Project MUSE®: Journal of Scholarly Publishing - Latest Articles
https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/251
Project MUSE®: Latest articles in Journal of Scholarly Publishing.daily12026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 35 (2003) - vol. 56 (2025)Latest Articles: Journal of Scholarly PublishingTWOProject MUSE®Journal of Scholarly Publishing1710-11661198-9742Latest articles in Journal of Scholarly Publishing. Feed provided by Project MUSE®Confidentiality, Peer Review, and the Submission Case Database
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976000
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Bullying in academia is a widely known problem, which can surface in several forms.1 The opportunity to attack is inherently present wherever an opinion about someone, or someone's work, should be expressed in a confidential way, a major such sector being peer review.2 Sadly, in many set-ups effective procedures to hold perpetrators accountable are lacking (and neglected) due to the attitude that broad disclosure of critical information mounts conflicts.My central motivation is to explain that double blinding or extending the various review(er) disclosure models of areas like biosciences (or domains like blog fora, etc.) is not generally effective to improve the quality of, and accountability in, science journal
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/251/image/coversmallConfidentiality, Peer Review, and the Submission Case Database2025-12-05text/htmlen-USConfidentiality, Peer Review, and the Submission Case Database2025-12-052025TWOProject MUSE®1036282026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002025-12-05Standardizing Preprint Policies Are Needed to Clarify What Counts as a Prior Publication
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976001
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Preprints have revolutionized the dissemination of academic research, allowing for the ability to rapidly share ideas, research findings, or raw untested information prior to peer review.1 However, the lack of standardized policies across journals and publishers creates confusion regarding what constitutes a 'prior publication.' This article aims to analyze current preprint policies, identify inconsistencies, and propose recommendations for standardization to enhance clarity and efficiency in academic publishing. Very specifically, this article attempts to address the question: How can preprint policies related to prior publication be standardized across publishers to reduce heterogeneity and ambiguity?Throughout
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/251/image/coversmallStandardizing Preprint Policies Are Needed to Clarify What Counts as a Prior Publication2025-12-05text/htmlen-USStandardizing Preprint Policies Are Needed to Clarify What Counts as a Prior Publication2025-12-052025TWOProject MUSE®1154232026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002025-12-05A Trioethnographic Exploration of Co-Authoring in Higher Education: Perspectives of a PhD Student, a Supervisor, and an Editor
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976002
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While the 'publish-or-perish' aphorism has been a reality for academics, more universities are now imposing a 'publish-or-no-graduation' mandate, requiring doctoral students to publish in indexed journals as a prerequisite for graduation.1 For early-career academics and doctoral students, the challenge can seem insurmountable, so co-authoring with more experienced authors may help them overcome this hurdle. Co-authoring offers a host of benefits, but viewed through a critical pedagogy lens, academic hierarchies and 'power-infused relationships' may negatively impact co-authoring processes, interactions and relationships.2 As Clowes and Shefer note, 'co-authorship between individuals who are clearly in unequal
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/251/image/coversmallA Trioethnographic Exploration of Co-Authoring in Higher Education: Perspectives of a PhD Student, a Supervisor, and an Editor2025-12-05text/htmlen-USA Trioethnographic Exploration of Co-Authoring in Higher Education: Perspectives of a PhD Student, a Supervisor, and an Editor2025-12-052025TWOProject MUSE®916422026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002025-12-05Research Persistence: A Comparative Study of Core and Peripheral Journal Authors in Five Medical Research Topics
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976003
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Research persistence is a critical phenomenon in the academic community, shaping the dynamics of scientific advancement and knowledge production. Understanding how authors sustain their contributions over time provides insights into the evolution of research fields, the stability of academic communities, and the factors influencing long-term scholarly engagement.Research persistence and related concepts, such as research continuity, commitment, and recurrence, have been studied across multidisciplinary, disciplinary, and journal-specific contexts.1 These studies typically classify authors into categories based on their publication patterns, using labels like transients, newcomers, terminators, and continuants. In
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/251/image/coversmallResearch Persistence: A Comparative Study of Core and Peripheral Journal Authors in Five Medical Research Topics2025-12-05text/htmlen-USResearch Persistence: A Comparative Study of Core and Peripheral Journal Authors in Five Medical Research Topics2025-12-052025TWOProject MUSE®784182026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002025-12-05Study on the Funding Characteristics of English-language Sci-Tech Journals Published in China: Implementation of the China Sci-Tech Journal Excellence Action Plan-II
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976004
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China's research investment, output, and quality have shown continuous improvement in recent years. Several bibliometric indicators, including the number of publications and highly cited papers,1 have entered the world's top rank, significantly impacting the global research landscape.2 However, English-language scientific and technical journals published in China remain characterized by limited quantity, scale, and competitiveness, which is inconsistent with the country's rapidly growing research output.3 When compared to world-class scientific and technical journals, those published in China demonstrate less capacity to attract high-level research achievements, manage academic misconduct effectively, and establish
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/251/image/coversmallStudy on the Funding Characteristics of English-language Sci-Tech Journals Published in China: Implementation of the China Sci-Tech Journal Excellence Action Plan-II2025-12-05text/htmlen-USStudy on the Funding Characteristics of English-language Sci-Tech Journals Published in China: Implementation of the China Sci-Tech Journal Excellence Action Plan-II2025-12-052025TWOProject MUSE®843242026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002025-12-05Creating an Internationally Equitable Playing Field for Publishing in English-Language Scholarly Journals
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976005
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The scholarly publishing enterprise has become more international since the turn of the twenty-first century. Although English remains the dominant language for scholarly publishing, the representation of authors from different parts of the world has increased markedly. Before 2000, nearly all scholarly output in the social and health sciences was generated by authors based in the Anglosphere (the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand), Israel, and a handful of North-West European countries where English proficiency is high (e.g., the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Denmark). During the first twenty-five years of the twenty-first century, some East Asian
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/251/image/coversmallCreating an Internationally Equitable Playing Field for Publishing in English-Language Scholarly Journals2025-12-05text/htmlen-USCreating an Internationally Equitable Playing Field for Publishing in English-Language Scholarly Journals2025-12-052025TWOProject MUSE®1510172026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002025-12-05An Empirical Study of International Retracted Research Articles of Famous Chinese Universities from 2012 to 2022
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976006
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In April 2020, the papers were withdrawn from prestigious universities and scholars in China by Multimedia Tools and Applications, a world-renowned science and technology journal, and a sub-journal of the book publishing group Springer (Springer-Verlag). This is not the first time that similar incidents have occurred. Retractions have become an effective way for academics to self-correct and safeguard academic integrity.1 Since 1987 the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) first proposed the retraction of problematic academic papers, retraction has become an important measure to purify the academic ecology and punish academic misconduct. As a special kind of scientific literature data
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/251/image/coversmallAn Empirical Study of International Retracted Research Articles of Famous Chinese Universities from 2012 to 20222025-12-05text/htmlen-USAn Empirical Study of International Retracted Research Articles of Famous Chinese Universities from 2012 to 20222025-12-052025TWOProject MUSE®961862026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002025-12-05Why the Current Model of Academic Publishing Is Ethically Flawed—and What We Can Do to Change It
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976007
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Here is what a typical conversation with someone outside academia about academic journal publishing looks like:
•How much do they pay you for publishing an academic paper?
•Nothing. Authors publish research papers for free; it's part of our job.
•Oh, then the people reviewing your paper must earn a lot?
•No, we review the work of our peers for free.
•Then perhaps the publisher bears high costs for language proofreading?
•Not really. Authors are required to submit texts already proofread, preferably by a native speaker.
•Then why does your fifteen-page article behind a paywall cost nearly 40 euros?
•Because I couldn't get funding for the open-access fee this time. Look, anyone can read this other paper of mine for
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/251/image/coversmallWhy the Current Model of Academic Publishing Is Ethically Flawed—and What We Can Do to Change It2025-12-05text/htmlen-USWhy the Current Model of Academic Publishing Is Ethically Flawed—and What We Can Do to Change It2025-12-052025TWOProject MUSE®1229552026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002025-12-05Predatory Publishing and Global Scholarly Communications by Monica Berger (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976008
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The subject of predatory publishing has been increasing in recent years, fuelled by a growing interest in the subject as well as various developments that have kept the topic in the spotlight. According to Dimensions (full disclosure: I was employed by Digital Science, which owns Dimensions), the number of research articles mentioning 'predatory publishing' has risen from just under 100 a year in 2015 to 218 in 2023.Author Monica Berger, who is a professor and an instruction and scholarly communications librarian at the New York City College of Technology, City University of New York, ends Predatory Publishing and Global Scholarly Communications with perhaps her most important point, saying that 'predatory
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/251/image/coversmallPredatory Publishing and Global Scholarly Communications by Monica Berger (review)2025-12-05text/htmlen-USPredatory Publishing and Global Scholarly Communications by Monica Berger (review)2025-12-052025TWOProject MUSE®101992026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002025-12-05Achieving Global Open Access: The Need for Scientific, Epistemic, and Participatory Openness by Stephen Pinfield (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976009
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While the title Achieving Global Open Access suggests that this book will be concerned with pragmatic ideas for achieving global open access of scholarly publications, the book spends much of its length considering whether we should in fact pursue global open access. The book is largely a response to criticisms that open access (OA) publishing increases global inequities. It provides a useful catalog of ways in which OA publishing may perpetuate colonialism. Author Stephen Pinfield, a professor of information services management at the University of Sheffield and senior research fellow at the Research on Research Institute, explores three main means through which OA may increase inequities by addressing the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/251/image/coversmallAchieving Global Open Access: The Need for Scientific, Epistemic, and Participatory Openness by Stephen Pinfield (review)2025-12-05text/htmlen-USAchieving Global Open Access: The Need for Scientific, Epistemic, and Participatory Openness by Stephen Pinfield (review)2025-12-052025TWOProject MUSE®121812026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002025-12-05Writing and Publishing in Architecture and Design by Anne Massey (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976010
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This instructional guide teaches students, scholars, and research-oriented practitioners in the fields of architecture and design how to develop a publishing plan. Throughout, author Anne Massey, professorial fellow at the University for the Creative Arts, in Farnham, England, intermingles her own experiences and professional accomplishments. From the start, through a first-person perspective, Massey clearly presents the scope of the book as 'help[ing] researchers find a voice and find the best fit for their work' (1). The straightforward title and the thirteen chapters aptly guide the reader through the expected contents. Readers learn how to generate inspired writing for magazines, academic journals, and
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/251/image/coversmallWriting and Publishing in Architecture and Design by Anne Massey (review)2025-12-05text/htmlen-USWriting and Publishing in Architecture and Design by Anne Massey (review)2025-12-052025TWOProject MUSE®109902026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002025-12-05Research Methods for Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Science and Practice by Richard N. Landers and Tara S. Behrend (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976011
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In Research Methods for Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Science and Practice, Richard N. Landers, an associate professor at Old Dominion University, and Tara S. Behrend, an associate professor at George Washington University, provide a comprehensive and insightful resource that is essential for both emerging and established scholars in the field of industrial and organizational (I-O) psychology. However, the text's relevance extends well beyond its specialized focus, offering crucial insights that resonate with researchers across various journal-centric disciplines.From the outset, Landers and Behrend make a compelling case for the critical role of writing for publication in developing a successful
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/251/image/coversmallResearch Methods for Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Science and Practice by Richard N. Landers and Tara S. Behrend (review)2025-12-05text/htmlen-USResearch Methods for Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Science and Practice by Richard N. Landers and Tara S. Behrend (review)2025-12-052025TWOProject MUSE®80002026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002025-12-05