Journal of Biology has addressed this paradox of the so-called general journal by publishing short commentaries, which it has called minireviews, with two functions.
And unless the researcher has opted to publish in an open-access format, the work might not be available online either for six months or more, the standard embargo for traditional journals, including so-called society journals published by associations like the National Academy of Sciences.
WTF? ("What's the fashion?"), the so-called "Lifestyle journal with the big mojo".
Kenya's Commission for University Education has issued stringent new guidelines for the appointment and promotion of academic staff in a system that gives heavy emphasis to publication in reputable, peer-reviewed journals and discourages publication in so-called predatory journals.
The so-called top journals value novelty and unexpected findings, but other journals may be more interested in careful, extensive analyses of critical ( e.g., biological) processes.
The program will also cover up to half the amount charged by so-called hybrid journals, which post a portion of their content online immediately upon publication.
An indigenous publishing industry was emerging unsteadily from the darkness and oppression of Soviet totalitarianism; most novels were being published in cultural magazines such as Novy Mir and Znamya - the so-called thick journals.
When in 1987, "Druzhba Narodov," or "Friendship of the Peoples," one of the Soviet Union's so-called "thick journals," published "Children of the Arbat," the reaction inside and outside the the nation was immediate and remarkable.
But if they follow this strategy for their own personal reasons, does this make them less exceptional in their actual research and so should they be penalised by the system for not daring/caring enough/bothering to aspire to the so-called "glamour" journals?
Signatories to the letter, including two Nobel laureates, Ben Feringa and Arieh Warshel, say the ban on so-called hybrid journals envisaged by Plan-S is "a big problem, especially for chemistry", as it would prevent scientists from publishing in journals that are important for their career progression.
But a world of "dark sharing" – so-called because journals lose sight of a paper as soon as someone downloads it – emerged alongside the internet, as researchers eager to share their work privately did so, and interested readers helped spread free copies of papers by way of DropBox and Pdf files.
