2021/01/07 by Francisco Segado‐Boj, Segado-Boj, Francisco, Juan Martín Quevedo +3
Arts and Humanities · Decision Sciences · Psychology · #Academic Writing and Publishing #Digital Libraries (cs.DL) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Information Retrieval (cs.IR) #Psychology Research and Bibliometrics #scientometrics and bibliometrics research
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2101.02488
openalex publication_date 2021/01/07 · openalex created_date 2022/07/25 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
This paper aims to gain a better understanding of the perspectives of\ncontributors to Spanish academic journals regarding open access, open peer\nreview, and altmetrics. It also explores how age, gender, professional\nexperience, career history, and perception and use of social media influence\nauthors opinions toward these developments in scholarly publishing. A sample of\ncontributors (n-1254) to Spanish academic journals was invited to participate\nin a survey about the aforementioned topics. The response rate was 24 per cent\n(n-295). Contributors to Spanish scholarly journals hold a favourable opinion\nof open access but were more cautious about open peer review and altmetrics.\nYounger and female scholars were more reluctant to accept open peer review\npractices. A positive attitude toward social networks did not necessarily\ntranslate into enthusiasm for emerging trends in scholarly publishing. Despite\nthis, ResearchGate users were more aware of altmetrics.\n