Tag: research integrity
Extensive updates of indexed journal list on Web of Science for research integrity assurance
Clarivate announced in March 2023 that over 50 journals have been delisted from the Web of Science Core Collection in their latest update. The delisted journals failed to meet their quality criteria during the selection review. In the current selection practice, journals are evaluated by 28 criteria, including 24 quality criteria designed to select for…
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Event Summary – Open Science and Open Access Publishing: Integrity and Innovations
The Open Science and Open Access Publishing: Integrity and Innovations event was a great success with around 150 researchers, students, editors, and librarians from countries across the Asia-Pacific region! Organised by HKU Libraries and supported by iGroup Asia Pacific, PLOS, and DOAJ, the event was held on 28 Oct 2022 at 2-4 pm. The speakers…
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How to Identify and Avoid Disinformation and Misinformation
Disinformation or misinformation is not a new phenomenon and they could be found anywhere in our daily lives. They may not only affect us in economical or social aspects, but also in academic studies and scientific research. First of all, let’s see the definitions of both “disinformation” and “misinformation”: According to Saoirse and Bahareh (2020),…
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