OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Learned Publishing is 4. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Transformative agreements: Do they pave the way to open access?	42
Beall's legacy in the battle against predatory publishers	33
Is rapid scientific publication also high quality? Bibliometric analysis of highly disseminated COVID‐19 research papers	29
Research on Industry 4.0 and on key related technologies in Vietnam: A bibliometric analysis using Scopus	24
Fortification of retraction notices to improve their transparency and usefulness	23
Evolution of scientific collaboration on COVID‐19: A bibliometric analysis	19
Publication and collaboration anomalies in academic papers originating from a paper mill: Evidence from a Russia‐based paper mill	18
The prevalence and impact of special issues in communications journals 2015–2019	17
Article processing charges for open access journal publishing: A review	17
Overburdening of peer reviewers: A multi‐stakeholder perspective on causes and effects	17
Over‐promotion and caution in abstracts of preprints during the COVID‐19 crisis	16
Analysis of publications by authors of Ukrainian institutes in Scopus‐delisted titles	16
Risks of abuse of large language models, like ChatGPT, in scientific publishing: Authorship, predatory publishing, and paper mills	15
Predatory journals and publishers: Characteristics and impact of academic spam to researchers in educational sciences	15
Human‐ and AI‐based authorship: Principles and ethics	15
How to improve scientific peer review: Four schools of thought	14
Journal hijacking: Challenges and potential solutions	14
Standardizing terminology for text recycling in research writing	14
Authors publishing repeatedly in predatory journals: An analysis of Scopus articles	14
Artificial intelligence to support publishing and peer review: A summary and review	13
Engaging young scholars in science through publication: A survey analysis of published middle and high school authors	13
Improving peer‐review by developing reviewers' feedback literacy	13
Choosing the ‘right’ journal for publication: Perceptions and practices of pandemic‐era early career researchers	13
Fear of the academic fake? Journal editorials and the amplification of the 'predatory publishing' discourse	13
Journal self‐citation trends in 1975–2017 and the effect on journal impact and article citations	13

Editors publishing in their own journals: A systematic review of prevalence and a discussion of normative aspects	12
Non‐author entities accountable for retractions: A diachronic and cross‐disciplinary exploration of reasons for retraction	11
Titles in research articles: Changes across time and discipline	11
Plain language summaries: Enabling increased diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility in scholarly publishing	11
Knowledge production on predatory publishing: A systematic review	11
The motivations and criteria behind China's list of questionable journals	11
Perspectives on institutional valuing and support for academic and translational outputs in Japan and Australia	10
Scholarly journal publishing standards, policies and guidelines	10
Article processing charge expenditure in Chile: The current situation	10
Scientific publishing sanctions in response to the Russo‐Ukrainian war	9
Questionnaires mentioned in academic research 1996–2019: Rapid increase but declining citation impact	9
Journals in Beall's list perform as a group less well than other open access journals indexed in Scopus but reveal large differences among publishers	9
The future of scientific journals: The rise of UniAI	9
Can ChatGPT be an author? A study of artificial intelligence authorship policies in top academic journals	9
Attitudes, willingness, and resources to cover article publishing charges: The influence of age, position, income level country, discipline and open access habits	8
Scholarly journal publishing in Australia	8
Enter the dragon: China and global academic publishing	8
Why do journals discontinue? A study of Australian ceased journals	8
Publication practices during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Expedited publishing or simply an early bird effect?	8
Adopting open access in an emerging country: Is gender inequality a barrier in humanities and social sciences?	8
The impact of COVID‐19 on the UK publishing industry: Findings and opportunity	8
Home country bias in academic publishing: A case study of the New England Journal of Medicine	8
Journal editors and journal indexes: Internationalization pressures in the semi‐periphery of the world of science	7
Expanding Nature: Product line and brand extensions of a scientific journal	7
University presses and the impact of COVID‐19	7
Perceptions on the prevalence and impact of predatory academic journals and conferences: A global survey of researchers	7
Implementing an Open & FAIR data sharing policy—A case study in the earth and environmental sciences	7
Politics matters: The power dynamics behind Chinese English‐language humanities and social science journals	7
Is the quality of reviews reflected in editors' and authors' satisfaction with peer review? A cross‐sectional study in 12 journals across four research fields	7
Where predatory and mainstream journals differ: A study of language and linguistics journals	6
COVID‐19 Rapid Review cross‐publisher initiative: What we have learned and what we are going to do next	6
‘Cracks’ in the scholarly communications system: Insights from a longitudinal international study of early career researchers	6
Philosophers' perceptions of pay to publish and open access in Spain: Books versus journals, more than a financial dilemma	6
The AMSTAR‐2 critical appraisal tool and editorial decision‐making for systematic reviews: Retrospective, bibliometric study	6
Dissimulate or disseminate? A survey on the fate of negative results	6
Objectivity of the peer‐review process: Enduring myth, reality, and possible remedies	5
Authors' choice between parent and mirror journals of Elsevier	5
Factors affecting authors' manuscript submission behaviour: A systematic review	5
Evolution and adoption of contributor role ontologies and taxonomies	5
Do graphical abstracts on a publisher's official website have an effect on articles' usage and citations? A propensity score matching analysis	5
Publons as a source of high volume, poorly targeted reviewer requests: The need for better standards of practice by publishers	5
An analysis of journalism articles achieving high Altmetric attention scores	5
The two faces of the corresponding author and the need to separate them	5
Use of preprint peer review to educate and enculturate science undergraduates	5
ORCID growth and field‐wise dynamics of adoption: A case study of the Toulouse scientific area	5
A study of the determinants of psychologists' data sharing and open data badge adoption	5
Promotion and caution in research article abstracts: The use of positive, negative and hedge words across disciplines and rankings	5
A perpetual motion machine: The preserved digital scholarly record	4
scite: The next generation of citations	4
Enhancing journal reputation and academic socialization: Review feedback matters beyond its gatekeeping function	4

Visegrád countries' scientific productivity in the European context: A 10‐year perspective using Web of Science and Scopus	4
Investigating gender differences in journal selection decisions: A survey of academic researchers	4
Is a journal's ranking related to the reviewer's academic impact? (An empirical study based on Publons)	4
Archiving website‐based references in academic papers: Problems caused by reference rot, potential solutions and limitations	4
Tracing the footsteps of open research data in China	4
Who are the users of national open access journals? The case of the Finnish Journal.fi platform	4
The importance of effective data sharing and reuse to funders and others supporting research	4
The resilience of scientific publication: From elite ancient academies to open access	4
The impact of the pandemic on early career researchers' work‐life and scholarly communications: A quantitative aerial analysis	4
Reuse‐oriented data publishing: How to make the shared research data friendlier for researchers	4
Perceptions regarding open science appraised by editors of scholarly publications published in Spain	4
From sensemaking to sensegiving: A discourse analysis of the scholarly communications community's public response to the global pandemic	4
Beyond data: Sharing related research outputs to make data reusable	4
The need for accelerated change in diversity, equity and inclusion in publishing and learned societies	4