The role of DOAJ in quality assurance of OA publishing

THE ROLE OF DOAJ IN
QUALITY ASSURANCE OF
OPEN ACCESS
PUBLISHING
ISMTE BEIJING 2017
MARCH 26-29, 2017
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• W h a t i s t h e q u a l i t y o f a j o u r n a l ?
• Quality of publishing（出版的质量）
• Quality of the science （科学的质量）
• I n d e x i n g s e r v i c e s : S C O P U S , Wo S , D O A J
• D O A J c r i t e r i a f o r g o o d p u b l i s h i n g p r a c t i c e s
• D O A J c r i t e r i a f o r g o o d o p e n a c c e s s
• O p e n a c c e s s c o p y r i g h t a n d l i c e n s i n g
• H o w i s s c i e n t i fi c q u a l i t y m e a s u r e d ?
• D O A J u s e s i n d i r e c t q u a l i t y a s s e s s m e n t
• A r t i c l e , j o u r n a l , s c i e n t i s t q u a l i t y
• C i t a t i o n s , A l t m e t r i c s , J I F, C i t e s c o r e , h - I n d e x
• H o w D O A J d e a l s w i t h q u e s t i o n a b l e p u b l i s h e r s
Presentation overview
内容概要

• QUALITY OF PUBLISHING （出版的质量）
• QUALITY OF THE SCIENCE （科学的质
量）
Assessing the Quality of a Journal
核期刊的量审质
WHAT IS QUALITY?

• DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals
O P E N A C C E S S J O U R N A L S O N L Y
• SCOPUS
O P E N A C C E S S & S U B S C R I P T I O N J O U R N A L S
• WEB OF SCIENCE
• NATIONAL LISTS
INDEXING SERVICES
数据库收录
for quality control

Centrally, publicly and internationally available community-curated list of high quality open
access journal titles across all disciplines and languages
The starting point for all information searches for quality, peer-reviewed open access material
A hub for metadata for Open Access articles and journals
What is the DOAJ?
DOAJ 是什么？

• DOAJ CRITERIA FOR QUALITY OPEN
ACCESS PUBLISHING
•Principles of transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly
Publishing
•(DOAJ, OASPA, COPE, WAME)
Assessing the Quality of Publishing
（衡量出版量）质

Required information when
applying for DOAJ
收录 DOAJ 所需的信息
*Basic
requirement （＊
为基本要求）
https://doaj.org/publishers

1. Peer review process *
2. Governing Body
3. Editorial
team/contact*
4. Author fees*
5. Copyright&Licensing*
6. Identification of and
dealing with allegations
of research misconduct
7. Ownership and
management
8. Website*
9. Name of journal*
10. Conflicts of interest
11. Access *
12. Revenue sources
13. Advertising
14. Publishing schedule
15. Archiving
16. Direct marketing
The Principles （原则） Good
Publishing Practice

Journal Web Site * 期刊网站
• Dedicated web site per journal – journal
specific web address*
• Unique identifier (web address) *:
• Journal level
• Article metadata level (also DOI)
• Full text article level (pdf, html, xml, epub)
• ISSN (International Standard Serial Number) *
• Print ISSN and/or
• Online ISSN

Editorial Office & Editorial Team
编辑部 & 编辑团队
• Editor*/Editor-in-Chief/Associate Editor/Co-
Editor
• Full names, Affiliations, Countries, Emails*
• Postal address of office
• Contact information: email/telephone

Author Fees 作者费用
• Clearly visible for prospective authors – also if
no charges apply*
• Article Processing Charges (APCs)
• Article Submission Charges (APCs)
• Other fees
• Waiver policy

Peer Review Process* 同行评议
• Advice on individual manuscripts from
reviewers/ experts in the field who are not
part of the journal's editorial staf
• Quality control rigorous
• Process & policies clearly described on
journal's web site
• Editorial/Peer - Blind/Double blind/Open*

Access & Usage 获取 & 使用
• Full text of all content available as Open
Access, no delay/embargo*
• How accessible is journal to the rest of the
world, harvesters (TDM Text & Data Mining)
• Journal specific OA statement/policy*
• Diferentiate between OA statement –
Copyright – Licensing*

Copyrights 权利
• Clearly described on web site*
• Recommend: author retains copyright
• Recommend: no exclusive publishing rights
• Recommend: no transfer of commercial
rights
https://doajournals.wordpress.com/2015/06/02/copyright-and-licensing-part-2/

Content Licensing 内容许可
• Clearly described on web site*
• Recommend:
• licensing terms on all articles,
all versions (html, pdf, xml etc.)
• embedded in article level metadata
• Creative Commons licensing

• A r t i c l e s o n l i n e f r e e t o r e a d = O p e n A c c e s s ?
A r t i c l e s o n l i n e f r e e t o d o w n l o a d = O p e n A c c e s s ?
• A u t h o r s c a n o n l y u s e a c c e p t e d o p e n a c c e s s a r t i c l e s f o r c l a s s r o o m
u s e , p u t t h e m o n t h e i r o w n o r i n s t i t u t e w e b s i t e , m a k e l i m i t e d n r o f
p r i n t s i s o p e n a c c e s s ?
• A u t h o r s n e e d t o r e t a i n t h e i r c o p y r i g h t i n O p e n A c c e s s ?
NO
• O p e n A c c e s s n e e d s B O A I s t a t e m e n t o n j o u r n a l w e b s i t e ,
s a y i n g t h e a r t i c l e w i l l b e i m m e d i a t e o p e n a c c e s s , f r e e t o r e a d ,
d o w n l o a d , d i s t r i b u t e , p r i n t o r u s e f o r w h a t e v e r o t h e r l e g a l p u r p o s e
A N D O p e n A c c e s s n e e d s l i c e n s i n g c o n d i t i o n s t e l l i n g w h o m a y u s e
a r t i c l e c o n t e n t a n d f o r w h a t p u r p o s e s
f o r i n s t a n c e C C - B Y, C C - B Y- N C , C C - B Y- S A
•
Common Misunderstandings on Open Access
开放取常的解对获见误

Examples of Copyright & Licensing in
Chinese Journals (1)
中国期刊的版权规定示例（ 1 ）
• The Shanghai Archives of Psychiatry is an open-access journal. All users have the right to read, download,
copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of all articles published on Shanghai Archives of
Psychiatry. The full text of all articles published since the beginning of 2011 are freely available from the
journal’s website or from Pubmed both in html and pdf formats. the copyright is reserved to the Editorial
Department of Shanghai Archives of Psychiatry.
• All articles published by JIMW are made available under an open access license worldwide
immediately.And COPYRIGHT AND LICENSING is cc by-nc-nd Copyright ：《 Journal of Infrared And
Millimeter Waves.

中国期刊版权规定示例（ 2 ）
• This journal (CIGR) provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research
freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. [no licensing described:
open access statement alone insufficient)
• OFTEN SEEN: Only mention of "open access" , no open access
statement , no copyright and license description
• Journal: Guoji Yanke Zazhi Accepted papers may not be reproduced by any means, in whole or in part,
without the written consent of the publisher.At the same time the journal states : Users are allowed to read,
download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other
lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author.
• International Journal of Ophthalmology. Open access. Accepted papers may not be reproduced by any
means, in whole or in part, without the written consent of the publisher. License CC-BY- NC-ND

中国期刊版权规定示例（ 3 ）
• Journal: Knowledge Management Forum. I use the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) agreement to
allow everyone to download, reuse, copy, adapt, disseminate published articles, please refer to the author
and article when the source (recommended cited formats such as: Wu Qinghai. Enterprise knowledge
extraction Theoretical and Practical Research [J / OL]. Knowledge Management Forum, 2016, 1 (4): 243-250
[Quote Date]. Http://www.kmf.ac.cn/p/1/36/.
• Zhishi guanli luntan 我刊采用知识共享署名（ CC BY ）协议，允许所有人下载、再利用、复制、改编、传播所发表的文
章，引用时请注明作者和文章出处（推荐引用格式如：吴庆海．企业知识萃取理论与实践研究 [J/OL]. 知识管理论坛 , 2016,
1(4): 243-250[ 引用日期 ]. http://www.kmf.ac.cn/p/1/36/. ）。
• Open access to papers for people for education, research and free download, reading, dissemination and
preservation. The copyright of authors and author institutions will be properly protected. Any person who
uses the author's essay should accurately mark the author and the paper published information. If a third
party uses the content of the paper for commercial purposes or produces derivative works, the author
agrees.
• 开放获取论文是供人们为教育、科研而免费下载、阅读、传播和保存。作者和作者机构的著作权将得到妥善保护。任何人在使
用作者论文时应准确标注作者及论文出版信息。如果第三方要将论文内容用于商业目的或制作衍生作品，需要得到作者同意。

Copyright & Licensing
the ideal situation
最佳的版定权规
Author retains
copyright
• Article published using
CC-BYPublisher has
copyright
• Article published using
CC-BY

o C I TAT I O N A N A LY S I S I S F L AW E D
o Citing does not necessarily mean having read, self-
citation, many articles instead of one, many authors
per article, author contribution, ghost authors, journal
impact factor not related to individual article quality
o P E E R - R E V I E W S Y S T E M S H AV E P R O B L E M S
o Fake peer review, biased peer review, experts
disagree (too) much in assessments
Assessing Quality of Research
核科学的量审质

OTHER DRAWBACKS
o I ND I V I D UA L C I TAT I ON S C O R E : T H E H - I ND E X H I G H E S T
NU M B E R ( N) O F A RT I C L E S W I T H ( N ) C I TAT I O NS
B E C O M E S H I G H E R W H E N NU M B E R O F PU B L I C AT I O NS
I N C R E A S E S
o T H E J O U R NA L I M PA C T FA C T OR ( J I F) I S H I G H E R W H E N A
FE W A RT I C LE S H AV E H I G H C I TAT I O N R AT E S
o T H E J I F I S H I G H LY B I A S E D T O WA R D S E NG L I S H
L A NG UA G E PU B L I C AT I ONS
Citation Based Metrics
基于引用的指标

Table 2: Percentage of papers
published in 2013-2014 with
number of citations below the value
of the 2015 JIF.
Larivière et al. (2016)
highly skewed distribution of
citations
高度不平衡的文献引用分布
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.11
01/062109

o T H E S C I E N T I F I C Q UA L I T Y O F A J O U R N A L C A N N O T B E
A SS E SS E D BY T H E AV E R A G E C I TAT I O N S C O R E S O F
A RT I C L E S
( T H E J O U R N A L I M PA C T FA C T O R J I F )
o T H E S C I E N T I F I C Q UA L I T Y O F A RT I C L E S C A N N O T B E
A SS E SS E D BY W H E R E T H E Y A R E PU B L I S H E D
o T H E S C I E N T I F I C Q UA L I T Y O F S C I E N T I S T C A N N O T B E
A SS E SS E D BY W H E R E O R H O W M U C H T H E Y PU B L I S H
o S C I E N T I F I C Q UA L I T Y C A N O N LY B E A SS E SS E D O N
A RT I C L E L E V E L
Assessing Quality of Research
核科学的量审质

ALTMETRICS
TA K I N G I N TO A C C O U N T C I TAT I O N S, S O C I A L MED I A ,
C O N VE N T I A L MED I A ( N EW S PAP ER S, T V, VI D EO )
RELATIVE CITATION SCORES
C I TAT I O N I N D I C ES A D J U S TE D F O R S C I EN T I F I C F I E L D
Article Level Impact Assessment
基于文献的影力估响评
LEIDEN MANIFESTO
doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.
1101/062109
DORA
The San Francisco
Declaration on Research
Assessment
doi: 10.1242/dmm.012955

San Francisco Declaration on Research
Impact
关于科研影力的旧金山声明响
http://www.ascb.org/dora/

How we detect questionable
journals
我们如何发现可疑期刊
• Low publishing quality
Journal name, website, fees, peer review, publisher, ownership,
volume of articles, advertisements, prominent soliciting for editors
• Low scientific quality
focus, format, self-citations, plagiarism
• Malpractice
false claims, hidden costs, spamming authors, wrong information
The problem of
questionable journals

Questionable Publishing in
Perspective
对于可疑出版行为的看法
• Beall’s list has promoted a belief that open
access publishing is synonymous with bad
publishing
• But bad publishing exists in subscription
based publishing as well (consult
Retraction Watch)
The problem of
questionable journals

Questionable Publishing in
Perspective
对于可疑出版行为的看法
• Not as frequent as suggested in open
access
according to a study* by Walt Crawford the number
questionable journals in 2014 was about 3275 publishing about
121,000 articles
(Shen and Björk reported 8000 journals and 420,000 articles!!)
• Proportion of low quality journals is
comparable between open access and
subscription publishing
Shen and
Björk.
BMC
Medicine2
01513:230
* Source :
http://walt.lishost.org/2015/11/ppppred
atory-article-counts-an-investigation-
part-1/
** Source: Walt Crawford
http://citesandinsights.info/civ17i1.pdf

IF OPEN ACCESS WERE REALLY SUCH
LOW QUALITY.....
 W H Y W O U L D B I G P U B L I S H E R S S W I T C H T O O P E N A C C E S S ?
 W H Y W O U L D 3 0 % O F A L L S T M PA P E R S T O D AT E B E
P U B L I S H E D U S I N G O P E N A C C E S S ?
 W H Y W O U L D O P E N A C C E S S G R O W AT T W I C E T H E R AT E O F
S U B S C R I P T I O N B A S E D A C C E S S ?
•
The Reality of Open Access
关于开放取的事获实

OPEN ACCESS.....
• A RT I C L E S R E C E I V E M O R E C I TAT I O N S
• R E A C H E S A B I G G E R A U D I E N C E
• L E A D S T O B E T T E R E D U C AT I O N
• AVO I D S D U P L I C AT E S T U D I E S
• A RT I C L E S C A N B E M O R E E A S I LY C H E C K E D
• D ATA L E SS P R O N E T O M A N I P U L AT I O N
• I S B E T T E R F O R A DVA N C I N G S C I E N C E
• L E A D S T O M O R E I N N OVAT I O N
The Reality of Open Access
真正的开放取获

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