Should We be More “Open” About Publishing Research? pdf | Paperity

abernard102@gmail.com 2014-10-10

Summary:

"Dr Spock is a brilliant young vascular surgeon who is up for promotion next year. The chair of surgery has warned him that he needs to increase his list of publications to assure passage. He has recently had a paper reviewed by one of the top journals in his specialty, Journal X-special, with several suggestions for revision. He received an e-mail request for manuscript submission from a newly minted, open access, Journal of Vascular Disease Therapy, which promises a quick and likely favorable response for a fee. What should be done? A. Send the paper to another peer-reviewed journal with the suggested revisions. B. Resubmit the paper to Journal X-special. C. Submit to the online journal as is to save time. D. Submit to the online journal and another regular journal. E. Look for another job. These were the questions posed by Jones & McCullough in their excellent recent publication that discussed corruption in publication research [1] ..."

Link:

http://paperity.org/p/37682859/should-we-be-more-open-about-publishing-research

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Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com

Tags:

oa.new oa.paperity oa.publishers oa.business_models oa.gold oa.fees oa.quality oa.peer_review oa.publishing oa.journals

Date tagged:

10/10/2014, 09:06

Date published:

10/10/2014, 05:06