Biased online media coverage: chiropractic and stroke in google news

Al-Azdee, Mohammed; Perle, Stephen M.; He, Bingjie

doi:10.1186/s12998-018-0189-8

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“…Despite the initial positive experience of appointing social media editors to promote journal articles,8990 related social communication activities are still not thoroughly controlled by journal editors and publishers. In such a scenario, biased and misleading comments may find their way to the online platforms, leading to unintentional and intentional damages to scholarly outputs 919293. Skewed opinion polls and geographically disproportionate online activities can also negatively affect post-publication communication, particularly because of the active use of Twitter and other powerful social platforms by scholars in developed countries and passive stance of those in developing countries 9495…”

Section: Social Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

Comprehensive Approach to Open Access Publishing: Platforms and Tools

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The Open Access Initiative is gaining momentum due to the worldwide availability of advanced digital tools, online publishing platforms, and systems for tracking academic contributions. Several declarations and initiatives, including Plan S, have already laid a foundation for moving away from subscription to full and immediate open-access publishing. The global initiatives imply targeting journals satisfying the upgraded quality and visibility criteria. To meet these criteria, a comprehensive approach to Open Access is recommended. This article overviews the essential components of the comprehensive approach, increasing transparency, adherence to ethical standards, and diversification of evaluation metrics. With the increasing volume of quality open-access journals, their indexing with free databases and search engines is becoming increasingly important. The Directory of Open Access Journals and PubMed Central currently free searches of open-access sources. These services, however, cannot fully satisfy the increasing demands of the users, and attempts are underway to upgrade the indexing and archiving of open-access sources in China, Japan, Korea, Russia, and elsewhere. The wide use of identifiers is essential for transparency of scholarly communications. Peer reviewers are now offered credits from Publons. These credits are transferrable to their Open Researcher and Contributor iDs. Various social media channels are increasingly used by scholars to comment on articles. All these comments are tracked by related metric systems, such as Altmetrics. Combined with traditional citation evaluations, the alternative metrics can help timely identify and promote publications influencing education, research, and practice.

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