OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Learned Publishing is 5. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Anonymous editorials in biomedical research journals: Few in number but potentially problematic	61
De Gruyter name change policy: Case study for learned publishing	60
The past, present and future of publishing: Observations to celebrate ALPSP's 50th year	59
Beyond borders: Examining the role of national learned societies in the social sciences and humanities	49
Recycling Research Without (Self‐)Plagiarism: The Importance of Context and the Case of Conference Contributions	39
Obvious artificial intelligence‐generated anomalies in published journal articles: A call for enhanced editorial diligence	32
Public access policy in the United States: Impact of the Scholarly Publishing Roundtable	23
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Evolution and adoption of contributor role ontologies and taxonomies	23
Scaling up open access publishing through transformative agreements: Results from 2019 to 2022	22
‘Death of the Journal’: An editor's view	21
The stock characters in the editorial boards of journals run by predatory publishers	20
On building community in scholarly publishing: Modern ambitions and actions inspired by ancient wisdoms	20
Editorial actions taken to reduce publishing references from predatory sources: A case study	19
Tips for writing plain language summaries of medical journal publications	19
Systematic examination of post‐ and pre‐citation of Indian‐authored retracted papers	19
Collaborating for growth: Insights from Publisherspeak UK 2024, a scholarly publishing community gathering – part 1	18
Where are the carrots? A proposal to start crediting peer reviewers for their contribution to science	14
Assessing the Societal Impact of Academic Research With Artificial Intelligence (AI): A Scoping Review of Business School Scholarship as a ‘Force for Good’	14
Using online machine translation in international scholarly writing and publishing: A longitudinal case of a Chinese engineering scholar	14
Beyond PRISMA 2020 and AMSTAR 2: Further Actions Are Needed to Deal With Problematic Meta‐Analyses	12
Article processing charges for open access journal publishing: A review	12
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Scholarly journal publishing in Australia	11

Implementing a diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility strategy: Lessons learned at five scholarly communications organizations	11
Thanking our reviewers 2021	11
Where predatory and mainstream journals differ: A study of language and linguistics journals	11
Investigation of potential gender bias in the peer review system at Reproduction	11
Perceptions regarding open science appraised by editors of scholarly publications published in Spain	11
Chinese humanities scholars' reading of academic E‐books: A survey on reading strategies and tasks	11
A technology‐based, financially sustainable, quality improvement intervention in a medical journal for bilingualism from submission to publication	11
Perceptions on the prevalence and impact of predatory academic journals and conferences: A global survey of researchers	10
Scholarly Publications: Criteria, Types, and Recognition From the Researchers' Perspective	10
Small Is Sexy: Rethinking Article Length in the Age of AI	10
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Correction to “DeepGreen—A Data Hub for the Distribution of Scholarly Articles From Publishers to Open Access Repositories in Germany”	9
Family Medicine editors collaborate towards antiracist publishing	9
Unravelling Citation Rules: A Comparative Analysis of Referencing Instruction Patterns in Scopus‐Indexed Journals	9
University presses and societal challenges: Practical steps for change	8
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Analysing overlay journals: The state‐of‐the‐art in 2021 and possible perspectives	8
Moving Open Repositories out of the Blind Spot of Initiatives to Correct the Scholarly Record	8
Do you still need to make that trip?	8
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Lessons learned from an evolving DEI programme within a global publisher	7
Alternatives to English only in scholarly publishing: Emerging trends of language policies among non‐Anglophone journals?	7
Promotion and caution in research article abstracts: The use of positive, negative and hedge words across disciplines and rankings	7
Philosophers' perceptions of pay to publish and open access in Spain: Books versus journals, more than a financial dilemma	7
The ‘long and winding road’ for digital accessibility	6
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The rise of a mega‐journal in public health publishing	6
Research assistants: Scientific credit and recognized authorship	6
Initial insight into three modes of data sharing: Prevalence of primary reuse, data integration and dataset release in research articles	6
Long‐term outcomes of 2‐day training on planning and writing research on publication output of medical professionals: 11‐year cohort study	6
Are journal archiving and embargo policies impeding the success of India's open access policy?	6
Academic journals' usernames and the threat of fraudulent accounts on social media	6
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Purchase and publish: Early career researchers and open access publishing costs	6
Journals in Beall's list perform as a group less well than other open access journals indexed in Scopus but reveal large differences among publishers	6
Lessons learned from ORCID DE—A project‐driven initiative to promote author identification in Germany	6
Nurturing an ‘ethic of collaboration’: Dispatches from a case study on Jindal Global Law Review	6
From being disrupted to being a disruptor: How university presses are helping to drive positive change	6
Analysis of predatory emails in early career academia and attempts at prevention	6
An analysis of publishing studies journals: An insight into the structure of the field based on publications	6
Regional spillover effect of 2022 sanctions against Russia on scholarly publications	5
BioOne and SPIE: A reflection on the first 3 years of the nonprofit platform partnership	5
Rates of editor‐authored manuscripts among urology journals using blinded or non‐blinded review	5
Review of the Coalition for Diversity and Inclusion in Scholarly Communications' ‘Toolkits for Equity’	5
Three recommended inclusive language guidelines for scholarly publishing: Words matter	5
Editing a journal at the semiperiphery: Ambivalence of juniority and meaningfulness of publishing	5
Risks of abuse of large language models, like ChatGPT, in scientific publishing: Authorship, predatory publishing, and paper mills	5
‘Cracks’ in the scholarly communications system: Insights from a longitudinal international study of early career researchers	5
The importance of effective data sharing and reuse to funders and others supporting research	5
Questionnaires mentioned in academic research 1996–2019: Rapid increase but declining citation impact	5

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Authors publishing repeatedly in predatory journals: An analysis of Scopus articles	5