Stojanovski, Jadranka (2015) Journals’ editorial policies – an analysis of the instructions for authors of Croatian open access journals. In: Schmidt, Birgit; Dobreva, Milena, (eds.) New Avenues for Electronic Publishing in the Age of Infinite Collections and Citizen Science: Scale, Openness and Trust. Amsterdam, IOS Press, pp. 113-119 .
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Abstract
The growing number of publications presenting research findings, the pressure on scientists to produce publications in great quantity, and the shift in the business models of many journals increased importance of journals’ editorial practices, which are well represented in guidelines for preparing the manuscript for submission. Journals have a special responsibility to protect research integrity and to keep trust in journal publishing. This study looked at information on editorial practices in the instructions for authors of Croatian Open Access journals. 283 instructions for authors from all disciplines were examined according to the broad range of publishing issues grouped in hierarchically organized categories. Mostly addressed issues were manuscript layout (276/283) and journal language (269/283). The most common ethical issues among journals from all disciplines were responsibility of author (73/283), funding (52/283), and accuracy (51/283). There are several ethical issues addressed significantly more often by biomedical journals, like responsibility of authors (14/30), publishing ethics (14/30), conflict of interest (12/30), funding (11/30), and authorship (11/30). In comparison with ethical issues common publishing issues like manuscript layout, manuscript elements, and type of paper were richly represented in journals from all disciplines.
Item Type: | Conference or workshop item published in conference proceedings (UNSPECIFIED) |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Instructions for authors; publishing ethics; Open Access; Croatia |
Subjects: | SOCIAL SCIENCES > Information and Communication Sciences SOCIAL SCIENCES > Information and Communication Sciences > Information Systems and Information Science SOCIAL SCIENCES > Information and Communication Sciences > Library Science SOCIAL SCIENCES > Information and Communication Sciences > Journalism |
Divisions: | Centre for scientific information |
Depositing User: | Jadranka Stojanovski |
Date Deposited: | 20 Oct 2015 10:10 |
URI: | http://fulir.irb.hr/id/eprint/2162 |
DOI: | 10.3233/978-1-61499-562-3-113 |
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