Joining the European Journal of Taxonomy, the Biodiversity Data Journal is the latest #ScientificJournal to adopt a GBIF hosted portal! 🐟
This #Pensoft-published journal is the first of many under the masthead expected to participate in the GBIF programme.
Read more: 🔗https://gbif.link/bdj
#MycoKeys #Pensoft #Bibliometrics #impactfactor #mycology
Nilsson RH, et al. (20 Nov 2024):
20 years of bibliometric data illustrates a lack of concordance between journal impact factor and fungal species discovery in systematic mycology.
MycoKeys 110: 273-285.
https://doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.110.136048
#IGB colleague Alice Retter involved
Journal impact factors were devised to qualify and compare university library holdings but are frequently repurposed for use in ranking applications, research papers, and even individual applicants in mycology and beyond. The widely held assumption that mycological studies published in journals with high impact factors add more to systematic mycology than studies published in journals without high impact factors nevertheless lacks evidential underpinning. The present study uses the species hypothesis system of the UNITE database for molecular identification of fungi and other eukaryotes to trace the publication history and impact factor of sequences uncovering new fungal species hypotheses. The data show that journal impact factors are poor predictors of discovery potential in systematic mycology. There is no clear relationship between journal impact factor and the discovery of new species hypotheses for the years 2000–2021. On the contrary, we found journals with low, and even no, impact factor to account for substantial parts of the species hypothesis landscape, often discovering new fungal taxa that are only later picked up by journals with high impact factors. Funding agencies and hiring committees that insist on upholding journal impact factors as a central funding and recruitment criterion in systematic mycology should consider using indicators such as research quality, productivity, outreach activities, review services for scientific journals, and teaching ability directly rather than using publication in high impact factor journals as a proxy for these indicators.
🥳 Happy #OpenAccessWeek 2024! 🎉
👍 As an #openscience #journal, we wish to remind #scientists that their work is much more than what goes into traditional #research #papers; deserves immediate visibility, #discoverability & shall be recognised for its #societal valued & #impact!
👉 More about the background of our rationale and background on the #Pensoft blog: https://blog.pensoft.net/2021/05/18/rio-journal-5-years-on-over-300-published-outcomes-from-all-around-the-research-cycle/
#OAweek #OAweek2024 #OAweek24 #openresearch #scholarlypublishing #publishing #academic
Five years on, the Open Science-driven journal Research Ideas and Outcomes (RIO) published an editorial that looks back on the 300 research ideas and research outcomes it has published so far. Since its early days, RIO has enjoyed quite positive reactions from the open-minded academic community for its innovative approach to Open Science in practice: it provides a niche
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Biodiversity Digital Twins (#BioDT) project is to push the boundaries of predictive understanding of #biodiversity dynamics.
👉 Find more about BioDT on #Pensoft's blog: https://blog.pensoft.net/2024/10/03/the-biodiversity-digital-twin-to-help-understand-our-planets-life/
👉 📚In their project collection in our #openscience #journal, the team describe 10 prototype #DigitalTwins! Explore it at: https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.coll.240
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✨ #Pensoft Publishers and Knowledge Pixels have been leading this pioneering effort, especially in the scientific field of biodiversity. Their templates and workflows allow for critical findings to be presented in a way that's both human-readable and AI-friendly – an approach that echoes OS commitment to interoperability and transparency in science!
Feel free to contact myself or @leeselab if you have any further questions. Contact info is in the attached post.
#biomonitoring #biodiversity #standardization #metabarcoding #metagenomics #GEOBON #pensoft #MBMG
I'm happy to be a guest editor for the open access online journal **Metabarcoding and Metagenomics.** We're inviting contributions for the special issue "**Towards standardized molecular biodiversity monitoring".**
✅ 15% discount on article processing charges
✅ The first two Early Career Researcher manuscripts received and accepted will be published for free
Deadline March 15, 2024
#biodiversity #metabarcoding #metagenomics #standardization #GEOBON #pensoft #MBMG
Update. @pensoft just released a strong endorsement of the #EuropeanCouncil proposal for no-fee #OpenAccess.
https://blog.pensoft.net/2023/08/21/pensofts-statement-on-the-european-unions-conclusions-on-oa-scholarly-publishing/
"Hereby, we wish to express our full agreement with the Council of the European Union’s conclusion, that 'it is essential to avoid situations where researchers are limited in their choice of publication channels due to financial capacities rather than quality criteria'."
There has already been overwhelming support in the scholarly community for the EU 🇪🇺 Conclusions on scholarly publishing, e.g.,
and now this support extends even to certain publishers! #Pensoft and #ARPHA support the transition away from the current conglomerate of monopolists towards a genuine market with actual competition, which is one of the targeted outcomes:
https://blog.pensoft.net/2023/08/21/pensofts-statement-on-the-european-unions-conclusions-on-oa-scholarly-publishing/
"what drives innovation and revolutionary technologies is competition."
<p>For European public research and innovation actors, scholarly knowledge is a public good. Publicly funded research and its results should be immediately and openly available to all without barriers such as subscription fees or paywalls. This is essential in driving knowledge forward, promoting innovation and tackling social issues. Key representative organisations of the public research […]</p>
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