Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Taxpayers fund a lot of university research in the U.S., and these findings published in scholarly journals often produce major ...

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In a field like gender studies, what constitutes a respectable outlet? We can make progress toward answering that question by utilizing SCImago's ranking of academic journals. Last week, a funny and ...

Last month, the University of California reached an impasse with one of the world’s biggest publishers of academic journals over whether the company’s publications would be included in the ...

The Internet's influence on scholarly publishing will return control and benefits to the academy and radically change the nature of the static print journal. The Internet is going to forever change ...

In the publish-or-perish world of academia, it’s often believed that only one kind of publication matters: the peer-reviewed journal article. Academic papers play an outsize role in determining ...

Every university has a list of A journals, those it considers to be the most prestigious in its field. Even the journals that rank institutions have such lists, and many universities use them to ...

Stephen Cramond has consulted to academic publishers in the past. As the cost of accessing academic journal articles increases, a growing number of academic institutions are building publicly ...

Can a 115-year-old dog learn new tricks? In April 1906, the neurologist Morton Prince published the first issue of the Journal of Abnormal Psychology. At the time, modern psychology was still emerging ...