Group 3:
The quality of the open access journals is not recognized by the conventional credit system. (e.g. EPFL does not finance to publish in hybrid open-access journals)
- pros for publishing in open access journals: more citations, a further outreach of knowledge dissemination
- cons for publishing in open access journals : money, and not recognized in the conventional crediting systems
Solutions:
- (3) Use alternative systems to evaluate the impact of a single article, but not the journal. examples: Altmetric, PLOS (showing numbers on sharing/viewing/citating)
- (3) Give credit on efforts that has been put into the process of data collection/data analysis/publication.
- (3) Have a standardized way to reference the data that is published. (e.g. create a doi from a github project)
- (3) Make data open, but control the access to datasets (Fig.1)
- Famous and well-known Professors should be encouraged to publish more in Open access journals (penguin effect).