Today in how #Elsevier ruins my mood: Pure repositories pollute #Unpaywall with garbage data.
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T396127
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T396126
Today in how #Elsevier ruins my mood: Pure repositories pollute #Unpaywall with garbage data.
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T396127
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T396126
@rmounce How sad though, «Our findings show that 42.3% (716,278) of the citations and 39.1% (450,277) publications were OA (i.e., not closed)».
60 % of citations going to paywalled journals, likely to be unreliable chasers of harmful metrics. :|
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5826185/
So much work left to do. And it might be even worse elsewhere in #Wikipedia, as this is only about the English Wikipedia. (Where at least the #OAbot and other initiatives are quite active.)
In which journal a scientist publishes is considered one of the most crucial factors determining their career. The underlying common assumption is that only the best scientists manage to publish in a highly selective tier of the most prestigious journals. ...