International Open Access Journal Research Articles

A Novel Quality Evaluation Using a Smart Unique Language of Interaction Data Between Industry 5.0 and Society 5.0

A newly proposed technique is presented in order to evaluate the quality content of an open access paper in international open access journals. The method was carried out with a unique smart language of interacting data between Industry 5.0 and Society 5.0 online system via the insert of the following three numbers of Viewers, Likes, and Commends, respectively. Unlike h index that involved numbers of citations, this novel manner may open a new way to a wide insight in detecting the quality content of an open access paper worldwide. According to the tests of two different data extracted from Prof. Elim’s articles published in Kompasiana platform Blog, the quality analysis for each paper is reasonable and touching the core level of each investigated article. We therefore suggest that this piece of research work can be applied to study many other open access articles in different journals.

Fifteen years of The Independent Journal of Teaching and Learning: A review and bibliometric analysis

The rise of academic publishing due to the ‘publish or perish’ phenomenon has placed increased scrutiny on African scholars. The limited footprint of African scholars in international open-access journals has led to a drive for Africa to produce and disseminate its research. Publication analytics has become an essential strategy for journals for managing journals. This study uses bibliometric metrics to explore the publications metrics of the Independent Journal of Teaching and Learning, an open-access journal in South Africa. The study analyses bibliometric data from its articles published between 2008 and 2022. The study highlights the research clusters, themes and hotspots in the journal. This study helps obtain a snapshot of the journal’s status. The paper illustrates the development trends of the journal, which provides an essential reference for the future development of this and other similar journals. The journal has made a significant impact on the education landscape in South Africa.

Editorial to the Inaugural Issue

Dear editors, reviewers, authors, readers, and other members of the whole scientific and professional community, Welcome to this inaugural issue of Information Dynamics and Applications (IDA)! On behalf of the editorial office, I am writing with great pleasure and sincere privilege to present the first issue of the journal IDA. In the last few years, there is a growing necessity for information dynamics, especially with the extensive application of artificial intelligence in virtually all fields of science, economy, and life. It can be observed that many conflicting indicators are involved in the complex nature and society systems. The conflicting aims need to be balanced by developing and applying intelligent management decision models, which represents a significant challenge in uncertain environments, given the limited resources, time, and funds available. In addition, an important task in modern society is the possibility to make adequate decisions in real time through quantitative and qualitative analysis. Such analysis enables decision-makers to make real-time decisions by looking at the real needs of the companies and the market at any moment. This first issue aims to give answers to many important questions related to the scope of the journal. This issue consists of five very interesting high-quality papers, which apply decision models in various fields: in the Integration of Ontology Transformation into Hidden Markov Model, in the Geographic Routing Protocols in Wireless Sensor Network, in the Heterogeneous Sources at Different Levels of Granularity. In addition, digital marketing, quality models, MCDM model, and intelligent models related to information dynamics are discussed in this issue, shedding new lights on various management problems. Information Dynamics and Applications (IDA) (ISSN 2958-1486) is a fully refereed international open access journal, which publishes original research results in all subjects related to the dynamics and applications of information technology. The mission of the journal is to promote interdisciplinary research centered around the key issues of information processing, storage, and transmission. We welcome original submissions in various forms, including reviews, regular research papers, and short communications as well as Special Issues on particular topics. Our special interest lies in new analytical and application techniques of information technology in different fields of science and engineering. We follow principle of international diversity regarding the editorial board, reviewers and authors. Therefore, we invite and welcome submissions from around the world. All information related to IDA journal are available in our website: https://www.acadlore.com/journals/ida.

Iranian Journal of Materials Forming, Issue 3, July 2021

The “Iranian Journal of Materials Forming (IJMF)” is an international open access journal in the fields of materials deformation and forming processes, which was established at Shiraz University in 2014. The journal is pleased to receive papers from scientists and engineers from academic and industrial areas related to all manufacturing processes. In addition, all deformations, including the elastic and plastic behaviors of materials and deformations due to failure, are part of this journal's field of interest. This journal has been a quarterly issue, and from 2021 onwards, it will at least publish 24 articles a year with the aim of having a quantitative criterion for entering Scopus. The quality and credibility of the journal have been ensured by appointing some of the most well-known professors in the world as members of its editorial board. Recently, some world-renowned scientists have also been joined the editorial board, making it stronger than before. In addition, the wide range of the selected referees in this issue is a sign of its scientific quality.

Biophysica—A New International Open Access Journal to Integrate Across the Modern Biophysical Sciences and Engineering

“What do Biophysicists talk about [...]

Open Access Publications with Article Processing Charge (APC) Payment: a Brazilian Scenario Analysis.

The expansion of open access publications has been correlated with specific government policies in many countries. The evolution in these cases is understandable within the framework of funding regulations. However, this is not the case for Brazil, where no regulation is currently in place. The unusually high percentage of open access publications in the Brazilian scientific community is analyzed here toward understanding which factors influence this growth and how similar effects may also impact other countries, particularly developing nations. We found that from 2012 to 2019 the Brazilian scientific community drifted to international open access journals. This transition is discussed in the framework of mega journals.

Livers: A New Open Access Forum for Liver Research

Welcome to Livers, an international open-access journal that provides an advanced platform for basic, translational, and clinical research in the multi-disciplinary field of hepatology [...]

Change of Title: Bloods Becomes Hemato

Since January 2020, when the journal Bloods—the International Open Access Journal of Hematology—was founded, we have published six papers [...]

Soil Organisms - an international open access journal on the taxonomic and functional biodiversity in the soil.

Biodiversity change and the identification of the underlying drivers are in the focus of ecological research and public and political debate (IPBES 2019). Soil biodiversity has thus far rarely entered this discussion and analyses (Cameron et al. 2018), and substantial gaps in soil biodiversity and function data exist (Cameron et al. 2019). Furthermore, we know exceptionally little about temporal changes in soil biodiversity (Phillips et al. 2017), although soil biodiversity is thought to be essential for critical ecosystem functions and services (Bardgett & van der Putten 2014, Wall et al. 2015) but threatened by anthropogenic impacts (Veresoglou et al. 2015). At the same time, taxonomic expertise of soil biodiversity may be at risk, while novel molecular information still needs to be linked to species and functions (Geiger et al. 2016).

Evaluation and comparison of influence in international Open Access journals between China and USA

This paper makes an evaluation and comparison of influence on international Open Access (OA) between China and USA. First, Chinese and American OA journals are taken as an example. Second, combining traditional citation indicators with altmetrics indicators, a process of influence evaluation and comparison model on Chinese and American OA journals is constructed. Third, an evaluation indicator system of OA journals from two dimensions of academic influence and societal influence is constructed too. Lastly, through normalization, correlation analysis, reliability analysis, validity analysis, factor analysis and two-dimensional analysis, the academic and societal influence of OA journals are evaluated and compared between China and USA. It is found that in terms of academic influence and societal influence, the evaluation scores of international OA journals are quite different between China and USA. The influence of the USA is far greater than that of China. The results show a strong positive correlation among the 7 traditional citation indicators based on JCR, and a high positive correlation among the 8 altmetrics indicators based on Altmetrics Explorer, and the indicators have a significant consistency both overall and internal. There is a highly positive correlation between academic influence and societal influence scores for the Chinese and American OA journals. Overall, the results confirm that the evaluation of societal influence of OA journals is used as supplement to the evaluation of academic influence. Altmetrics is also a powerful tool to measure the societal influence of OA journals, but it cannot replace the traditional citation indicators at present.

Issue information

SComS is an international open access journal of communication research that is jointly edited by the Swiss Association of Communication and Media Research (SACMR) and the Faculty of Communication Sciences of the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI Lugano). It is published twice a year with the support of the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences (SAHS).SComS aims to build bridges between different research cultures, and publishes high-quality original articles in English, German, French, and Italian. As a general forum for communication scholarship, the journal is especially interested in research that crosses disciplinary boundaries.

Exercise Medicine: An International Open Access Journal Covering the Entirety of Sports and Exercise Medicine

Exercise Medicine: An International Open Access Journal Covering the Entirety of Sports and Exercise Medicine

Issue information

SComS is an international open access journal of communication research that is jointly edited by the Swiss Association of Communication and Media Research (SACMR) and the Faculty of Communication Sciences of the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI Lugano). It is published twice a year with the support of the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences (SAHS).SComS aims to build bridges between different research cultures, and publishes high-quality original articles in English, German, French, and Italian. As a general forum for communication scholarship, the journal is especially interested in research that crosses disciplinary boundaries.

Home visits in primary care: contents and organisation in daily practice. Study protocol of a cross-sectional study

IntroductionMedical care of homebound patients by home visits is an integral part of primary care in Germany and other industrialised countries. Owing to the sociodemography and changes in the health...

Congratulatory Message

First, let me express my heartfelt congratulations to the Journalof Disaster Research (JDR) on its tenth anniversary. TheThird UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, heldthis year in Sendai, Japan, is the third of three UN conferencesin the last three decades all held in Japan. This is partlybecause Japan is one country often subject to natural disasterswith man-made disasters following them. It is also becauseJapan has historically attempted to reduce and prevent disasterdamage. Lessons in tsunami disasters mainly learned from the 1933Showa Sanriku Earthquake Tsunami and 1960 Chile EarthquakeTsunami were tested in the 2011 Great East Japan EarthquakeDisaster. Concurrent tsunami damage and man-madeproblems arising in the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plantaccident were greatly exceeding anything predicted or imaginedand showed how Japan’s disaster reduction and preparednessefforts failed. In an ordeal on such an unprecedented scale, further lessonsmust be learned so that we may prepare better for impendinglarger disasters. Objectives of disaster research is to learn whatdisasters have to teach us scientifically and to find and proposemeasures that may help reduce disaster damage and help usimplement these measures. I believe that many researchers –particularly younger ones – now diligently and rapidly studyingin preparation for future disasters in view of what past researchmay have lacked. The results of their research should be channeledglobally into disaster reduction in Japan and elsewhere. As an international open-access journal, the JDR provides animportant forum for international research exchange in practicalways. It is my hope that the JDR will, on this occasion ofits tenth anniversary, continue to provide such a platform forwide-ranging leading-edge research, and that it will therebycontribute to building a society supremely resilient against disaster.

Eye and Vision (E & V): the critical link between eye and vision.

“The eye is the window to the soul” – this age-old adage succinctly encapsulates the vital importance of the complex and organic structure of the eye and its involvement in the functionality of vision and perception. In most instances however, the eye and vision tend to be addressed as separate entities and the interrelation between form and function then gets neglected. As a result, we fail to acknowledge or recognize that this critical gap between the eye and vision hold the key to more efficient and effective diagnosis and treatment of common eye diseases and vision problems like diabetic retinopathy, age-related macular degeneration, cataract, and glaucoma. In the past decades, we have witnessed dramatic increases in prevalence and incidence of eye diseases and vision impairment and these have garnered increased attention in the medical and scientific fields because they pose significant public health concerns. According to the WHO (2013), an estimated 285 million people are visually impaired globally. Major causes of visual impairment worldwide include uncorrected refractive errors (43%), unoperated cataract (22%), and glaucoma (2%) www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs282/en/. Furthermore, it is expected that by the year 2020, approximately 37 million worldwide would be blind or have low vision. The consequences then, of our oversight regarding the gap between the eye and vision has led to increased economic burden to the society and psychosocial problems like depression, fear and anxiety, unemployment, and divorce. With the graying of the worldwide population that is responsible for a large part of these seemingly catastrophic numbers, what can be done to avert this undesirable occurrence? These otherwise alarming statistics may be prevented if more effort was devoted to bridging the disciplines of ophthalmology, optometry, and the visual sciences. Since 80% of all visual impairment globally is said to be preventable or curable, we need to work toward encouraging collaborative research and the open sharing of knowledge between ophthalmologists, optometrists, visual scientists and others, in order to disseminate accurate, reliable, and applicable information with the hopes of crippling eye and vision diseases. Therefore, Eye and Vision (E & V) being a peer-reviewed, international Open Access journal is devoted to the rapid publication of novel and exciting results on fundamental issues in all aspects of eye and vision that include (but is not limited to) current developments of theoretical, experimental and clinical investigations in ophthalmology, optometry and visual sciences, which focus on novel and high-impact findings on central issues pertaining to biology, pathophysiology and etiology of eye diseases as well as advances in diagnostic techniques, surgical treatments, instrument updates, and the latest research findings. The utmost goal of this journal is thus to provide a platform to bridge the inherent knowledge gap between studies of physical and structural aspects of the eye and its functionality in vision and perception.

Psychotraumatology: rich in international and cross-cultural collaboration

Although European countries differ widely in their approach to psychotrauma and its consequences, with 20 years of European psychotraumatology in the form of the European Society for Traumatic Studies (ESTSS) there is now increasing dissemination of evidence-based care reaching more and more professionals and scholars in Europe. The society has moved forward to become a European umbrella organization serving many different European countries and cultures. This article describes the process of the restructuring and how ESTSS has grown from collaboration with other traumatic stress partners inside and outside Europe. The knowledge generated by The European Network for Traumatic Stress (TENTS) project has helped this process as well as the creation of an international open-access journal, the European Journal of Psychotraumatology (EJPT), for optimal dissemination of knowledge.

Humanity and Sustainability

So far our open access publishing company MDPI (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute) has published mainly science, medicine and technology journals. To become a multidisciplinary publisher, we launched the journal Sustainability [1]. More recently, we started to run several social science journals, including Societies [2], Religions [3], Administrative Sciences [4] and Behavioral Sciences [5]. Today we published the first paper [6] of the inaugural issue of Humanities (ISSN 2076-0787). This will be an international open access journal, publishing scholarly papers of high quality across all humanities disciplines. As a publisher, I would like to publish journals surrounding the topics of sustainability and I believe the humanities as a discipline of academic studies are very important. As a scientist, I believed science and technology will only benefit human beings. I was raised in a small village, living a very primitive life in a peasant family: no electricity, no machines, of course no TV and no refrigerator. Now, the life of my children is completely different. Even my own life has completely changed. I have witnessed very rapid changes: more and more machines are used to consume mineral resources and energy and to pollute the environment, in order to produce more and more powerful machines (we are also launching a journal titled Machines, in which the relationship between Man and machine should be an interesting topic.). Machines are more and more like human individuals consuming resources themselves (we are launching a journal titled Resources). [...]

Why BioImpacts?

Integration of in vitro and in vivo investigations has brought the body of new emerging life sciences about. This inspirational domain needs a scientific platform to cover the relevant publications. BioImpacts (BI), as a peer-reviewed multidisciplinary international open access journal, intends to deal with all aspects of biological and biomedical researches at dimensions of molecular, cellular, functional and translational dimensions.

A Bridge Too Far? Stepping Stones for Evidence Based Practice in an Academic Context

Entering its second decade, evidence based library and information practice (EBLIP), the now-preferred term for evidence based librarianship, can count some notable successes. In particular, the initiation and growth of an international open access journal, the ongoing development of an International Conference series, and a proliferation of articles on the stages of the evidence based process attest to its ongoing progress. Of particular note is the increasing engagement within the academic library community now manifest in a variety of case studies. Reviewing the most recent five years of EBLIP development, since a landmark review that chronicled the first five years, the author draws on his close association with the EBLIP movement to assess the progress made. The wider backdrop of evidence based practice has contributed a wider recognition of the types of evidence that support evidence based decision-making. Much technical progress has been made in identification and retrieval of the evidence and its subsequent quality assessment. A significant number of studies document implementation in a local context. Notwithstanding such progress, however, the distance to be travelled is still significant. Challenges remaining within an academic library context include the perennials of lack of time, shortage of skills and the need for a supportive culture and infrastructure. Nevertheless recent developments open up the prospect of drawing on the emerging evidence based practice toolkit to target such problems with tailored and appropriate responses.