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Online-consultation "scientific publication system": documentation and main results
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Abstract This short report provides a description of an online-consultation on the scientific publication system. German-speaking scientists from all disciplines were invited to articulate their perspectives on principles and current problems in scientific publishing in the dialogical procedure. 697 particip... view more
This short report provides a description of an online-consultation on the scientific publication system. German-speaking scientists from all disciplines were invited to articulate their perspectives on principles and current problems in scientific publishing in the dialogical procedure. 697 participants addressed their opinion in two areas of consultation (a) Consultation area “evaluate principles”: the goal in this section was to find out whether there is a general consensus throughout academia of what constitutes a good publication system. For this purpose, principles of a good scientific publication system could be commented on and evaluated with positive or negative votes. (b) Consultation area “name problems”: this section aimed at obtaining the perspective of the participants on current challenges and problems of the publication system. The contributions of the participants focus on eight topics: (1) printed vs. digital publication, (2) business models of large publishing houses, (3) open access, (4) publication-based performance indicators, (5) authorship, (6) peer review, (7) publication bias, and (8) research data.... view less
Keywords
scientist; scientific community; online survey; communication system; scientific scene; publication; peer review; scientific activity; open access; science; science policy; digital media; German-speaking area
Classification
Sociology of Science, Sociology of Technology, Research on Science and Technology
Free Keywords
Online-consultation; scholarly publishing; academic publishing; communication system of science; scholarly communication; peer review; research data; empirical study
Document language
English
Publication Year
2015
Page/Pages
5 p.
Journal
ScienceOpen Research (2015)
ISSN
2199-1006
Status
Published Version; reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution