Digital Object Identifier Research Articles

Google dataset search and DOI for data in the ESA space science archives

Reproducibility is at the core of science. For this reason, a common practice for authors is to provide links to the data used in their manuscripts upon submission to peer-reviewed journals. In space science, reference to archives’ websites of major data providers like space agencies are still accepted by most journals. However, even these websites are not persistent links and will eventually not be accepted once journals require full compliance with the FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) data principles. On the contrary, Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) associated to data could provide persistent links. But so far, the publishing industry is systematically minting DOIs related to their articles or books without requiring DOIs for the data used in their publications. Furthermore, DOIs related to data would not only link refereed publications to the data location. It could also enable a more precise attribution to the data producers and publishers while providing the capability to eventually trace their use. These latter points require that journals eventually request or even enforce the use of these DOIs. For data producers, proper attribution and usage are important in the context of securing research grants or extension of projects. Additionally, structured metadata included in the DOI landing pages offer the possibility for datasets to be discoverable by the new Google Dataset Search (GDS) engine, available since January 2020. This paper describes the on-going activities at the European Space Agency (ESA) to mint DOIs for datasets served across the space science archives, and how a subset of these DOIs are already discoverable by GDS.

Introducing article numbering to Immuno-Oncology and Technology

Within the publishing industry, article numbering has emerged as an easy and efficient way to cite journal articles. Article numbering has already been successfully rolled out to Elseviers multidisciplinary open access journal Heliyon, as well as more than 200 other journals, and has been well received by the academic community. Based on that positive feedback, we are now pleased to introduce article numbering to Immuno-Oncology and Technology. A unique article number is an abbreviated form of an articles DOI - digital object identifier. Citing an article with an article number is very simple: the article number is used instead of the page range in the citation. 2. Van der Geer J, Hanraads JAJ, Lupton RA. The art of writing a scientific article. Heliyon. 2018;19:100205. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2018.100205. While journal volumes and issue numbers will remain in place, article numbering will now play the key role in identifying specific articles. The introduction of article numbers brings several benefits for the journal and its readers and authors. •More flexible reading: Article content can be optimized based on the device used to access it, supporting reading on-the-move, without needing to know how many traditional print pages the article takes up.•Increased options for grouping related content: In online collections and Special Issues, articles can now be placed in any order, helping readers to identify papers relevant to their research interests faster.•Faster publication: With article numbers, the version of record of the article is online and citable as soon as the proof corrections have been incorporated, ensuring readers have access to the latest research faster. We are delighted that Immuno-Oncology and Technologys readers and authors will now enjoy these benefits.

The Expanded Use of DOI and Content Citation Granularity

CSE 2020 Virtual Annual Meeting MODERATOR: Nancy R Gough Publishing Consultant BioSeredipity, LLC Elkridge, Maryland SPEAKERS: Midori Baer Director Publishing Operations PLOS Washington, DC Stacy Konkiel Director Research Relations Almetrics & Dimensions, Digital Science Minneapolis, Minnesota Daniella Lowenberg Dryad Product Manager & Make Data Count Lead California Digital Library San Francisco, California REPORTER: Beverly Lindeen Senior Managing Editor Allen Press, Inc. Lawrence, Kansas It is pretty well known that DOIs (digital object identifiers) are used for articles that are published in an online format. However, they are also necessary for the various parts of an article, such as preprints, figures, tables, databases, data, methods, etc. Nancy Gough moderated this session looking at how DOIs for these items is used by publishers and indexing services. In her presentation entitled “Expanded Use of DOIs at PLOS,” Midori Baer, Director Publishing Operations at PLOS, reviewed the ways in which PLOS uses DOIs as part of their larger organizational mission of “empowering researchers to accelerate progress in science and medicine by leading a transformation in research communication.” The continuum of research is important, as is the abilityof the authors to tell the stories of their science. Research needs to be discoverable. Article assets (supplementary information and datasets, tables, figures, peer-review reports, etc.) are assigned DOIs and are registered as component DOIs with Crossref. A link to the DOI appears in both the html and PDF views of all the article assets. There are currently limitations. On the PLOS website, it would be beneficial to […]

Journal of Environmental Biology: Current credibility and acceptance

Open Access of research papers was made available 2) R & D Division: In 2008, Journal established its own Research & Development (R & D) division under the guidance of a consultant and scientists to scrutinize all submitted manuscripts for unethical practices and recommend ways to improve quality and scientific merit The contributions of the reviewers are appropriately acknowledged by publishing their names in the Reviewer's Panel of the Journal 3) Digital Object Identifier: Journal took the membership of Crossref in 2016, so as to allot the DOI number to each paper published in the Journal of Environmental Biology 4) JEB International Awards: In 2018, the Journal introduced "JEB - International Award (IA)" for the best paper published in a calendar year to recognize and appreciate the outstanding research paper published in the Journal Scientific Leadership: In September 2020, the National Academy of Agricultural Research Management (NAARM), Hyderabad organized an online training program and the JEB editor was invited as an expert in a panel discussion on "Science of Writing Good Research Papers"

A Beginner's Guide to Conducting Reproducible Research

A Beginner's Guide to Conducting Reproducible Research

Quantifying the contributions technicians make to research

AbstractTechnicians play a highly significant, but often invisible, role in research. Despite growing recognition of the importance of technicians, through initiatives such as the Technician’s Commitment, their contribution is inconsistently recognized across research groups, between disciplines, and within institutions. This article presents a simple framework, based on existing standards that can be easily integrated into common research workflows to capture technician contributions. By utilizing ORCID identifiers, Digital Object Identifiers, and the CRediT contributor role taxonomy, technician contribution can be quantified, recognized, and valuable additional data can be created for the planning and management of future research. Presented in the context of the Australasian higher education system, the framework is illustrated with a Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics focus but is applicable across all disciplines.

Comparison of academic book impact from a disciplinary perspective: an analysis of citations and altmetric indicators

Academic books are an important carrier of knowledge for scientific communication. This study aims to gain an improved understanding of academic books by jointly analyzing the altmetric and citation indicators. We explore the impact of academic books among six fields. The data set includes 666,527 records of the Book Citation Index from Web of Science in 2013–2017. Results reveal as follows. (1) The coverage of digital object identifiers and altmetric values on books was relatively low. (2) The impact of books shows evident disciplinary differences in the citation and altmetric indicators. Clinical, Pre-Clinical and Health books had the highest altmetric impact but the lowest citation impact. However, Physical Sciences books showed the opposite traits. Although books are the preferred publication format of the fields of Arts and Humanities; and Social Sciences, the performance of the book impact based on the citation and altmetric indicators was not apparent among six fields. Overall, Social Sciences have relatively better performance than Arts and Humanities. (3) The citation frequency of early publications is significantly higher than that of recent publications, whereas the altmetric attention score presented a growth trend and the cumulative effect is not evident. The clear but weak correlations between altmetric indicators and citations of books were also found. (4) The hierarchical cluster analysis of fields based on the citation and altmetric indicators revealed that the fields of Clinical, Pre-Clinical and Health; and Life Sciences showed high internal homogeneity. However, the fields of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities are heterogeneous. This study is a constructive attempt to show the macroscopic traits of academic books. Altmetric indexes were involved in multidisciplinary comparison analysis to enhance the understanding of books.

Persistent Identifiers and the Next Generation of Legal Scholarship

The world of scholarly communications has seen distinct growth regarding the use of persistent identifiers in the effort to preserve, disseminate, analyze, and help locate academic content. A persistent identifier is a unique string of letters, numbers, and/or symbols associated with digital content that will never change over time. Persistent identifiers exist in different forms and for different functions, and this Article will discuss the importance and relevance to legal scholarship of two of the most pervasive persistent identifiers in scholarly communications - the digital object identifier (DOI) and the ORCID identifier (ORCID iD). The use of persistent identifiers in academic publishing has become so pervasive that robust, data-driven services have been developed and integrated into the publication process that rely on and leverage this information standard. Publishers of legal scholarship and other legal materials have not widely adopted persistent identifiers, and, as a result, the legal discipline cannot enjoy the variety of benefits offered by this system. In addition, legal scholarship will be left out of future developments and innovations that rely on persistent identifiers to measure impact and other bibliometrics of scholarship. Obtaining disciplinary adoption of persistent identifiers is necessary, prudent, and feasible. This Article will identify existing barriers regarding the implementation of persistent identifiers among publishers of legal scholarship, as well as provide an anecdotal example of creating a sustainable workflow between the law library and student-run law journals. This Article concludes with a call to action for all stakeholders in legal publishing to adopt persistent identifiers and usher in a new generation for legal scholarship and other legal materials.

Article-Level Metrics

In the era of digitization and Open Access, article-level metrics are increasingly employed to distinguish influential research works and adjust research management strategies. Tagging individual articles with digital object identifiers allows exposing them to numerous channels of scholarly communication and quantifying related activities. The aim of this article was to overview currently available article-level metrics and highlight their advantages and limitations. Article views and downloads, citations, and social media metrics are increasingly employed by publishers to move away from the dominance and inappropriate use of journal metrics. Quantitative article metrics are complementary to one another and often require qualitative expert evaluations. Expert evaluations may help to avoid manipulations with indiscriminate social media activities that artificially boost altmetrics. Values of article metrics should be interpreted in view of confounders such as patterns of citation and social media activities across countries and academic disciplines.

Adopting ORCID as a unique identifier will benefit all involved in scholarly communication

ORCID, the Open Researcher and Contributor ID, is a non- profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. Together with other persistent identifiers for scholarly works such as digital object identifiers (DOIs) and identifiers for organizations, ORCID makes research more discoverable. It helps ensure that one's grants, publications and outputs are correctly attributed. It helps the research community not just in aggregating publications, but in every stage of research, viz. publishing, reviewing, profiling, metrics, accessing and archiving. Funding agencies in Austria, Australia, Denmark, Portugal, Sweden and the UK, and the world's leading scholarly publishers and associations have integrated their systems with ORCID registry. Among the BRICS countries, China and South Africa are adopting ORCID avidly. India is yet to make a beginning. If research councils and funding agencies in India require researchers to adopt ORCID and link ORCID iDs to funding as well as tracking performance, it will help them keep track of the workflow. Journal editors can also keep track of contributions made by different authors and work assigned to different reviewers through their ORCID iDs.

Covid-19 and the Role of Halal Food

This study aims to determine the map of the development of research on the halal food industry's theme in the COVID-19 pandemic published by indexed journals. The study was conducted in August 2020. The analysis focused on the trends of the topics, keywords, authors and journals. The data analyzed were more than 50 digital object identifier equipped papers. The object of the study is a published journal published from 2019 to 2020. The data is then processed and analyzed using the VOSviewer application program to determine the bibliometric mapping of the development of COVID-19 research and the role of halal food. The results showed that the number of articles discussing the theme of halal food has been quite large in the last two years. Bibliometric visualization shows that the map of the development of COVID-19 research is divided into 4 clusters. Cluster 1 consists of 12 topics, cluster 2 consists of 12 topics, cluster 3 consists of 8 topics, and cluster 4 consists of 8 topics. This study's findings are that there is special attention to the halal industry's development, mostly halal food, to mitigate the prolonged health crisis's impact.This study provides an overview of trends in the most popular topics, keywords, journals and authors in articles on halal food, thus providing information for researchers focused on research in the field of halal food. In the end, this theme has the potential to continue to be developed.

Deciding to post a manuscript preprint

Deciding to post a manuscript preprint

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Malaysian Journal of Pharmacy (MJP) since its launch in 2001, upholds the essence of knowledge and experience dissemination of regional pharmaceutical related research and sciences. With Dr Yew Su Fong as the founding Editor in Chief, a few journal issues were published and in year 2008 the torch was passed on to the successor, Professor Dr Mohd Baidi Bahari. Under the helm of Prof Baidi, valuable research findings by respective hospitals in Malaysia were published, some disseminated in the form of conference proceeding and abstract. Gradually, MJP has become a keystone to showcase the research findings of fellow pharmacists especially in the hospital setting which provide publications that are both informative and impactful, highlighting matters that of high value to the profession. In recent years, the journal’s management and structure grow and improve, along with its appointment of the journal’s immediate past Editor in Chief, Associate Professor Dr Asrul Asrul Akmal Shafie that strengthened the workflow of the journal. In term of operation, the way forward for MJP is to keep abreast with the latest trend and technology advancement. Web-based automated submission system, digital object identifier (DOI), citation tracking are the crucial features to be implemented o encourage article submission to MJP. Given a chance to lead MJP, we would like to take a moment to introduce the revamped structure of our editorial board. The newly assembled board comprises of registered pharmacist from different disciplines of pharmacy whom either a well cited researcher or highly experienced practising pharmacist. To name a few, Professor Habibah A Wahab, Dean of School of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), Professor Mohd Cairul Iqbal Mohd Amin, Deputy Director of Ministry of Higher of Education, Professor Wong Ting Wui and Associate Professor Dr Asrul Asrul Akmal Shafie who are among the high cited researchers in their research field. Advisors are included in the structure of our editorial board who are entrusted to advise the Board on strategic planning and progress of the journal. Advisors included in the team include Emeritus Professor Yuen Kah Hay and Emeritus, Professor Dr Paraidathathu Thomas, former Editor in Chief Professor Dr Mohd Baidi Bahari, international renown researcher Dr Sheng Qi and Associate Professor Alberto Berardi. This local and international advisory team is in the interest of transparency, good governance and render the decision-making process to independent scrutiny. Besides, the Board serves on the principle of autonomy and impartiality, to ensure the article published in this MJP is of high quality and non- bias. As far as the journal is concerned, the editorial board of MJP have the right to reject manuscript that is deemed not appropriate or unqualified without influence, fear, or favour. MJP is a peer-reviewed publication with an aim to publish content covers all aspects of pharmacist in Malaysia and beyond. It solicits manuscripts across different areas as long as it brings benefit to the growth of pharmacy profession as a whole. The scope of the journal includes research performed clinically, community, lab-based, social administrative based, Pharmacy Education as well as industrial related. Relevant contents from academicians, pharmacy student (final year projects), pharmaceutical industrial research, as well as the mandatory research by provisionally registered pharmacy (PRP) are also welcome. Special Issue may also be considered for current hot topic. We envisage that MJP will serve as a platform to educate, motivate and help the author as well as readers to better serve as a pharmacist.

The Taxon Hypothesis Paradigm-On the Unambiguous Detection and Communication of Taxa.

Here, we describe the taxon hypothesis (TH) paradigm, which covers the construction, identification, and communication of taxa as datasets. Defining taxa as datasets of individuals and their traits will make taxon identification and most importantly communication of taxa precise and reproducible. This will allow datasets with standardized and atomized traits to be used digitally in identification pipelines and communicated through persistent identifiers. Such datasets are particularly useful in the context of formally undescribed or even physically undiscovered species if data such as sequences from samples of environmental DNA (eDNA) are available. Implementing the TH paradigm will to some extent remove the impediment to hastily discover and formally describe all extant species in that the TH paradigm allows discovery and communication of new species and other taxa also in the absence of formal descriptions. The TH datasets can be connected to a taxonomic backbone providing access to the vast information associated with the tree of life. In parallel to the description of the TH paradigm, we demonstrate how it is implemented in the UNITE digital taxon communication system. UNITE TH datasets include rich data on individuals and their rDNA ITS sequences. These datasets are equipped with digital object identifiers (DOI) that serve to fix their identity in our communication. All datasets are also connected to a GBIF taxonomic backbone. Researchers processing their eDNA samples using UNITE datasets will, thus, be able to publish their findings as taxon occurrences in the GBIF data portal. UNITE species hypothesis (species level THs) datasets are increasingly utilized in taxon identification pipelines and even formally undescribed species can be identified and communicated by using UNITE. The TH paradigm seeks to achieve unambiguous, unique, and traceable communication of taxa and their properties at any level of the tree of life. It offers a rapid way to discover and communicate undescribed species in identification pipelines and data portals before they are lost to the sixth mass extinction.

Nothing is permanent but change itself

After just over two years of assuming the challenge to manage our journal, we have continue changing, bit by bit, in order to fulfil our goals.This is going to be the first number with Digital Object Identifier (DOI) system, we planned to do this for a long time but will never get the time to implement it, but, finally, SciELO came to the rescue and, even though DOI were mandatory since 2015, now it has decided to ask their journals to fulfil this criteria (1). DOI is essential to increase visibility and interoperability ofall journals listed in SciELO and now is mandatory. We are starting with all our articles for this year and later will continue with prior years.

Liberating the Richness of Facts implicit in taxonomic Publication: The Plazi Workflow

The growing corpus of hundreds of millions of pages of taxonomic literature reporting research results based on specimens is very rich in facts. In order to make them reusable, Plazi, Pensoft and Zenodo are building and maintaining the Biodiversity Literature Repository which includes a workflow to discover, describe, store, in order to making these facts open access, findable, accesible, interoperable and reusable (FAIR). Currently, 43,000 articles have 406,000 material citations, and around 50% of annually new described species are made accessible and immediately reused by the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). All the images are deposited at the Biodiversity Literature Repository (BLR), as well as the taxonomic treatments. For each of these deposits enriched metadata is added and a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) is minted. Through this process, Plazi is the single largest data set provider to GBIF and continues to provide ca. 45,000 unique taxonomic names at GBIF. The workflow is optimized for born digital portable data format (PDF) based publications, but other formats can also be ingested, including TaxPub, a taxonomy specific version of the Journal Article Tag Suit (JATS) XML. After ingestion, the PDF is readily converted to an open-access, proprietary format called Image Markup File (IMF). IMF is a compressed file format that consists of the enhanced information contained in the PDF, with figures and tables properly extracted. The IMFs are then housed at TreatmentBank, with associated exported files, including DwC-A for each parent article and their respective taxonomic treatments, XMLs of treatments and GBIF datasets of their parent articles. Taxonomic treatments, in addition to figures and the original PDFs, are also deposited on Zenodo, where a DOI is minted if none is already available. These Zenodo deposits include in the metadata links back to the different data and file formats, including the treatments XMLs, maintaining the system connected and up-to-date. Third-party players, like GBIF, Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI), Ocellus, OpenBiodiv and Synospecies are constantly fed by system hookups, which guarantees data consistency after further edits. The PDF-IMF conversion and data enhancement is possible due to Plazi’s open-source software called GoldenGate Imagine. Ingested XMLs, that are validated against the TaxPub scheme, follow a similar path into the system and the many third-party applications. This operation is supported by the Arcadia Fund as well by service contracts from publishers to disseminate their data. In addition, the workflow has been contributing treatments, images from numerous publications relevant to understanding the virus spillover as part of the CETAF COVID19 task force. In this lecture this workflow is described and explained, including the associated infrastructure and its ongoing changes and upcoming steps of development.

Discovering the Platypus: From its scientific description to its DOI

The first description and illustration of the duck-billed platypus appeared in the scientific literature in 1799. Since its international debut, the platypus has fascinated the scientific community. The past 200 years of scholarly literature is peppered with journal articles containing taxonomic revisions and details of the bizarre biology and behaviour of this paradoxical species. Yet, despite the fact that much of this historic literature is now accessible online, it is almost impossible to find. This is because, unlike contemporary scientific publications, much of the digitised historical literature lacks article-level citation data and digital object identifiers (DOIs). This paper will detail the work the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is undertaking to bring the world’s historic literature into the modern linked network of scholarly research. It will present three case studies – three “lost” platypus articles from three very different publications – to demonstrate how the retrospective registration of DOIs is critical to making legacy literature discoverable, citable and trackable. This paper will also discuss the responsibility and accountability that comes with assigning DOIs, including best practice for out-of-copyright and orphaned content, and the issues that arise when the definitive (DOI’d) versions of public domain journal articles are locked behind paywalls.

Preliminary evidence that letters to the editor are indexed inconsistently in PubMed and in exercise science and physical therapy journals: Implications and resolutions

Key points Letters to the editor are important to science because they are a form of post‐publication review. Examination of 3,203 letters published in exercise science and physical therapy journals revealed letters are indexed inconsistently. Issues exist with letter titles, letter authorship, and letter digital object identifiers (DOIs) and PubMed identifiers (PMIDs). Implications are that some letters are difficult to discover and cite, and some letter writers are not recognized for their intellectual contributions. Resolutions include indexing letters in PubMed under the “letter” [pt] search term and indexing each letter with the author's name, a distinct but consistently formatted title, and a unique DOI and PMID.

Early scientific response to COVID-19 epidemic: a scientometric perspective

BackgroundThe recent COVID-19 epidemic is showing how the response of the scientific literature is fundamental in the first days following the onset of a new epidemic. Quantifying which studies have a greatest impact can help researchers and policymakers in controlling the epidemic. The aim of this study is to describe the early scientific production in response to the COVID-19 epidemic through a scientometric analysis.MethodsThe study consisted of: 1) review of the scientific literature produced in the 30 days since the first paper related to COVID-19 has been published on Pubmed; 2) Identification of papers' Digital Object Identifiers (DOI) and analysis of related metrics with the construction of a 'Computed Impact Score' (CIS) that represents a unifying score over heterogeneous bibliometric indicators. The CIS takes into account all the bibliometric indicators both traditional (i.e. counting of citations) and alternative (i.e. altmetrics). In this study we use the altmetrics provided by Plum Analytics (PlumX). All bibliometric indicators for the selected papers have been collected by using their corresponding DOIs as the key for querying Scopus API, which integrates PlumX. On top of those indicators we compute the CIS. The papers with higher CIS are discussed and presented.Results239 papers have been included in the study. A threshold for CIS of t = 1.04 (i.e.95% quantile) allowed us to record 8 papers as potentially impactful. The 8 papers are: 6 case reports, 1 methodological study, 1 editorial. First authors come from China (n = 6), USA (n = 1) and Germany (n = 1). The main topics are: case/s description (n = 5), outbreak investigation (n = 2) and 1 genomic study.ConclusionsThe early response of the scientific literature during an epidemic does not follow a pre-established pattern. Tracing the traditional and non-traditional metrics measures of papers can help to understand and evaluate the impact of literature on the scientific community and general population.Key messages The dynamic of the scientific community represents an important aspect of the early response to the onset of a new epidemic, which must be studied also to increase systems’ preparedness.In a connected digital world, tracing metrics measures of scientific papers can identify those with the greatest impact and help professionals to correctly inform the population.

Building an Open Resources Repository for COVID-19 Research

The COVID-19 outbreak is a global pandemic declared by the World Health Organization, with rapidly increasing cases in most countries. A wide range of research is urgently needed for understanding the COVID-19 pandemic, such as transmissibility, geographic spreading, risk factors for infections, and economic impacts. Reliable data archive and sharing are essential to jump-start innovative research to combat COVID-19. This research is a collaborative and innovative effort in building such an archive, including the collection of various data resources relevant to COVID-19 research, such as daily cases, social media, population mobility, health facilities, climate, socioeconomic data, research articles, policy and regulation, and global news. Due to the heterogeneity between data sources, our effort also includes processing and integrating different datasets based on GIS (Geographic Information System) base maps to make them relatable and comparable. To keep the data files permanent, we published all open data to the Harvard Dataverse (https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/2019ncov), an online data management and sharing platform with a permanent Digital Object Identifier number for each dataset. Finally, preliminary studies are conducted based on the shared COVID-19 datasets and revealed different spatial transmission patterns among mainland China, Italy, and the United States.