Vesna Abadić
vesnaa@kg.ac.rs
Marija Gordić
mgordic@kg.ac.rs
Univerzitet u Kragujevcu
Univerzitetska biblioteka u Kragujevcu
doi: 10.19090/cit.2020.37.12-25
No. 37 (November 2020), p. 12-25
Megajournal - a New Standard of Scientific Journals in Science 2.0?
Summary
Since the megajournal concept was established as a model of a sustainable scientific open access only journal, the
scientific public has been polarized. On the one hand, these journals are seen as the future of academic publishing,
enabling faster availability of research results, and thus easier communication between researchers, while on the
other hand, for a number of authors, this new and non-traditional way of publishing scientific achievements is
debatable. In addition to obvious criticism and public controversy, megajournals have been described as a dumping
ground for works of untested quality, with good earnings for their publishers, which automatically characterizes them
as predatory. Besides the basic characteristics, the paper gives an overview of five influential megajournals, including
their bibliometric indicators. The increase in the number of published papers and impact factors in the initial years
of publication, indicates that megajournals have been recognized and accepted as a business model. In the last few
years, during the analysis of various metrics of published megajournals, a certain stagnation has been noticed, which
indicates the hyperproduction of new works in an increasing number of titles.
Keywords:
megajournals, open science, journal metrics, scientific paper, bibliometric indicators, OAMJ, impact factor
Submitted: 17th August 2020
Correction to the manuscript: 24th September 2020
Accepted for publication: 12th October 2020
Megajournal - a New Standard of Scientific Journals in Science 2.0?
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Vesna Abadić, Marija Gordić
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