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Early career researchers between predatory publishing and academic excellence: The views and behaviours of the millennials

The paper draws on evidence of predatory publishing obtained from the four-year-long Harbingers research study of changing scholarly communication attitudes and behavior of early career researchers (ECRs). The project featured longitudinal interviews for its first three years with 116 ECRs researchi...

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Main Authors: Nicholas, David, Herman, Eti, Watkinson, Anthony, Xu, Jie, Abrizah, Abdullah, Rodriguez-Bravo, Blanca, Boukacem-Zeghmouri, Cherifa, Polezhaeva, Tatiana, Swigon, Marzena
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Published: Natl Research Univ Higher Sch Economics 2021
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QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
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spelling my.um.eprints.349892022-05-24T03:02:41Z http://eprints.um.edu.my/34989/ Early career researchers between predatory publishing and academic excellence: The views and behaviours of the millennials Nicholas, David Herman, Eti Watkinson, Anthony Xu, Jie Abrizah, Abdullah Rodriguez-Bravo, Blanca Boukacem-Zeghmouri, Cherifa Polezhaeva, Tatiana Swigon, Marzena QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science The paper draws on evidence of predatory publishing obtained from the four-year-long Harbingers research study of changing scholarly communication attitudes and behavior of early career researchers (ECRs). The project featured longitudinal interviews for its first three years with 116 ECRs researching science and social sciences who came from China, France, Malaysia, Poland, Spain, the UK, and US. The interview data provided the building blocks for a questionnaire survey in the fourth year, which obtained 1,600 responses from a global audience, which included arts and humanities ECRs and those from Russia. These studies investigated predatory publishing as part of general questioning about scholarly communications. The main findings from the interview study were: 1) ECRs generally do not publish in predatory journals; 2) they only allude to them lightly and mainly in the context of open access publishing; and 3) they no longer equate all open access publishing with predatory journals. The questionnaire found that, as in the case of the interviews, complaints that open access represents low quality publishing are diminishing, however, this positivity has been partly offset by increased concerns about the dangers of predatory journals. Natl Research Univ Higher Sch Economics 2021 Article PeerReviewed Nicholas, David and Herman, Eti and Watkinson, Anthony and Xu, Jie and Abrizah, Abdullah and Rodriguez-Bravo, Blanca and Boukacem-Zeghmouri, Cherifa and Polezhaeva, Tatiana and Swigon, Marzena (2021) Early career researchers between predatory publishing and academic excellence: The views and behaviours of the millennials. Foresight And Sti Governance, 15 (1). pp. 56-65. ISSN 1995-459X, DOI https://doi.org/10.17323/2500-2597.2021.1.56.65 <https://doi.org/10.17323/2500-2597.2021.1.56.65>. 10.17323/2500-2597.2021.1.56.65
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topic QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
spellingShingle QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
Nicholas, David
Herman, Eti
Watkinson, Anthony
Xu, Jie
Abrizah, Abdullah
Rodriguez-Bravo, Blanca
Boukacem-Zeghmouri, Cherifa
Polezhaeva, Tatiana
Swigon, Marzena
Early career researchers between predatory publishing and academic excellence: The views and behaviours of the millennials
description The paper draws on evidence of predatory publishing obtained from the four-year-long Harbingers research study of changing scholarly communication attitudes and behavior of early career researchers (ECRs). The project featured longitudinal interviews for its first three years with 116 ECRs researching science and social sciences who came from China, France, Malaysia, Poland, Spain, the UK, and US. The interview data provided the building blocks for a questionnaire survey in the fourth year, which obtained 1,600 responses from a global audience, which included arts and humanities ECRs and those from Russia. These studies investigated predatory publishing as part of general questioning about scholarly communications. The main findings from the interview study were: 1) ECRs generally do not publish in predatory journals; 2) they only allude to them lightly and mainly in the context of open access publishing; and 3) they no longer equate all open access publishing with predatory journals. The questionnaire found that, as in the case of the interviews, complaints that open access represents low quality publishing are diminishing, however, this positivity has been partly offset by increased concerns about the dangers of predatory journals.
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author Nicholas, David
Herman, Eti
Watkinson, Anthony
Xu, Jie
Abrizah, Abdullah
Rodriguez-Bravo, Blanca
Boukacem-Zeghmouri, Cherifa
Polezhaeva, Tatiana
Swigon, Marzena
author_facet Nicholas, David
Herman, Eti
Watkinson, Anthony
Xu, Jie
Abrizah, Abdullah
Rodriguez-Bravo, Blanca
Boukacem-Zeghmouri, Cherifa
Polezhaeva, Tatiana
Swigon, Marzena
author_sort Nicholas, David
title Early career researchers between predatory publishing and academic excellence: The views and behaviours of the millennials
title_short Early career researchers between predatory publishing and academic excellence: The views and behaviours of the millennials
title_full Early career researchers between predatory publishing and academic excellence: The views and behaviours of the millennials
title_fullStr Early career researchers between predatory publishing and academic excellence: The views and behaviours of the millennials
title_full_unstemmed Early career researchers between predatory publishing and academic excellence: The views and behaviours of the millennials
title_sort early career researchers between predatory publishing and academic excellence: the views and behaviours of the millennials
publisher Natl Research Univ Higher Sch Economics
publishDate 2021
url http://eprints.um.edu.my/34989/
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