Feature Of Journal Research Articles

The missile nuclear problem of North Korea as a key factor in the destabilization of Northeast Asia

The purpose of the article is to study the missile and nuclear problem of North Korea from the point of view of its impact on the security situation in the modern globalized world. The methodology is based on the use of methods from the field of political science: the method of comparative-institutional analysis, the classical normative-institutional method of the normative approach. When solving the tasks, the theoretical research method was applied: synthesis and analysis of scientific literature for the theoretical basis of the research, qualitative content analysis of media publications, generalization of the analysis results. The method of deduction was used to identify the characteristic features of cultural journalism. Scientific novely. The key factors of destabilization and conflict on the Korean Peninsula are analyzed. It is shown that the missile and nuclear problem of North Korea is the cause of confrontation not only between the USA - the DPRK, the Republic of Korea - the DPRK, but also between the blocs of the USA - the Republic of Korea - Japan and China - the DPRK. It was determined that a characteristic feature of the policy of states with nuclear missile complexes is the tendency to mostly observe the norms of international legal regulation of nuclear policy, which affected the low global trend of the proliferation of nuclear missile weapons. Conclusions. It is proved that the study of scientific approaches confirms the existence of a common position of scientists regarding the peculiarities of the types of political regimes of states under which the state can be a potential participant in missile and nuclear policy as a subject. In particular, it should be summarized that among such states, states with democratic regimes (USA, Great Britain, France, etc.) are in the lead, but states with authoritarian and totalitarian regimes are represented in a smaller number among subjects of missile and nuclear policy (PRC, DPRK).

Perceived usefulness of a shared journal feature to support coordination and communication across dementia care networks

AbstractBackgroundCare partners (family and friends) for people living with Alzheimer’s Disease and related dementias (ADRD) often provide care within a care network of both informal (e.g. family, friends) and formal (e.g. home aides, respite care) supports. Care networks can improve care but are often associated with increased communication and coordination demands. Technology interventions have potential to support care networks, but evidence is limited. This study explored care network use of a shared communication platform to identify care partner’s perceptions of the platform’s usefulness.MethodThis study used data from a feasibility trial for CareVirtue, a web application designed to support care partners in storing and sharing information with members of their network. Fifty‐one care networks comprised of a primary care partner and other network members (N = 61) in California and Wisconsin used CareVirtue for 60 days and completed a post‐trial semi‐structured interview. This analysis focused on CareVirtue’s journal feature, which allows users to share daily experiences through written posts published to a newsfeed that care network members can view and comment on. We exported the text of these journal entries and conducted team‐based content analysis. We performed a thematic analysis on interview transcripts to identify themes related to the journal’s usefulness.ResultIn total 2,535 journal entries from 51 primary care partners (75% female, mean age = 60 years old, 55% children of care recipient, 40% spouses) and their care network were analyzed.Journal entries: We identified four categories of communication and coordination activities: 1) information acquisition in which care network members sought updates; 2) information sharing including tracking behaviors, symptoms, and daily activities; 3) strategy development in which care network members used two‐way communication to co‐create care solutions; and 4) feedback including affirmation, empathy, gratitude, confirmation, and information exchange.Interviews: We identified three journal usefulness themes: individual level usefulness including tracking information and therapeutic benefits; network level usefulness including facilitating collaboration; and relational usefulness including increased situational awareness and feeling seen as a care partner.ConclusionThe CareVirtue journal facilitated communication across the care network and also enabled self‐exploration, heightened awareness, and collaborative strategy development among the care network.

Российские журналы категории «History» в Scopus: основные показатели и оценка влияния на международном уровне

The article presents an analysis of Russian journals indexed in Scopus in 2021 by the category “History.” The purpose of the study was to assess the current level and influence of Russian historical journals on the basis of a comparison of their bibliometric indicators with data from journals in France and Germany. Sources and methods. The sources were the data of the Scopus international scientometric database, the SCImago Journal & Country Rank portal, the Russian Science Citation Index, and the Internet sites of journals. Conclusions and discussion. The important features of Russian journals that need to be taken into account when analyzing their bibliometric indicators are revealed: the late start of indexing in Scopus, the presence of more works from other socio-humanities, a large number of articles published annually, the affiliation of the absolute majority of historical journals to universities and research institutes, and the predominance of the journal distribution model by the type of open access. Open access to Russian journals compensates for a high percentage of publications in Russian (85.5%) and a high proportion of Russian authors (82.8%). In terms of citation indicators, Russian journals are superior to French ones and inferior to German ones. Based on the analysis of the “extreme citation” of individual Russian journals, options for correcting it are proposed. Despite the higher self-citation rate of Russian journals (40%), they have higher ratings on average, both at the national level and in comparison with historical journals in France and Germany. The question of defining the boundaries between the specializations of the journal in a closed scientific discipline, going beyond which can be assessed as artificial self-citation, is raised separately. Doubts are expressed about the possibility of a rapid reorientation of Russian journals from the European and American areas of cooperation to researchers from other regions.

The 19th European Conference on Applications of Surface and Interface Analysis

The 19th European Conference on Applications of Surface and Interface Analysis (ECASIA'22) was held at the University of Limerick in the Republic of Ireland from 29 May – 3 June 2022. For many this was the first face-to-face meeting since the end of the COVID 19 Pandemic and for this reason it is perhaps not surprising that numbers were somewhat lower than one would expect to see at an ECASIA Meeting. The Pandemic meant that it was not possible to run the conference in its traditional slot two years after the previous one in Dresden in 2019. However the organisers, Professor Tofail Syed and his team at the University of Limerick, ran a one-day virtual event on 18th June 2021 to ensure that ECASIA remained firmly fixed in people's minds. Bearing in mind the circumstances, the conference was well attended with well over 200 delegates. Together some 200 papers were presented including 16 plenary and keynote contributions and 130 oral presentations. The ECASIA Award was made for the fifth time, with Professor Jiro Matsuo following in the distinguished footsteps of Siegfried Hofmann (2013), Jim Castle (2015), David Castner (2017) and Aleksander Jablonski (2019). Jiro's Award Lecture was entitled “Collisions of Cluster Ions: Fundamental Phenomena and Applications” and gave a wide-ranging exposition of the development of massive gas cluster ions for use in SIMS and XPS depth profiling, along with a thorough overview of current and future applications. The traditional Wednesday afternoon excursion was to Bunratty Folk Park & Castle, which was followed in the evening by the conference dinner at the Strand Hotel in Limerick city centre. The latter featured traditional Irish music and much dancing! This Special Issue of the journal features but a small cross section of the papers presented at the Conference. These papers cover many of the topics that traditionally feature at ECASIA conferences and make them so deservedly popular. Topics that feature in this Special Issue include biomaterials, catalysis, corrosion, data analysis, depth profiling, electronics and polymers. As always it falls to us to thank the authors for responding in a timely manner to reviewers comments and, of course, to the professional manner in which all referees carried out their task so diligently. The referees are the unsung heroes of the publishing world and as our lives get busier and busier, it is gratifying that there is still such a dedicated band of individuals. So, the ECASIA Conference series moves towards its twentieth meeting. This will be held in Gothenburg Sweden during the week of 9 – 14 June 2024, with Professor Lars Nyborg as Conference Chair. More senior members of the ECASIA Community may remember the ECASIA'97 held in this city, a difficult act to follow but we know Lars and his team are up to it. See you in Gothenburg in June 2024!

Творчість Сергія Жадана крізь призму експлікації елементів гонзо-журналістики

The article analyzes the problem of gonzo journalism and explains its elements in the work of the Ukrainian writer and musician Serhiy Zhadan. The work aimed to identify the elements of gonzo journalism in Serhiy Zhadan's work. We chose the hypothetico-deductive, inductive, analysis, synthesis and survey as the primary research methods. We surveyed the Google Forms platform, which helped us determine the importance of conducting this study and draw conclusions based on the mentioned topic. Respondents were 53 (100%) women and men over 18. All respondents are citizens of Ukraine. During the survey, we provided a short biographical reference to familiarize the respondents with the figure of Serhiy Zhadan and defined the main features of gonzo journalism. After that, we asked the respondents to answer three test questions and one question that required an extended answer. 1) «Do you consider it important to conduct research that would shape the characteristics of gonzo journalism in Ukraine?». The answer options are «yes» or «no». 2) «Are you familiar with Serhiy Zhadan's work?» The answer options are «yes» or «no». 3) «Do you think that Serhiy Zhadan's work contains elements of gonzo journalism?» The answer options are «yes», «no», and «not familiar with his work». 4) «If so, which of his works, in your opinion, contain elements of gonzo journalism?» The study results showed that Serhiy Zhadan's work contains elements of gonzo journalism. Keywords: Serhiy Zhadan, gonzo journalism, creativity, explanation.

FOREWORDS BY EDITOR

FOREWORDS BY EDITOR

The Year’s Work in American Humor Studies, 2021

The Year’s Work in American Humor Studies, 2021

An open automation system for predatory journal detection

The growing number of online open-access journals promotes academic exchanges, but the prevalence of predatory journals is undermining the scholarly reporting process. Data collection, feature extraction, and model prediction are common steps in tools designed to distinguish between legitimate and predatory academic journals and publisher websites. The authors include them in their proposed academic journal predatory checking (AJPC) system based on machine learning methods. The AJPC data collection process extracts 833 blacklists and 1213 whitelists information from websites to be used for identifying words and phrases that might indicate the presence of predatory journals. Feature extraction is used to identify words and terms that help detect predatory websites, and the system’s prediction stage uses eight classification algorithms to distinguish between potentially predatory and legitimate journals. We found that enhancing the classification efficiency of the bag of words model and TF-IDF algorithm with diff scores (a measure of differences in specific word frequencies between journals) can assist in identifying predatory journal feature words. Results from performance tests suggest that our system works as well as or better than those currently being used to identify suspect publishers and publications. The open system only provides reference results rather than absolute opinions and accepts user inquiries and feedback to update the system and optimize performance.

Predictable by publication: discovery of early highly cited academic papers based on their own features

PurposePredicting highly cited papers can enable an evaluation of the potential of papers and the early detection and determination of academic achievement value. However, most highly cited paper prediction studies consider early citation information, so predicting highly cited papers by publication is challenging. Therefore, the authors propose a method for predicting early highly cited papers based on their own features.Design/methodology/approachThis research analyzed academic papers published in the Journal of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) from 2000 to 2013. Five types of features were extracted: paper features, journal features, author features, reference features and semantic features. Subsequently, the authors applied a deep neural network (DNN), support vector machine (SVM), decision tree (DT) and logistic regression (LGR), and they predicted highly cited papers 1–3 years after publication.FindingsExperimental results showed that early highly cited academic papers are predictable when they are first published. The authors’ prediction models showed considerable performance. This study further confirmed that the features of references and authors play an important role in predicting early highly cited papers. In addition, the proportion of high-quality journal references has a more significant impact on prediction.Originality/valueBased on the available information at the time of publication, this study proposed an effective early highly cited paper prediction model. This study facilitates the early discovery and realization of the value of scientific and technological achievements.

THE ROLE AND POSITION OF WOMEN IN SPORTS JOURNALISM

Sports journalism is a special type of journalism that transmits information on sports topics and events. The stereotype that men can report on sports better than women is often encountered. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to discover what used to be the position and role of women in sports journalism and what it is today, to discover whether sports journalists face discrimination, what the public thinks of women in sports journalism and what future women have in this field. In this regard, the hypotheses have been set in according to which it is harder for women to succeed in sports journalism, further how female sports journalists encounter various forms of discrimination which results in less interest from women in sports journalism in general. In the research, we used general and special methodology, but also the historical method, with which we discovered the historical role of women in journalism in general and in sports journalism. The content first covered the special features of sports journalism and sports journalists, and then a research was conducted. Recent literature was used and surveys were conducted with different target groups. The results of the research determined the justification of the goals and the position of women in sports journalism and thus confirmed the set hypotheses. Based on the collected data, an analysis of the results was made, and further to the discussion, the conclusions were reached in respect of the justification of the goals and evidence of the set hypotheses. Continuation of research on this topic should focus on more sophisticated methods and the educational process in order to better represent the women in sports journalism.

Жаңа медиа жанрларының трансформациясы

The article analyzes genre features in new media in Kazakhstan, the transformation of genres, the advantages and features of internet journalism. The differences and similarities between new media and traditional media are considered and a comprehensive analysis of organizational and technological changes in Information, Broadcasting activities is carried out. The specifics of the functioning of internet journalism in accordance with the requirements of society, the preparation of journalistic materials by journalists are studied in detail. The specifics of the new mass media of an advanced type, in which various internet sites and social institutions are diversified both in the way of presenting information, competing with traditional media, and the presence of own sites of traditional mass media, the expansion of the audience in the course of convergence of the content of modern media, and the increase in platforms for transmitting and posting information are analyzed by specific examples. The reason why the modern genre system of internet publications has not yet been fundamentally studied, the reasons for the increase in the number of online publications and the change in genres are revealed.

Our new cover artist for 2023

This January 2023 issue of our journal features the first creation of the cover artist who will accompany The Lancet Infectious Diseases throughout the year: Sara Gironi Carnevale. Sara has won our annual competition of artists from all over the world with her striking and innovative image inspired by the article on malaria treatment among forest workers in Cambodia on page 81. Sara is the third Italian artist to win the competition in the last four years and only the second female artist to work with us and I am looking forward to working with her this year.

The challenge of predatory publishing in India and steps taken to prevent it

India continues to account for a large share not only in publishing predatory journals but also in publishing papers in such journals. The sheer number of academics in India, the continued pressure on them to publish, and the country’s capabilities in information technology are the driving forces. Despite sporadic attempts to find acceptable alternatives to using publication metrics for evaluating scientists and academics, the number of papers published by them in journals, a metric usually refined by introducing some measures of the quality of the journals in which the papers are published, continues to be the most widely used criterion for evaluating research performance. This emphasis favours predatory or deceptive journals because they offer rapid publication and usually have more modest article-processing charges. To prospective authors, such journals often appear indistinguishable from legitimate scholarly journals. This article (1) seeks to bridge that gap in knowledge by suggesting some ways of choosing the right journals and pointing out a number of features of predatory or deceptive journals to help authors to identify and avoid those journals; (2) offers a brief overview of measures taken by the authorities in India to curb predatory journals and the practice of publishing papers in such journals; and (3) suggests some novel ways other than publication metrics of assessing researchers.

Collaborative Artificial Intelligence in Practice: The Next Steps.

Collaborative Artificial Intelligence in Practice: The Next Steps.

Navigating the new world of scientific publications

An increasing number of scholarly journals and scientific papers are available in open access on the journal’s websites (gold open access) and in repositories (green open access). Although both ways of achieving open access provide free access to end users, publishing costs still exist and are collected from a variety of sources, e.g. through article processing charges (APC) or crowdfunding (Spezi, Fry, Creaser, Probets and White, 2013). The idea of the open access model was to make high quality journals available to the widest possible public (BOAI, 2002) and the model today has many benefits for the scientific communication. Nevertheless, a deviation has developed recently. The deviation – the emergence of so-called predatory journals – threatens quality and reliability of scientific communication. Such journals attract authors with low APC fees, fast publication, and false indexation data (Beal, 2015; Jalalian, Mahboobi, 2014). Predatory journals and publishers promise quick peer-review, they often have fake editorials listed on their websites, send emails inviting authors to publish papers or offering them to be editors of their journals (Bowman, 2014). Those journals are in open access, they use article processing charges model but do not control the quality (i.e. peer review process is insufficient or, in most cases, non-existent). As the information published in such journals is not verified, there is a possibility that it is wrong and further research should not be based on it. Although there is a lot of information in the literature about the common features of predatory journals and publishers, they can be defined as “the entities which prioritize self-interest at the expense of financial gain and are characterized by false or misleading information, deviation from best editorial and publishing practices, lack of transparency, and/or persistent and random requests” (Grudniewicz et al., 2019, p. 211).The number of predatory journals has grown, and this has become a major problem for scientific communication and the development of science. Various attempts have been made to characterize and identify predatory journals and help researchers and other participants of scholarly communication to distinguish them from reliable journals. One such attempt was to separate the two with lists (Dadkhah, Borchardt, 2016; Laine, Winker, 2017; Shen, Björk, 2015; Strinzel, et al, 2019). The best-known blacklist of “potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access journals” is the one by Jeffrey Beall, a librarian who coined the term “predatory” journal in 2015 (Beall’s list). The aim of our study was to investigate whether Croatian scientists published in predatory journals and in how many of them. The sample consisted of open access (OA) papers published in 2016 and 2020 as listed by the Croatian Scientific Bibliography (CROSBI). First we separated those published in journals covered by the Web of Science (WoS), Scopus, and DOAJ databases. The remainder was checked against three “blacklists”: the DOAJ list of journals that claim they are indexed in DOAJ but are not (DOAJ, 2022), the archived version of Beall’s list (Beall, 2017), and Kscien’s list of standalone predatory journals and publishers (Kscien, 2015).

Posthumous celebrity, persona and memorialisation: French newspaper coverage of the popular music artist Johnny Hallyday

ABSTRACT Focusing on the popular music artist Johnny Hallyday in the immediate aftermath of his death in 2017, this article shows how his initial posthumous newspaper coverage in France exhibits many of the general features of celebrity news and journalism, draws a broadly positive consensus around his public persona when alive while opening up possible areas for discussion or debate and represents his memorialisation as a particular site of division.

"It made me feel like I wasn't alone in the darkness": exploring dementia care network communication and coordination through a digital health platform.

To explore the use of a shared communication and coordination platform-the CareVirtue journal feature-for care networks of people living with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias to inform the design of care network support technologies. In the primary study, care networks comprised the primary caregiver and other caregivers they invited to participate (eg, family members, in-home aides) used CareVirtue, for 60days followed by a semistructured interview to explore primary caregivers' perceptions of usefulness. This secondary analysis focused on use of the shared journal feature of CareVirtue, which allowed care networks to communicate through posts that were shared with the network and to which network members could respond. Journal posts were analyzed using a deductive/inductive content analysis to categorize information behavior. We also conducted a thematic analysis of the interviews to identify primary caregivers' perceptions of the journal's usefulness. Care networks used the journal for: (1) information acquisition, (2) information sharing, (3) strategy development, and (4) information feedback. Thematic analysis revealed that caregivers felt the journal was useful at the individual, care network, and relational levels and that journal integration was influenced by care network structure and relationships. Care networks used the journal to document, share, and acquire information; co-create strategies; and provide support. The usefulness of this shared communication and coordination platform included individual and care network level benefits. These findings point to the importance of caregiver-centered technologies that support both the individual primary caregiver and the care network.

Junk journals: Scientometrics vs Science

The social organization of the Russian scientific community is such that many established ethical standards conflict with the real research practice. Using exclusively scientometric approaches to assessing scientific achievements leads to the fact that the quantitative indicators of this assessment prevail over the true results of research activity. The paper aims to reveal organizational problems associated with the interaction with junk journals that result in ‘clogging’ and ‘emptying’ objective scientific knowledge about the modern world. The theoretical basis of the study includes scientometric approaches to evaluating publication activity. Statistical methods were used to analyse the development and spread of unscrupulous journals and junk scientific conferences; the methods of expert assessments and content analysis were also applied. The information base is the corpus of leading Russian and foreign researchers’ works on scientometric evaluation of publications and the use of special methods of bibliometric analysis. The multiplicity of fraud issues in science still unresolved and the palliative measures taken make it possible to assess the harmfulness of scientometric formalism from a new perspective. The main features of junk journals are identified: lack of peer review, international collaboration and target audience; multidisciplinarity; demand-based journal volumes; a short publication cycle, etc. In the article, we assess the dynamics and spread of such journals in Russian science, identify effective measures to counteract law-quality publications, such as retraction and a combination of altmetric and bibliometric methods for evaluating studies. Another focus of analysis is to describe the practice of junk conferences and provide criteria for their identification.

Reporting Through Patriotic Lenses: How Journalists and Political Actors Understand and Assess the Community Role of Local Journalism

ABSTRACT Local news media are seen as key to local democracy and communal cohesion. This article asks how the community role of local journalism is understood and assessed by journalists and political actors. The study builds on 26 in-depth interviews with local journalists and local political actors involved in conflicts over localisation of hospitals in two different regions in Norway. Theoretically, the article draws on research into the roles of local news media and the place-making features of local journalism. We conceptualise the community role as an overarching role of local journalism, where characteristics related to, e.g., the watchdog and advocacy roles of local journalism may serve a community function. Our analysis shows that local patriotism is regarded as a key aspect of local journalism, where local news media are expected to report through specific spatial lenses to the benefit of the local community. Yet although local journalists and local political actors largely agree on key ideals of local journalism, they advance different perspectives on what form of local news reporting is in the best interest of the community. In sum, local patriotism is considered both a force and an obstacle when journalists are serving the community.

Introduction

This special issue of SiSAL Journal features papers from the last Research Network on Learner Autonomy (ReNLA) Symposium. The most recent Association Internationale de Linguistique Appliquée (or International Association of Applied Linguistics/ AILA) Congress took place in August 2021.