Attitudes toward Open Access, Open Peer Review, and Altmetrics among Contributors to Spanish Scholarly Journals

Segado‐Boj, Francisco; Quevedo, Juan Martín; Prieto-Gutiérrez, Juan José

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“…Overall, respondents reported generally positive attitudes towards open peer-review. In 2018, Segado-Boj, Martín-Quevedo and Prieto-Gutiérrez, surveyed authors of Spanish journals (n = 295), mostly from social sciences (63%) with 7 questions, but they did not report on the questionnaires validity or reliability [ 54 ]. Overall, participants were found to be cautious towards open peer review.…”

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Attitudes and practices of open data, preprinting, and peer-review—A cross sectional study on Croatian scientists

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Attitudes towards open peer review, open data and use of preprints influence scientists’ engagement with those practices. Yet there is a lack of validated questionnaires that measure these attitudes. The goal of our study was to construct and validate such a questionnaire and use it to assess attitudes of Croatian scientists. We first developed a 21-item questionnaire called Attitudes towards Open data sharing, preprinting, and peer-review (ATOPP), which had a reliable four-factor structure, and measured attitudes towards open data, preprint servers, open peer-review and open peer-review in small scientific communities. We then used the ATOPP to explore attitudes of Croatian scientists (n = 541) towards these topics, and to assess the association of their attitudes with their open science practices and demographic information. Overall, Croatian scientists’ attitudes towards these topics were generally neutral, with a median (Md) score of 3.3 out of max 5 on the scale score. We also found no gender (P = 0.995) or field differences (P = 0.523) in their attitudes. However, attitudes of scientist who previously engaged in open peer-review or preprinting were higher than of scientists that did not (Md 3.5 vs. 3.3, P<0.001, and Md 3.6 vs 3.3, P<0.001, respectively). Further research is needed to determine optimal ways of increasing scientists’ attitudes and their open science practices.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Attitudes and practices of open data, preprinting, and peer-review—A cross sectional study on Croatian scientists

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“…Junior researchers have been found to hold much more positive views of OA than their senior counterparts (Nicholas et al ., ; Tenopir et al ., ). ECRs also think to a greater degree than other age cohorts that OA increases the visibility and citation rates of articles (Segado‐Boj, Martín‐Quevedo, & Prieto‐Gutiérrez, )…”

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A global questionnaire survey of the scholarly communication attitudes and behaviours of early career researchers

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This article describes an international study informed by a 3-year-long qualitative longitudinal project, which sought to discover the scholarly communication attitudes and behaviour of early career researchers (ECRs). Using a combination of small-scale interviews and a larger-scale survey, ECRs were questioned on their searching and reading behaviour, publishing practices, open data, and their use of social media. Questionnaire invitations were sent out via publisher lists, social media networks, university research networks, and specialist ECR membership organizations. Onethousand and six-hundred responses were received, with many coming from China, Russia, and Poland. Results showed that ECRs are adopting millennial-facing tools/platforms, with Google, Google Scholar, social media, and smartphones becoming embedded in their scholarly activities. Open data sharing obtains widespread support but somewhat less practice. There are some differences in attitudes and behaviour according to age and subject specialism.

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“…Indeed, junior researchers have been found to manifest much more positive views of open access than their senior counterparts (Nicholas et al ., ; Ruiz‐Pérez & Delgado‐López‐Cózar, ; Tenopir et al ., ), to the extent that they are even more interested than their older colleagues in replacing the traditional subscription‐based system with an open access one (Blankstein & Wolff‐Eisenberg, ; Wolff, Rod, & Schonfeld, ). However, as Segado‐Boj, Martín‐Quevedo, and Prieto‐Gutiérrez () found, it is more nuanced than that. Early career academics among their respondents, who were contributors to Spanish scholarly journals, thought to a greater degree than other age cohorts that open access increases the visibility of articles and citations to them.…”

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Does the scholarly communication system satisfy the beliefs and aspirations of new researchers? Summarizing the Harbingers research

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A study from the Harbingers research project provides a comprehensive assessment of the main features of the scholarly communications system as viewed by early career researchers (ECRs) in the final year of the study (2018). Aspects covered are: discovery and access, authorship practices, peer review, publishing strategies, open access publishing, open data, sharing, collaboration, social media, metrics, impact, reputation, libraries, publishers, and scholarly transformations. Nearly 120 science and social science researchers from seven countries were questioned about these 16 aspects. It was found that some scholarly features work well for ECRs, and in this category can be included: discovery and access, authorship practices, sharing, collaboration, and publishers. Reputation, publishing strategies, and impact are more problematical, and they, in turn, cause tensions regarding some other factors – social media, open access, and open data. Of the rest, libraries are largely invisible, and ECRs have conflicting views concerning ethical behaviour. Few envisage that transformational change will take place in the next 5 years.

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Attitudes toward Open Access, Open Peer Review, and Altmetrics among Contributors to Spanish Scholarly Journals

Cited by 31 publications

References 37 publications

Attitudes and practices of open data, preprinting, and peer-review—A cross sectional study on Croatian scientists

Attitudes and practices of open data, preprinting, and peer-review—A cross sectional study on Croatian scientists

A global questionnaire survey of the scholarly communication attitudes and behaviours of early career researchers

Does the scholarly communication system satisfy the beliefs and aspirations of new researchers? Summarizing the Harbingers research

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