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ISSN 2304-6775 · MDPI AG · 602 articles in the index
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Institutional Capacity and Editorial Autonomy in International Journal Indexing: Evidence from University Journals in Honduras
International indexing remains a significant challenge for university journals, particularly in low- and middle-income countries, where editorial teams often operate with limited institutional support. This study investigated whether meeting international indexing standards depends solely on…
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Study on Policies Governing the Use of Artificial Intelligence-Generated Content in Academic Writing—A Case Study of Leading Journals Under “Phase II of Excellence Action Plan of China STM Journals”
To address the academic integrity challenges arising from artificial intelligence technologies, this study has systematically investigated the policies governing the use of artificial intelligence-generated content (AIGC) in academic writing, specifically, those implemented by leading journals…
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The Emergence of Generative AI in Scholarly Communication Through Lexical Classification, Disciplinary Diffusion, and Citation-Based Recognition
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has gained prominence in scholarly communication, yet its lexical classification, disciplinary diffusion, semantic organization, and association with citation-based recognition remain understudied. This study analyzes 487,753 research and review articles…
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LLM-Generated Visual Summaries of Cochrane Plain-Language Summaries: A Pilot Expert-Rated Study and Implications for Research Communication
Background: Plain-language summaries (PLSs) improve accessibility of medical research for patients but remain predominantly text-based. Large language models (LLMs) can now generate images from text. We carried out the present exploratory study to evaluate whether LLMs can generate images that…
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Design and Construction of an Ontology Model for Semantic Representation of Scientometric Indicators
This paper proposes a novel ontology, called SciOnt, for representing scientometric indicators. Scientometrics is the field that studies the quantitative aspects of science and scientific phenomena. Scientometric indicators are used to evaluate scientific publications and research. However, many…
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East, West, or Neither? Ancestry Categories in Scholarly Publishing Surveys
In 2022, a coalition of 52 scholarly publishers representing more than 15,000 journals endorsed a standardised questionnaire on ethnic origins, ancestry, and race. This Opinion tests whether that questionnaire’s ancestry item follows the geographic rationale its own designers cite for it, using a…
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Publication Trends and Overlapping Subject-Area Classifications in Scopus: Evidence from Business, Management and Accounting
Large bibliographic databases require careful interpretation because publication trends and subject-area counts are shaped by database coverage, document-type selection, and classification practices. This study examines longitudinal changes in articles and reviews indexed in Scopus between 2010 and…
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COVID-19-Related Publications and Author-Level H-Index Change Among Highly Productive Peruvian Health Researchers: A Cross-Sectional Bibliometric Study Using OpenAlex
COVID-19-related research redistributed citations toward pandemic topics, but the author-level contribution of this redistribution to individual h-index values remains insufficiently documented in lower-volume national research systems. This cross-sectional bibliometric study used OpenAlex metadata…
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Large Language Models in Peer Review: Decision Alignment, Review-Text Characteristics, and Human–AI Aggregation at ICLR 2025
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly employed in scholarly peer review, yet their suitability as autonomous evaluators remains uncertain. Using the ICLR 2025 review process, this study compares 2401 human reviews with 7203 reviews produced in separate, context-isolated API runs using…
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Governing Scientific Knowledge Through Editorial Transparency: An Exploratory Documentary Assessment of Open Science Practices in Food Science Journals from Peru and Mexico
Contemporary scientific publishing plays an increasingly important role in the accessibility, circulation, and governance of scientific knowledge within the context of open science and growing demands for editorial transparency. Despite the expansion of scientific production in emerging academic…
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Technological Governance for Diamond Open Access: A Modular Framework for Metadata Excellence and Scholarly Interoperability in University Journals
Diamond Open Access journals face increasing challenges in ensuring metadata quality, interoperability, persistent identification, digital preservation, and international visibility while operating with limited financial and technological resources. Although Open Journal Systems (OJS) provides a…
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Trust, Acceptance, and Service Outcomes of AI-Augmented Academic Library Research Support Services in Thailand
Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly transforming scholarly communication by changing how researchers discover, organize, evaluate, and communicate academic knowledge. Academic libraries are consequently expanding AI-supported research services; however, limited empirical evidence exists…
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Matching Artificial Intelligence Methods to Research Problems in Medical Informatics
Artificial intelligence is reshaping scientific research, yet its contribution may be associated with whether methods are matched to the types of research problems. This study investigates this question in medical informatics using 40,107 articles published during 2000–2024. Large language models…
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Structural Evolution of the Ecuadorian Scopus-Indexed Journal Ecosystem During 2016–2025
This study analyzed the structural evolution of the Ecuadorian publishing ecosystem indexed in Scopus during the period 2016–2025 using indicators of scientific production, bibliometric impact, quartile positioning, citation concentration, editorial persistence, and women’s participation…
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A Level-Based Master Plan for Strengthening Research Projects
This paper proposes a level-based scientific maturation master plan (SMMP) for strengthening research projects prior to manuscript submission. A weak manuscript is often not simply a weak text but an immature project that has been translated too early into publication form. Contemporary research…
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Thus We Are Agreed! A Systematic Mapping Review of Adversarial Collaborations in Science
In a time where the methods of science are frequently called into question, open science practices are gaining increased importance. A particularly cooperative form of transparent science is the approach of adversarial collaboration (AC), where research groups with different explanations of the…
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From Regulation to Perceived Strategic Utility: A Research Monitoring System Based on the Elsevier Pure API at UCSM
This article describes the design, development, and user acceptance evaluation of the Monitor CRIS UCSM, a research monitoring system (RMS) built on the Elsevier Pure REST API for the Universidad Católica de Santa María (UCSM), Arequipa, Peru. The study addresses two research questions: (RQ1) can…
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Citation of Scientific Evidence from Video Description and Its Association with Attention and Impact
This study investigates how YouTube content producers incorporate scientific evidence into their videos. The purpose is to understand which types of knowledge sources most influence science-related video production and how alternative communication channels shape the visibility of research. A…
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Cross-Level Inference Errors in Scientific Interpretation—From Ecological Correlation to the Control of Inference and Communication Levels
Cross-level inference errors constitute a specific source of misleading scientific interpretation. They arise when the meaning assigned to a finding is transferred from one level of analysis to another without sufficient methodological justification. The conceptual aim of this article is to explain…
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Sci-Tech Journals Serving Scientific and Technological Innovation in the Context of the “Planning–Communication–Empowerment” Path
Currently, the “Planning–Dissemination–Empowerment” approach has become a widely adopted practice paradigm for scientific journals to serve industrial scientific and technological innovation. Nevertheless, how to achieve the effective transformation from knowledge production to scientific and…