Focusing on the political economy of science, this article presents an overview of the current scientific journal market. In particular, it analyzes the role of the large publishing conglomerates. The main trends of change within this market are also reviewed: open access initiatives in their different aspects, the expansion of forms of editorial piracy, the emergence and rapid growth of a segment of publishers and journals of low or fraudulent quality, the rise of academic social networks, and the importance of public and institutional policies.Do ponto de vista da economia política da ciência, este artigo apresenta um quadro sobre a situação atual do sistema de revistas científicas. Para tanto, analisa-se o funcionamento do mercado de rev...
Present and future of scientific journals. Evolution of scientific journals in the last 40 years and...
This editorial essay deals with the challenges that social science journals are facing in the curren...
Surveillance studies favor the identification of the latest trends of an object for decision making...
As the Revista Española de Drogodependencias is now going to be published only in electronic format,...
Introduction: Information and communication technologies have provided new ways of publishing scient...
The researchers worldwide have multiple alternatives to publish and disseminate their scientific pro...
Introducción: la producción es parte esencial de la actividad científica y su visibilidad es un indi...
This chapter analyses the historical development of scientific journal purchasing models, from tradi...
Academic publications are moving from a pay-per-read model to a pay-per-publication model. These jou...
Existen ejemplos de revistas electrónica científicas de acceso abierto (open access, OA) desde la ap...
The current ease of online publishing has led to an excess of e-journals, all struggling to attract ...
This chapter looks at some of the key innovations and developments that have recently arisen in the ...
The beginnings of scientific journals were due to the need for communication between scientists, sin...
Open access (OA), electronic, scientific journals have existed since the start of the Internet. Neve...
In this paper we analyzed the publications presented by authors from Argentine and Brazil in special...
Present and future of scientific journals. Evolution of scientific journals in the last 40 years and...
This editorial essay deals with the challenges that social science journals are facing in the curren...
Surveillance studies favor the identification of the latest trends of an object for decision making...
As the Revista Española de Drogodependencias is now going to be published only in electronic format,...
Introduction: Information and communication technologies have provided new ways of publishing scient...
The researchers worldwide have multiple alternatives to publish and disseminate their scientific pro...
Introducción: la producción es parte esencial de la actividad científica y su visibilidad es un indi...
This chapter analyses the historical development of scientific journal purchasing models, from tradi...
Academic publications are moving from a pay-per-read model to a pay-per-publication model. These jou...
Existen ejemplos de revistas electrónica científicas de acceso abierto (open access, OA) desde la ap...
The current ease of online publishing has led to an excess of e-journals, all struggling to attract ...
This chapter looks at some of the key innovations and developments that have recently arisen in the ...
The beginnings of scientific journals were due to the need for communication between scientists, sin...
Open access (OA), electronic, scientific journals have existed since the start of the Internet. Neve...
In this paper we analyzed the publications presented by authors from Argentine and Brazil in special...
Present and future of scientific journals. Evolution of scientific journals in the last 40 years and...
This editorial essay deals with the challenges that social science journals are facing in the curren...
Surveillance studies favor the identification of the latest trends of an object for decision making...