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Janne Pölönen @jpolonen.bsky.social · Jul 15

74.4% of the 21,886 WoS-indexed journals involve commercial professional publishers, 29% societies, and 27.8% research organisations as sole/co-publishers. Our paper co-authored with @zehrataskin.bsky.social, Emanuel Kulczycki & @mikaellaakso.bsky.social - now on QSS website: doi.org/10.1162/qss....

Mapping the publisher types and collaborations behind Web of Science indexed journals

Abstract. Although the organisational aspects of scholarly journals—such as the types of organisations responsible for publishing individual journals, whether independently or in collaboration—have si...

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bilimakademisi.bsky.social @bilimakademisi.bsky.social · Jul 9

Araştırma değerlendirme sistemlerinin yol açtığı yapısal sorunlar ve bilimsel bilginin üretiminde/dolaşımında süregelen merkez-çevre adaletsizlikleri ...

Zehra Taşkın'ın yazısı Sarkaç'ta. @zehrataskin.bsky.social

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Akademik yarış, yayın baskısı ve şaibeli dergiler: Bir sistem sorgulaması - Sarkaç

Akademide bilginin izini süren araştırmacı kimliği ile yalnızca yayın üretmeye odaklanan performansçı kimlik arasındaki sınırlar giderek bulanıklaşıyor.

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Janne Pölönen @jpolonen.bsky.social · Jun 30

Happy to announce the soft launch of DoLS - the Directory of Learned Societies, an open, growing database of learned societies and their journals worldwide, facilitating visibility, networking, and community-building!

Explore #DoLS website: www.tsv.fi/en/services/...

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Mark Huskisson @markhusk.bsky.social · Jun 11

This interesting new preprint on SocArXiv shows that "The landscape of academic journals is beyond the oligopoly: it is diverse and often grounded in public, academic-driven initiatives rather than market imperatives." osf.io/preprints/so...

Janne Pölönen @jpolonen.bsky.social · Jun 11

📢 Our new study challenges the prevailing narrative that a few commercial publishers dominate global scholarly publishing! Read the preprint: Beyond the oligopoly: Scholarly journal publishing landscapes in Latin America and Europe. doi.org/10.31235/osf...

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · Jun 11

"Our findings challenge the prevailing narrative that a few commercial publishers dominate global scholarly publishing. While prior analyses based on selective indexes reinforced the perception of an oligopoly [...], examining diverse national contexts reveals a more pluralistic reality."

Janne Pölönen @jpolonen.bsky.social · Jun 11

📢 Our new study challenges the prevailing narrative that a few commercial publishers dominate global scholarly publishing! Read the preprint: Beyond the oligopoly: Scholarly journal publishing landscapes in Latin America and Europe. doi.org/10.31235/osf...

OSF

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Janne Pölönen @jpolonen.bsky.social · Jun 11

📢 Our new study challenges the prevailing narrative that a few commercial publishers dominate global scholarly publishing! Read the preprint: Beyond the oligopoly: Scholarly journal publishing landscapes in Latin America and Europe. doi.org/10.31235/osf...

OSF

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Zehra Taşkın @zehrataskin.bsky.social · Apr 10

We keep talking about the problem of questionable publishing—but let’s not forget, the reason it exists is because there’s a market for it. As long as there are people willing to pay for shortcuts, someone will offer them.

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Zehra Taşkın @zehrataskin.bsky.social · Apr 10

I received two book chapter invitations on the same day. One gives a 5-day window from submission to publication. The other outlines a 2-year process with clear milestones: draft writing, reviews, revisions, and editing.
The difference speaks for itself.

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Janne Pölönen @jpolonen.bsky.social · Apr 9

Our paper "Learned societies in the academic landscape: challenges in identifying and categorizing organizations" was published today in Scientometrics: doi.org/10.1007/s111... Thank you Emanuel Kulczycki, @mikaellaakso.bsky.social and @zehrataskin.bsky.social for the great collaboration!

Learned societies in the academic landscape: challenges in identifying and categorizing organizations - Scientometrics

This study explores ways of identifying learned societies within the Research Organization Registry (ROR), a type of organization that so far lacks its own category within the registry. Despite their ...

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Zehra Taşkın @zehrataskin.bsky.social · Apr 8

1001 projemizde bir yıl boyunca birlikte çalışmak üzere bir doktora sonrası araştırmacı ve bir doktora öğrencisi arıyoruz. Burs bedelleri TÜBİTAK tarafından belirlenen en üst limitlere göre belirlendi. Elden ele yayarsanız, tanıdıklara iletirseniz seviniriz.

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Scholarly Communication @scholarlycommrg.bsky.social · Apr 7

We are continuing our series of internal seminars on Bernal's "Social Function of Science". It is an inspiring and strongly multidisciplinary approach to science. Simultaneous study of economics, politics and science is practised in many research in our Group

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Sinan Tankut Gülhan @sinantankutgulhan.com · Apr 7

Arkadaşlar, takipleşmeyi bırakıp bir şeyler yazsanız burası daha ilginç bir yer olabilir.

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Zehra Taşkın @zehrataskin.bsky.social · Apr 6

Blog yazdım. Başka türlü bir şey oldu. İki öksürük krizi arasında. Gelişine.

Başka türlü bir şey: www.zehrataskin.com/index.php/20...

“Başka türlü bir şey” – Zehra Taşkın

www.zehrataskin.com

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Zehra Taşkın @zehrataskin.bsky.social · Apr 6

Twitlerimizi escort hesapları, skitlerimizi mavigökler trend topic hesapları beğeniyor en ilk.

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Zehra Taşkın @zehrataskin.bsky.social · Apr 6

Bir geri takip uğruna ya rab, ne hızlı etkileşimler veriliyor.

Yapman guzum.

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Zehra Taşkın @zehrataskin.bsky.social · Apr 6

Blog yazdım. Başka türlü bir şey oldu. İki öksürük krizi arasında. Gelişine.

Başka türlü bir şey: www.zehrataskin.com/index.php/20...

“Başka türlü bir şey” – Zehra Taşkın

www.zehrataskin.com

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Zehra Taşkın @zehrataskin.bsky.social · Apr 4

Haha bence de. Artık internet ortamında dil engeli olmaması çok hoş.

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Zehra Taşkın @zehrataskin.bsky.social · Apr 4

If the local developments in my country lead to frequent posts, feel free to unfollow.
For academic updates, I’ll stick to LinkedIn :=)

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Zehra Taşkın @zehrataskin.bsky.social · Apr 4

I joined Bluesky 2 years ago to share my works with international colleagues. I used to post in Turkish on Twitter, mainly about politics and current events.
But after Elon Musk’s interventions, I’ve decided to leave X. So, I’ll now be posting in both English and Turkish here +

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Scholarly Communication @scholarlycommrg.bsky.social · Feb 7

Our Group is on Bluesky now!

Interested in research on: scholarly communication, higher education, bibliometrics or geopolitics of science? Follow us!

Some scholars from SCRG are already here (@kszadkowski.bsky.social @zehrataskin.bsky.social @franekkra.bsky.social )

Our website: sc.amu.edu.pl

Scholarly Communication Research Group | Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań

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Kaan Öztürk @mkozturk.com · Feb 11

@zehrataskin.bsky.social hocadan:
"“Akademisyenlik iş değildir. Bir tutkudur.” Bu tutku sebebiyle sizden beklenenlerse insanüstü bir özveriyle, ağır iş yükünden şikayet etmeden, düşük maaşla ve güvencesiz pozisyonlarda çalışmaya devam etmenizdir."
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Akademik suistimalin 50 tonu – Zehra Taşkın

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Zehra Taşkın @zehrataskin.bsky.social · Jan 10

Published version available: asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Janne Pölönen @jpolonen.bsky.social · Nov 24

74% of 21,886 WoS-indexed journals involve professional publishers, 29% learned societies, and 28% research organisations as publishers or collaborators. Check out our new preprint co-authored with @zehrataskin.bsky.social, Emanuel Kulczycki and @mikaellaakso.bsky.social: doi.org/10.31235/osf...

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Zehra Taşkın @zehrataskin.bsky.social · Nov 21

It's raining preprints, hallelujah 🎶

Here is my latest preprint (review article) >> Sustaining the ‘frozen footprints’ of scholarly communication through open citations

osf.io/preprints/so...

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