As Learned Publishing celebrates its 30th birthday, the April issue opens with an editorial celebrating this milestone. “Question all assumptions” looks at the big questions that the journal has addressed during its history, and asks where we might be going in the future.
In addition to this editorial, the other articles in the issue continue the dialogue with original research on why authors publish in “predatory” journals – and an opinion piece asking if it is “Time to stop talking about predatory journals’? There is research on the use of DOIs in China (with some unexpected findings), and looking at how – and if – citation counts can be anticipated, and the OA landscape of natural and social sciences (did you know that Brazil is the third largest contributor of indexed OA journals?). Along with several opinion pieces – one questioning whether the future of publishing is revolution or evolution; a case study on machine learning; and a discussion of the website’s role in content marketing – the issue is packed with useful content and a great start to our anniversary year.
Everyone working for an ALPSP member organization can access the full text by logging in via ALPSP, https://www.alpsp.org/Learned-Publishing. SSP members – please log in to the member center on the SSP website to access the full content.
The journal is now live on the new Wiley platform, so come have a tour of our new site. Happy springtime reading!
Lettie Y. Conrad
North American Editor
Learned Publishing
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Learned Publishing Vol. 31 / No. 2, April 2018
Editorial
Question all assumptions
by Pippa Smart, Editor in Chief
Original articles
Mapping the scientific research on open data: A bibliometric review
by Yun Zhang, Shunbo Yuan and Weina Hua
Open access publications in sciences and social sciences: A comparative analysis
by Weishu Lui and Yanchao Li
An evaluation of information behaviour studies through the Scholarly Capital Model
by Faramarz Soheili, Ali Akbar Khasseh, Afshin Mousavi Chelak and Mohammad Tavakolizadeh-Ravari
Contributing factors to long‐term citation count in marine and freshwater biology articles
by Joshua R Nash, Rafael J Araujo and Geoffrey S Snideler
Why do authors publish in predatory journals?
by Serhat Kurt
Digital object identifier and its use in core Chinese academic journals: A Chinese perspective
by Wellang Wang, Bin You, Ping Zhang, Yifeng Chen and Lvxiang Deng
Case studies
Combining human input with machine learning: A case study
by Michael Upshall
Opinion pieces
The future of academic publishing: Revolution or evolution?
by Francis Dodds
Putting an end to download‐and‐go: The website’s role in a content marketing ecosystem
by Jacob Wilcock
Time to stop talking about ‘predatory journals’
by Stefan Erikson and Gert Helgesson
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