Artur Sergyeyev

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Are there any open acccess publishers or journals offering reviewers full (100%) waiver of the APC, perhaps not for one but for several reviews?

There is a lot of talk now about supporting reviewers, so I wonder if there are any open access journals or publishers offering reviewers a 100% (!) waiver of the APC (article processing charges...

04 April 2019 1,737 17 View

What do you think about the new arXiv Google Scholar links feature?

Very recently arXiv.org has introduced a new feature : at each preprint's page in the References & Citations area there appeared a link to the Google Scholar search by the title, author & year of...

09 September 2018 1,967 8 View

Which journal metric (impact factor, eigenfactor, Google Scholar metric etc.) best reflects the prestige of a given journal in the expert community ?

It is perhaps common knowledge that numerical indicators do not necessarily reflect the prestige of a given journal within the academic community. To give just one example, according to the...

07 July 2016 5,642 12 View

The future of impact factor: will its role diminish?

The Nature article linked below indicates an apparently growing trend towards downplaying the role of journal impact factor for evaluating the individual articles published in a journal. Do you...

07 July 2016 1,345 13 View

arXiv.org is now at 25: how do you use it and what are your impressions and suggestions for possible improvement?

It's all in the question :) See also the links below.

07 July 2016 523 0 View

2016 Google Scholar Metrics for journals have been released. Do you find them more useful than the alternatives (impact factor, eigenfactor, etc.)?

See the link below:

07 July 2016 7,236 2 View

Brexit and Academe: how would Brexit affect the researchers and Universities in the UK, EU and the world?

While there already is a number of interesting RG questions discussing Brexit, none of them appears to concentrate enough on how would Brexit affect the researchers and Universities in the UK, EU...

06 June 2016 4,747 58 View

Do we need Peer Review 2.0 and, if yes, how should it differ from the current model?

What should be a new or improved peer review model, do we need it, and why? There already is a number of proposed modifications to the existing peer review model, e.g. 1. open peer review, see...

12 December 2013 3,194 32 View

Which mathematical tools, methods or results does your research field miss most?

This question is mainly addressed to the researchers whose primary research area is other than pure mathematics. It is about the results, methods and tools from pure mathematics as a research...

12 December 2013 6,489 18 View

A new site listing predatory journals. What do you think of it?

The Beall's web site scholarly-oa.com does not host the Beall's list of predatory journals and publishers anymore. I have recenly found a web site https://predatoryjournals.com/ which claims to...

01 January 1970 2,216 52 View