Evolution of the scholarly mega-journal, 2006–2017 by Bo-Christer Björk

“…Mega-journals are a new kind of scholarly journal made possible by electronic publishing. …”
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Have the “mega-journals” reached the limits to growth? by Bo-Christer Björk

“…In the wake of the phenomenal success of PLOS ONE, several other publishers have recently started mega-journals. This article presents the evolution of mega-journals since 2010 in terms of article publication rates. …”
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Open-Access Mega-Journals: A Bibliometric Profile. by Simon Wakeling, Peter Willett, Claire Creaser, Jenny Fry, Stephen Pinfield, Valérie Spezi

“…We found that while the total output of the eleven mega-journals grew by 14.9% between 2014 and 2015, this growth is largely attributable to the increased output of Scientific Reports and Medicine. …”
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Citation beneficiaries of discipline-specific mega-journals: who and how much by Jing Li, Qiushuang Long, Xiaoli Lu, Dengsheng Wu

“…Abstract The emergence of mega-journals (MJs) has influenced scholarly communication. …”
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Open Access Mega Journals: Development, Peer Review Mechanism, and Suggested Practices for the Academia by Sophia Jui-An Pan

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Transitioning from a Conventional to a ‘Mega’ Journal: A Bibliometric Case Study of the Journal Medicine by Simon Wakeling, Peter Willett, Claire Creaser, Jenny Fry, Stephen Pinfield, Valerie Spezi

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Blitzschnelles Publizieren mit Academia Letters, aber sag', wie verhält es sich mit der Qualitätssicherung? Ein informationswissenschaftlicher Kommentar by Philipp Zumstein

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Changes in article share and growth by publisher and access type in Journal Citation Reports 2016, 2018, and 2020 by Sang-Jun Kim, Kay Sook Park

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Open Access Publications with Article Processing Charge (APC) Payment: a Brazilian Scenario Analysis by BÁRBARA NEVES ALENCAR, MARCIA C. BARBOSA

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Conflicts of Interest Arising from Simultaneous Service by Editors of Competing Journals or Publishers by Jaime A. Teixeira da Silva

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Are publications on zoological taxonomy under attack? by Ângelo Parise Pinto, Gabriel Mejdalani, Ross Mounce, Luís Fábio Silveira, Luciane Marinoni, José Albertino Rafael

“…We consider Zootaxa's scope and the fact that it is a mega-journal are insufficient to explain its high level of self-citation. …”
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Scholarly Journals’ Publication Frequency and Number of Articles in 2018–2019: A Study of SCI, SSCI, CSCD, and CSSCI Journals by Xiaotian Chen

“…The author fees for non-OA journals in China could play a role in the higher number of articles. The “mega journal” phenomenon does not seem to be a common practice among all the journal lists studied.…”
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Could early tweet counts predict later citation counts? A gender study in Life Sciences and Biomedicine (2014-2016). by Tahereh Dehdarirad

“…These included journal impact (SNIP), number of authors, open access, research funding, topic of an article, international collaboration, lay summary, F1000 Score and mega journal. The findings showed that the percentage of papers with male authors in first or last authorship positions was higher than that for female authors. …”
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Support Science by Publishing in Scientific Society Journals by Patrick D. Schloss, Mark Johnston, Arturo Casadevall

“…This is largely due to two competing pressures: authors’ drive to publish in “glam journals”—those with high journal impact factors—and the availability of “mega journals,” which offer speedy publication of articles regardless of their potential impact. …”
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Compliance of New Scientific Platforms with Formal Requirements for Scientific Publications by A. S. Gorbunova, I. I. Zassoursky, N. D. Trishchenko

“…As a result of the development of the electronic environment, new actors appear in the scientific communication system, including repositories, mega-journals, and open peer review platforms, all of which operate in accordance with the open science paradigm. …”
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How the landscape of publishing is changing biogeography by Michael N Dawson, Alycia L Stigall, Joaquín Hortal

“…Yet, the journals enjoying the largest positive trends—e.g. increasing share of biogeography publications and increasing Impact Factor—are outside of the nucleus; they are emerging open access ‘mega-journals’ that offer simplified criteria for publication. …”
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A Very Long Embargo: Journal Choice Reveals Active Non-Compliance with Funder Open Access Policies by Australian and Canadian Neuroscientists by Shaun Yon-Seng Khoo, Belinda Po Pyn Lay

“…We also examined publications in immediate open access neuroscience journals that had the DOAJ Seal and neuroscience publications in open access mega-journals. We found that the implementation of Australian and Canadian funder open access policies in 2012/2013 and 2015 did not reduce the number of publications in non-compliant journals. …”
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Práticas de Ciência Aberta da comunidade acadêmica brasileira: estudo a partir da produção científica by Alejandro CABALLERO-RIVERO, Nancy SÁNCHEZ-TARRAGÓ, Raimundo Nonato Macedo dos SANTOS

“…Constata o crescimento estável dos artigos em Acesso Aberto, os quais representam mais de um terço da produção brasileira na Web of Science no período. A publicação em mega journals internacionais de Acesso Aberto constitui uma prática destacada, com ênfase em comunidades que pesquisam as áreas de Agricultura e Ciência & Tecnologia, bem como o depósito em repositório de artigos previamente publicados em periódicos de acesso aberto. …”
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Two Decades of Research Using Taiwan’s National Health Insurance Claims Data: Bibliometric and Text Mining Analysis on PubMed by Sung, Sheng-Feng, Hsieh, Cheng-Yang, Hu, Ya-Han

“…ObjectiveThis study aimed to investigate whether the research output during the second decade after the release of the NHI claims database continues growing, to explore how the emergence of open access mega journals (OAMJs) and lawsuit against the use of this database affect the research topics and publication volume and to discuss the underlying reasons. …”
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Don’t hate the aggregator. Become the aggregator by Maria Chiara Pievatolo

“…Per essere artigianali e liberi, ma non impotenti, ci si può ispirare al modello delle super-riviste o mega-journals. Plos One, per esempio, pubblica qualsiasi testo scientificamente rigoroso che superi la revisione paritaria, senza nessun'altra considerazione editoriale. …”
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