The allure of the journal impact factor holds firm, despite its flaws, Nature Index, August 29, 2019
Survey findings: Publish or perish? Faculty publishing decisions and the review, promotion, and tenure (RPT) process,LJ’s infoDOCKET, July 30, 2019 [Reblog]
Do academics overestimate the importance of journal prestige?,Daily Nous, July 30, 2019
Academics think, ‘others value journal prestige and metrics, not me’, Times Higher Education, July 26, 2019
For academics, what matters more: journal prestige or readership?, Science, July 25, 2019
Academic review promotion and tenure documents promote a view of open access that is at odds with the wider academic community, LSE Impact Blog, July 17, 2019
The ‘impact’ of the Journal Impact Factor in the review, tenure, and promotion process, LSE Impact Blog, April 26, 2019 [Reblog]
The ‘impact’ of the Journal Impact Factor in the review, tenure, and promotion process, PeerJ Blog, April 17, 2019
‘Undue reliance’ on journal impact factor in academic evaluation,Times Higher Education, April 16, 2019
Impact factors are still widely used in academic evaluations, Nature News, April 11, 2019
As scholars are driven to less prestigious journals, new measures of quality emerge, The Chronicle of Higher Education, February 18, 2019
Today’s top 10 in higher ed, Academia Group, January 20, 2021
In the rush for coronavirus information, unreviewed scientific papers are being publicized, National Post, January 14, 2021
About half of media stories fail to label “preprint” COVID-19 research, Medical Xpress, January 6, 2021
Don’t hold back the vaccine for a second dose. And more new virus science, The Tyee, January 5, 2021
Preprints Uptake and Use
To preprint or not to preprint? Research for a more transparent publishing system, LJ’s infoDOCKET, July 29, 2019 [Reblog]
To preprint or not to preprint? Research for a more transparent publishing system,ASAPbio blog, July 29, 2019 [Reblog]
President’s Dream Colloquium on Making Knowledge Public
SFU’s President’s Dream Colloquium explores Making Knowledge Public, Nation Talk, September 6, 2018
President’s Dream Colloquium explores the importance of making academic knowledge accessible to the public, SFU News, September 10, 2018
Education is our best weapon against fake news, says information expert, StarMetro Vancouver, September 13, 2018
Interview with Dr. Jevin West, News Talk 980 CKNW, September 13, 2018
Open Access and Open Science
Dozens of scientific journals have vanished from the Internet, study found, CNN, September 15, 2020
Nearly 200 journals suddenly went missing on the internet, about 900 more at-risk, Tech Times, September 10, 2020
And poof! They are gone, Genome Web, September 10, 2020
More than 100 scientific journals have disappeared from the Internet, Nature News, September 10, 2020
Open access journals are vanishing from the web, Internet Archive stands ready to fill in the gaps, The Register, September 10, 2020
Research: Nearly 200 scientific journals have disappeared from the Internet, and 900 may soon disappear [Finnish], Tekniikan Maailma, September 9, 2020
Dozens of scientific journals have vanished from the internet, and no one preserved them, Science, September 8, 2020
‘Bronze’ open access supersedes green and gold, Nature Index, March 12, 2018
Des chercheurs se mobilisent pour un accès gratuit aux publications,Le Monde, November 6, 2017
Study Suggests Publisher Public Access Outpacing Open Access; Gold OA Decreases Citation Performance,The Scholarly Kitchen, October 4, 2017
Research Results Are Increasingly Available For Free, Al-Fanar Media,September 29, 2017
Soon, nobody will read academic journals illegally, because the studies worth reading will be free, Quartz,
Two studies suggest trouble ahead for paywall journals (Update),Phys.org, August 8, 2017
Half of papers searched for online are free to read,Nature,
Open Access On the Rise: Study, The Scientist, August 7, 2017
The State of Open Access: Some New Data,Open and Shut, Thursday, August 03, 2017
Trend Watch: The State of Open Access,Nature, August 2, 2017
Altmetrics and Societal Impact
Research: “Emojis in Scholarly Communication: 🔥 or 💩?”, LJ’s infoDOCKET, August 22, 2019 [Reblog]
Web presence and social media metrics from articles shared on Twitter – Interview with Stefanie Haustein, SciELO – in Perspective, June 11, 2019 (Portuguese, Spanish, and English)
