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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The past, present and future of publishing: Observations to celebrate ALPSP's 50th year	45
Anonymous editorials in biomedical research journals: Few in number but potentially problematic	41
De Gruyter name change policy: Case study for learned publishing	37
Obvious artificial intelligence‐generated anomalies in published journal articles: A call for enhanced editorial diligence	36
Recycling Research Without (Self‐)Plagiarism: The Importance of Context and the Case of Conference Contributions	33
Beyond borders: Examining the role of national learned societies in the social sciences and humanities	31
Evolution and adoption of contributor role ontologies and taxonomies	29
On building community in scholarly publishing: Modern ambitions and actions inspired by ancient wisdoms	28
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Scaling up open access publishing through transformative agreements: Results from 2019 to 2022	22
Public access policy in the United States: Impact of the Scholarly Publishing Roundtable	22
‘Death of the Journal’: An editor's view	20
The stock characters in the editorial boards of journals run by predatory publishers	19
Article processing charges for open access journal publishing: A review	18
Editorial actions taken to reduce publishing references from predatory sources: A case study	17
Using online machine translation in international scholarly writing and publishing: A longitudinal case of a Chinese engineering scholar	17
Where are the carrots? A proposal to start crediting peer reviewers for their contribution to science	17
Systematic examination of post‐ and pre‐citation of Indian‐authored retracted papers	16
Collaborating for growth: Insights from Publisherspeak UK 2024, a scholarly publishing community gathering – part 1	16
Tips for writing plain language summaries of medical journal publications	15
Issue Information	15
Where predatory and mainstream journals differ: A study of language and linguistics journals	15
Article processing charge expenditure in Chile: The current situation	14
Investigation of potential gender bias in the peer review system at Reproduction	11
Chinese humanities scholars' reading of academic E‐books: A survey on reading strategies and tasks	11

Implementing a diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility strategy: Lessons learned at five scholarly communications organizations	11
A technology‐based, financially sustainable, quality improvement intervention in a medical journal for bilingualism from submission to publication	11
Issue Information	11
Perceptions regarding open science appraised by editors of scholarly publications published in Spain	10
Scholarly journal publishing in Australia	10
Beyond PRISMA 2020 and AMSTAR 2: Further Actions Are Needed to Deal With Problematic Meta‐Analyses	10
Thanking our reviewers 2021	10
Who are the users of national open access journals? The case of the Finnish Journal.fi platform	10
Perceptions on the prevalence and impact of predatory academic journals and conferences: A global survey of researchers	9
Issue Information	9
Journal editors and journal indexes: Internationalization pressures in the semi‐periphery of the world of science	9
Small Is Sexy: Rethinking Article Length in the Age of AI	9
Family Medicine editors collaborate towards antiracist publishing	8
Moving Open Repositories out of the Blind Spot of Initiatives to Correct the Scholarly Record	8
Unravelling Citation Rules: A Comparative Analysis of Referencing Instruction Patterns in Scopus‐Indexed Journals	8
The ‘long and winding road’ for digital accessibility	7
Correction to “DeepGreen—A Data Hub for the Distribution of Scholarly Articles From Publishers to Open Access Repositories in Germany”	7
Do you still need to make that trip?	7
Are journal archiving and embargo policies impeding the success of India's open access policy?	7
University presses and societal challenges: Practical steps for change	7
Analysing overlay journals: The state‐of‐the‐art in 2021 and possible perspectives	7
Issue Information	6
Academic journals' usernames and the threat of fraudulent accounts on social media	6
Nurturing an ‘ethic of collaboration’: Dispatches from a case study on Jindal Global Law Review	6
Issue Information	6
Research assistants: Scientific credit and recognized authorship	6
From being disrupted to being a disruptor: How university presses are helping to drive positive change	6
Philosophers' perceptions of pay to publish and open access in Spain: Books versus journals, more than a financial dilemma	6
The rise of a mega‐journal in public health publishing	6
Analysis of predatory emails in early career academia and attempts at prevention	6
An analysis of publishing studies journals: An insight into the structure of the field based on publications	6
Lessons learned from an evolving DEI programme within a global publisher	6
Promotion and caution in research article abstracts: The use of positive, negative and hedge words across disciplines and rankings	6
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Lessons learned from ORCID DE—A project‐driven initiative to promote author identification in Germany	6
Three recommended inclusive language guidelines for scholarly publishing: Words matter	6
Alternatives to English only in scholarly publishing: Emerging trends of language policies among non‐Anglophone journals?	6
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	5
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BioOne and SPIE: A reflection on the first 3 years of the nonprofit platform partnership	5
The importance of effective data sharing and reuse to funders and others supporting research	5
Questionnaires mentioned in academic research 1996–2019: Rapid increase but declining citation impact	5
Regional spillover effect of 2022 sanctions against Russia on scholarly publications	5
Rates of editor‐authored manuscripts among urology journals using blinded or non‐blinded review	5
Initial insight into three modes of data sharing: Prevalence of primary reuse, data integration and dataset release in research articles	5
Purchase and publish: Early career researchers and open access publishing costs	5
Long‐term outcomes of 2‐day training on planning and writing research on publication output of medical professionals: 11‐year cohort study	5
‘Cracks’ in the scholarly communications system: Insights from a longitudinal international study of early career researchers	5
Editing a journal at the semiperiphery: Ambivalence of juniority and meaningfulness of publishing	5
Authors publishing repeatedly in predatory journals: An analysis of Scopus articles	4

Macao's academic book publishing industry: A SWOT and PEST analysis	4
Three sustainability case studies in the scholarly publishing ecosystem	4
Issue Information	4
Fortification of retraction notices to improve their transparency and usefulness	4
Review of the Coalition for Diversity and Inclusion in Scholarly Communications' ‘Toolkits for Equity’	4
Special issues: The roles of special issues in scholarly communication in a changing publishing landscape	4
Risks of abuse of large language models, like ChatGPT, in scientific publishing: Authorship, predatory publishing, and paper mills	4
Understanding China's construction of an academic integrity system: A grounded theory study on national level policies	4
Reflection on the Springer Nature initial public offering attempts in an evolving academic publishing market	4