INTRODUCTION The potential relationships of interest between authors, reviewers, editors and financial management of the journals can lead to a conflict of interest in their performances. DEVELOPMENT It analyzes the potential conflicts of interest in the papers, with extreme examples, assessing the need for careful statement of the relations, especially economic. CONCLUSIONS Potential confl...

Introduction Citation-based bibliometric indicators are increasingly being used for evaluating research. This reflects the need of decision-makers to increase the efficiency of allocating resources to research institutions and scientists, while also keeping manageable and cost-effective the evaluation process that grounds the allocation of resources. There often is much room of improvement in h...

Publications in scientific journals contain a considerable fraction of our scientific knowledge. Analyzing data from publication databases helps us understand how this knowledge is obtained and how it changes over time. In this study, we present a mathematical model for the temporal dynamics of data on the scientific content of publications. Our data set consists of references to thousands of g...

Numerous studies have revealed biases within the scientific communication system and across all scientific fields. For example, already prominent researchers receive disproportional credit compared to their (almost) equally qualified colleagues – because of their prominence. However, none of those studies has offered a solution as to how to decrease the incidence of these biases. In this paper ...

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BACKGROUND Scientific publishing is undergoing significant changes due to the growth of online publications, increases in the number of open access journals, and policies of funders and universities requiring authors to ensure that their publications become publicly accessible. Most studies of the impact of these changes have focused on the growth of articles available through open access or th...

We report on an empirical verification of the degree to which citation numbers represent scientific impact as it is actually perceived by experts in their respective field. We run a survey of about 2000 corresponding authors who performed a pairwise impact assessment task across more than 20,000 scientific articles. Results of the survey show that citation data and perceived impact do not align...