ON WAYS AND METHODS OF CONTROL OF PAID SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES
Polad Shahmali oglu Geidarov
The Institute of Control Systems, National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan, 9, Bakhtiyar Vahabzadeh st. Baku, Az 1141, Azerbaijan
Keywords: электронная наука, реформы в науке, импакт фактор, индекс цитирования, научный семинар, защита диссертаций, нерецензируемые статьи, electronic science, reforms in science, impact factor, citation index, scientific seminar, presentation of a thesis, non-peer-reviewed articles
Abstract
In recent years, the Internet offers services concerning publication of articles in scientific journals for a fee. Such business services appeared because of author’s wish for publishing their works in prestigious journals with high impact factors, as well as for publishing many articles quickly and artificially increasing their personal citation indexes (e.g., the H-index) in this way. Providing such a commercial service does not imply evaluating the quality and scientific level of articles which authors produced. As a result, methods of evaluating scientific works by using citation indexes become dubious. In this paper, we consider some schemes of publishing scientific works for a fee and possible ways of resisting such events. Besides, we analyze how citation indexes may influence publishing scientific works for a fee, as well as what and how effective control methods of disclosing and preventing such events may be. To resist paid publications, we propose to use an expertise system where experts perform their evaluation in the framework of electronic scientific seminar. We consider advantages of electronic scientific seminar as a means of eliminating the very phenomenon of paid publications over other approaches. In addition, we describe the necessary conditions for creating an electronic scientific seminar system and ensuring a high quality decision making basing on expertise.
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