InfoGuides: PHYS-601 Physics Graduate Seminar: Publishing trends

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PIDS-digital identifies, Datasets

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Preprints are preliminary reports of work that have not been certified by the peer review process. You still need to follow where the authors finally publish their approved papers.

Within a citation/article look for: "Follow this preprint"

You can now receive automatic notifications when a preprint is revised, withdrawn, commented on, peer reviewed, or published in a journal.

Celebrating Five Years of PIDapalooza
"The role of identifiers is critical and growing. There are PIDS for people: ORCID, ISNI; PIDS for organizations: ROR, GRIDs; and outputs: RGISN, DATA CITE DOIs, DOIs for articles, books, datasets; ISBNs for books, ISSNs for journals…and on and on and on."
Celebrating Five Years of PIDapalooza with a 24-Hour PID Party! by Alice Meadows, Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Todd A Carpenter, Judy Luther, Phill Jones SFEB 10, 20210 source: The Scholarly Kitchen FEB 10, 2021

Plagiarism, Retracted papers, Fake authors/conferences; Lost Open Access. Preprints

Today's news: The Mysterious Case of the Nonsense Papers A peer-reviewed journal published hundreds of them. Why?
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And it’s not just Springer. Elsevier, another journal-publishing giant, recently issued editorial expressions of concern about some 400 articles that had fallen “beneath the high standards” for one of its journals. Meanwhile, Taylor & Francis retracted a special issue because the guest editor had been “impersonated by a fraudulent entity.” One lesson here seems to be that handing the keys of a journal over to an unpaid guest editor might be a bad idea.

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Disappearing bits bytes data dilemma
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Springer Definition of Data Articles
Data articles are peer-reviewed, with datasets but with no conclusions or analyses.
Purpose: to allowsauthors to get citable credit for their work in generating research data.
Publishing a data article does not prevent an author from publishing research papers using that data at a later date.
Elsevier definition-Data Articles
They provide an easy channel for researchers to publish their datasets and receive proper credit and recognition for the work they have done. This is particularly true for replication data, negative datasets or data from intermediate experiments, which often go unpublished.
Data Article Journals
This section examines the characteristics of data journals in the fields of biology, environmental science, chemistry, medicine and health sciences, presenting detailed information on each of the 13 data journals

Community activities

Predatory Journal list
Journals that publish work without proper peer review and charge scholars sometimes huge fees to submit
Retraction Watch
August 2010 Retraction Watch was launched by co-founders, Adam Marcus and Ivan Oransky.
Peer reviewed journal articles can still be withdrawn due to many reasons.

Recent projects/groups:

Reducing the Inadvertent Spread of Retracted Science (RISRS) project,

NISO Working Group to work on a Communication of Retractions, Removals, and Expressions of Concern (CORREC) Recommended Practice.

Elsevier examples

Elsevier ScienceDirect source: https://service.elsevier.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/27955/supporthub/sciencedirect/kw/data+article/

Article type	Explanation
Review articles	Substantial overview of original research, usually with a comprehensive reference list. Note: Not a book review.
Research articles	Complete report on original research.
Encyclopedia	Elsevier major reference works.
Book chapters	Individual chapter of a book.
Conference abstracts	Abstract of a paper or oral presentation or poster typically presented in conference proceedings.
Book reviews	A collection of book reviews.
Case reports	A detailed report of the symptoms, signs, diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up of an individual patient.
Conference info	Information about a conference.
Correspondence	Letter to the editor or a reply to the letter.
**Data articles**	Publication item describing data.
Discussion	Argumentative communication, like papers in a discussion, but also perspectives, commentaries, etc.
Editorials	From the editor of the publication.
Errata	Article in which errors are reported that were made in an earlier publication in the same journal.
Examinations	Examination or quiz, with questions and answers.
Mini reviews	A short review much like a short full-length article.
News	News item.
Patent reports	A report on newly developed patents.
Practice guidelines	A report that describes guidelines for effective diagnosis or treatment of a medical condition.
Product reviews	A review of a product (e.g., a review of software, hardware, medical products, etc.).
Replication studies	A replication of a scientific study.
Short communications	A short report or announcement of research, usually claiming certain results. Appear under many names, such as letter papers, preliminary notes, notes, etc.
Software publications	A publication item containing software or a description of software.
Video articles	A publication item whose primary content is a video accompanied by a description of that video.
Other	All other types not mentioned above.v

PHYS-601 Physics Graduate Seminar: Publishing trends

PIDS-digital identifies, Datasets

Plagiarism, Retracted papers, Fake authors/conferences; Lost Open Access. Preprints

Community activities

Elsevier examples

Article type

Explanation