selflessly and for the betterment of the journal.  We would like to acknowledge Dr. Krishna Rana (JNMA Assistant Editor) and JNMA Trainees (Asmita Neupane, Rakshya Pandey, Suzit Bhusal, Suraj Shrestha, Nabin Sundas, Prastuti Shrestha, Riyaz Shrestha, Prabha Bhandari, Nita Lohala, Samiksha Lamichhane, Sushmita Bhattarai, Laxman Aryal, Barsha Karki and Kajol Ghimire, Sushil Dahal, Shraddha Bhattarai) for the consistent support during the phase of publication.  REFERENCES  Inis C. The WHO Strategy on research for Health. France:WHO,2012.  Santosa A, Wall S,Fottrell E,Hogberg U, Byass P.The Deveopment and experience of epidemological transition theory over four decades: a systematic review. Glob Health Action.2014;7:10.  Mohmoud F, Mohamed F. A practical guide for health researchers. Eastern Mediteranean:WHO Regional Publications, 2004.  Clauset A, Arbesmans, Larremore D. Systematic inequtiy and hierarcy i faculty hiring networks. Sci.Adv.2015;1:e 1400005.  Koul B, Kanwar A (ed.). Toward a Culture of Quality. Vancouver:Common Wealth of Learning, 2006.

Open access journals: a bibliometric study in SSCI

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 79-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tsu-Jui Ma ◽  
Gwo-Guang Lee
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Open Access Journal ◽  
Bibliometric Study ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Publication Trends ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Open Access Journals ◽  
Basic Reference ◽  
Prolific Authors ◽  
Article Citation

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe a bibliometric study of journal articles in Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) related to open access journals. Publication trends from 1993 to 2016, core journals, prolific authors and article citation frequencies were examined to provide librarians and scholars with a basic reference of relevant resources. Design/methodology/approach Among articles published in journals which have been listed in SSCI during 1993-2016, titles were searched for the term “open access journal”. The data were evaluated in response to five research questions concerning topics including publication trends from 1993 to 2016, core journals, prolific authors and article citation frequencies. Findings In total, 115 articles on open access journals were authored by 215 individuals from 1993 to 2016. The 115 articles analyzed were cited 842 times in 57 journals. Originality/value This paper describes a bibliometric study on open access journal publication, which has rarely been performed within the specific context of document supply issues. It provides a foundation for further research on titles as well as resources for librarians and scholars.

scholarly journals Do open access journal articles experience a citation advantage? Results and methodological reflections of an application of multiple measures to an analysis by WoS subject areas

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabel Basson ◽  
Jaco P. Blanckenberg ◽  
Heidi Prozesky
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Open Access Journal ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Single Measure ◽  
Citation Score ◽  
Open Access Journals ◽  
Subject Areas ◽  
Number Of Citations ◽  
Citation Advantage

Abstract This study is one of the first that uses the recently introduced open access (OA) labels in the Web of Science (WoS) metadata to investigate whether OA articles published in Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) listed journals experience a citation advantage in comparison to subscription journal articles, specifically those of which no self-archived versions are available. Bibliometric data on all articles and reviews indexed in WoS, and published from 2013 to 2015, were analysed. In addition to normalised citation score (NCS), we used two additional measures of citation advantage: whether an article was cited at all; and whether an article is among the most frequently cited percentile of articles within its respective subject area (pptopX %). For each WoS subject area, the strength of the relationship between access status (whether an article was published in an OA journal) and each of these three measures was calculated. We found that OA journal articles experience a citation advantage in very few subject areas and, in most of these subject areas, the citation advantage was found on only a single measure of citation advantage, namely whether the article was cited at all. Our results lead us to conclude that access status accounts for little of the variability in the number of citations an article accumulates. The methodology and the calculations that were used in this study are described in detail and we believe that the lessons we learnt, and the recommendations we make, will be of much use to future researchers interested in using the WoS OA labels, and to the field of citation advantage in general.

scholarly journals How common are explicit research questions in journal articles?

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Mike Thelwall ◽  
Amalia Mas-Bleda
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Full Text ◽  
Open Access Journal ◽  
Research Purpose ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Medical Sciences ◽  
Multidisciplinary Research ◽  
Broad Field ◽  
Research Questions

Although explicitly labeled research questions seem to be central to some fields, others do not need them. This may confuse authors, editors, readers, and reviewers of multidisciplinary research. This article assesses the extent to which research questions are explicitly mentioned in 17 out of 22 areas of scholarship from 2000 to 2018 by searching over a million full-text open access journal articles. Research questions were almost never explicitly mentioned (under 2%) by articles in engineering and physical, life, and medical sciences, and were the exception (always under 20%) for the broad fields in which they were least rare: computing, philosophy, theology, and social sciences. Nevertheless, research questions were increasingly mentioned explicitly in all fields investigated, despite a rate of 1.8% overall (1.1% after correcting for irrelevant matches). Other terminology for an article’s purpose may be more widely used instead, including aims, objectives, goals, hypotheses, and purposes, although no terminology occurs in a majority of articles in any broad field tested. Authors, editors, readers, and reviewers should therefore be aware that the use of explicitly labeled research questions or other explicit research purpose terminology is non-standard in most or all broad fields, although it is becoming less rare.

scholarly journals Organising and Launching a Scholarly Open Access Journal

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Berkesand ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Open Access Journal ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Open Access Journals ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Liu E ◽  
Publishing Journal

This essay should be read as a guide for researchers or prospective editors, how to best organise and launch a scholarly open access journal from idea to publication of the first volume and issue. The essay addresses various subjects important for the publishing and provides suggestions and explanations of various available services, tools, resources, organisations or other stakeholders which can be very useful when working with the new journal. The essay does not claim to be comprehensive in the subject but should be seen as a well-prepared manual mainly based on my own experiences as a former editor at Linköping University Electronic Press (LiU E-Press), where I assisted and supported researchers launching a number of open access journals hosted by LiU E-Press and publishing journal articles. The writing is mainly aimed at a Swedish audience but of course works for other countries as well.

scholarly journals Clinical trial transparency at McGill University

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Richeek Pradhan ◽  
Olivia Bonardi
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Trial ◽  
Clinical Trials ◽  
Open Access ◽  
General Public ◽  
Human Subjects ◽  
Public Funding ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Clinical Trial Registries ◽  
Key Stakeholders ◽  
Mcgill University

Transparency in clinical trials is an issue under considerable scrutiny at present, and rightfully so, given that people's lives are both used as a resource in such research and affected by its results. Hence, the results of clinical trials conducted should be made available in both journal articles and in open access trial registries (like ClinicalTrials.gov). The latter not only make research results more accessible to the general public but are also considered essential resources in systematic reviews to avoid publication bias. Yet, up to 89% of clinical trials conducted at McGill University are not reported in clinical trial registries, and up to 37% of the trials are not published. However, since most McGill University researchers use public funding to conduct trials on human subjects, they have an obligation to make their research freely accessible. Spreading awareness regarding this issue among key stakeholders is a possible way to reduce this problem and increase the transparency of clinical research at McGill University. 

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