WRITING AND PUBLICATION · 21 entries
Writing and Publication.
Entries on scholarly communication practices and infrastructure: peer review, impact factor, journal stratification, persistent identifiers, editorial ethics, and ICMJE/CRediT guidelines.
Acknowledgments Manuscript section recognizing contributions not sufficient for authorship under ICMJE: funding, infrastructure, technical support, critical review, research service provision. Standard form to declare substantive contributions that do not meet the four authorship criteria.
Writing Article Processing Charge (APC) Fee charged by gold or hybrid OA journals to process and publish an accepted article. Typically ranges from US$ 500 to US$ 12,000 depending on journal prestige. Can be paid by author, institution, funding agency, or via waiver.
Writing CiteScore Bibliometric metric launched by Elsevier in December 2016, based on Scopus data. Computes citations received in one year to documents published in the four preceding years. Open, free, and covers more journals than JIF.
Writing Conflict of interest Situation where secondary interests (financial, personal, professional) may unduly influence judgment about primary interest (research rigor). Mandatory declaration in manuscripts via ICMJE form. Reporting does not eliminate; transparency is the defense.
Writing COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) International nonprofit founded in 1997 that sets editorial ethics standards. Maintains Core Practices, Code of Conduct, and flowcharts for misconduct. Over 13,000 member journals and publishers. Operational reference in publication integrity.
Writing Cover letter Short document accompanying manuscript submission to a journal, addressed to the editor, articulating work relevance, fit with journal scope, and editorial declarations (originality, no parallel submission). Influences initial editorial triage.
Writing CRediT taxonomy Contributor Roles Taxonomy: international standard of 14 contribution categories in academic manuscripts, maintained by CASRAI/NISO. Replaces the generic notion of authorship with explicit role declaration. Adopted by more than 100,000 journals.
Writing Errata and corrigenda Editorial instruments correcting errors in published articles while preserving findings. Erratum: publisher error (composition, figure, typography). Corrigendum: author error (calculation, attribution, data). Distinct from retraction, which removes reliability.
Writing H-index Bibliometric metric proposed by Jorge Hirsch in 2005 combining productivity and impact: a researcher has h-index equal to h if they published h articles each with at least h citations. Widely used and widely contested in quantitative research evaluation.
Writing ICMJE International Committee of Medical Journal Editors. International committee that defines editorial conventions for authorship, conflicts of interest, peer review, and integrity in scholarly production across biomedical and health sciences, with adoption in adjacent fields.
Writing Impact factor Ratio of citations received to citable items published in the two preceding years in a journal — a bibliometric metric created by Eugene Garfield in 1955 and published annually by JCR (Clarivate). Recognized for both its use and contestation (DORA 2012, CoARA 2022).
Writing Journal quartile classification (Q1–Q4) Classification of journals into four quartiles (Q1 to Q4) by subject area, based on a bibliometric metric (JIF, SJR, or CiteScore). Q1 holds the top 25% of the field; Q4 the bottom 25%. Dominant editorial and evaluation criterion.
Writing Open Access Academic publishing model in which content is free and openly accessible to readers, with no subscription barrier. Exists in four main variants — gold, green, diamond, and hybrid — with different funding and licensing models.
Writing Peer review Central mechanism of scientific validation in which external reviewers evaluate a manuscript before publication. Modalities: single-blind, double-blind, open peer review, post-publication peer review. Structure inherited from the 18th century, formalized in the 20th.
Writing Plan S International initiative launched in 2018 by cOAlition S — a coalition of European and global research funders — requiring immediate, embargo-free open access for publications resulting from signatory funding. Full implementation since 2021.
Writing Predatory publishing Journal that charges APCs without offering rigorous peer review or legitimate editorial practices, exploiting authors and polluting the scientific literature. Term coined by Jeffrey Beall in 2010. Consensus definition in Grudniewicz et al. (2019, Nature).
Writing Preprint Version of an academic manuscript deposited in an open repository before or alongside submission to a journal. arXiv (1991) started the practice in physics; bioRxiv (2013), SciELO Preprints, and SSRN extended it to other fields. Receives DOI, is citable.
Writing Qualis CAPES Brazilian CAPES journal stratification system used for quadrennial evaluation of stricto sensu graduate programs. Reformulated in 2019 with unified ranking (A1-C) based on international metrics (JIF, CiteScore, SJR, h-index).
Writing Response to reviewers Technical document accompanying a revised manuscript, responding point by point to reviewer comments with text modifications and justifications. Decisive for the revision outcome: accept, re-revise, reject.
Writing Retraction Formal removal of an article from the scientific record due to fundamental error, misconduct, or irreproducibility. Not erasure: the article remains with a visible retraction notice and active DOI. COPE defines the workflow. Retraction Watch monitors since 2010.
Writing SJR (SCImago Journal Rank) Journal prestige indicator proposed by González-Pereira et al. in 2010. Applies a PageRank-derived algorithm to Scopus citations, weighting each citation by the prestige of the citing journal. Open, free, structural alternative to JIF.
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