Publications

Articles published in academic journals:

Wakeling, S., Willett, P., Creaser, C., Fry, J., Pinfield, S., & Spezi, V. (2020). “No comment”?: A study of commenting on PLOS articles. Journal of Information Science, 46(1), 82–100. https://doi.org/10.1177/0165551518819965

Wakeling, S., Spezi, V., Fry, J., Creaser, C., Pinfield, S., & Willett, P. (2019). Academic communities: the role of journals and open-access mega-journals in scholarly communication. Journal of Documentation, 75(1), 120–139. https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-05-2018-0067

Wakeling, S., Creaser, C., Pinfield, S., Fry, J., Spezi, V., & Willett, P. (2019). Motivations, understandings and experiences of open-access mega-journal authors: Results of a large-scale survey. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 70(7), 754–768. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24154

Spezi, V., Wakeling, S., Pinfield, S., Willett, P., Fry, J., & Creaser, C. (2018). “Let the community decide”? The vision and reality of soundness-only peer review in open-access mega-journals. Journal of Documentation, 74(1), 137–161. https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-06-2017-0092

Wakeling, S., Spezi, V., Creaser, C., Fry, J., Pinfield, S., & Willett, P. (2017). Open access megajournals: The publisher perspective (part 2: Operational realities). Learned Publishing, 30(4), 313–322. https://doi.org/10.1002/leap.1118

Wakeling, S., Spezi, V., Fry, J., Creaser, C., Pinfield, S., & Willett, P. (2017). Open access megajournals: The publisher perspective (part 1: Motivations). Learned Publishing, 30(4), 301–311. https://doi.org/10.1002/leap.1117

Wakeling, S., Willett, P., Creaser, C., Fry, J., Pinfield, S., & Spezi, V. (2017). Transitioning from a conventional to a ‘mega’ journal: A bibliometric case study of the journal Medicine. Publications, 5(2), 7. https://doi.org/10.3390/publications5020007

Spezi, V., Wakeling, S., Pinfield, S., Creaser, C., Fry, J., & Willett, P. (2017). Open-access mega-journals: The future of scholarly communication or academic dumping ground? A review. Journal of Documentation, 73(2), 263–283. https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-06-2016-0082

Wakeling, S., Willett, P., Creaser, C., Fry, J., Pinfield, S., & Spezi, V. (2016). Open-access mega-journals: A bibliometric profile. PLOS ONE, 11(11), e0165359. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0165359

Conferences:

  • The Researcher to Reader Conference, London, February 26-27 2018, Jenny Fry
  • SSP 39th Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, May 31-Jun 2, 2017, Stephen Pinfield and Simon Wakeling
  • STM conference, Frankfurt, October 18 2016, Stephen Pinfield
  • ALPSP, Heathrow, 14-16 September 2016, Stephen Pinfield and Simon Wakeling
  • SSP pre-conference, Vancouver, June 1-3 2016, Stephen Pinfield
  • RLUK conference, British Library, March 9-11 2016, Stephen Pinfield

Related publications:

Fry, J. & Wakeling, S. (2019). Who are you writing for? The role of community membership on authors’ decisions to publish in open-access mega-journals. LSE Impact Blog. https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2019/01/11/who-are-you-writing-for-the-role-of-community-membership-on-authors-decisions-to-publish-in-open-access-mega-journals/

Wakeling, S., Pinfield, S., & Willett, P. (2019). A study of commenting on PLOS articles. Scholarly Kitchen.  https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2019/05/15/guest-post-a-study-of-commenting-on-plos-articles/

Claire Creaser, Jenny Fry, Stephen Pinfield, Valérie Spezi, Simon Wakeling, Peter Willett (2017). Open-access mega-journals. CILIP Update, March 2017 issue.

Pinfield, S. (2016). Mega-journals: The future, a stepping stone to it or a leap into the abyss? Times Higher Education Online, 13 October.  https://www.timeshighereducation.com/mega-journals-future-stepping-stone-it-or-leap-abyss

Data sets

Open-access mega-journals and the future of scholarly communication