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Oct 23, 2020 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
Last up in our #OAWeek2020 series on the RPT process: How do tenure guidelines value nontraditional academic outputs, like blog posts or podcasts? (1/n)
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To find out, we scoured 860+ RPT documents to see whether they mentioned blog posts, preprints, events & other kinds of scholarly outputs. (2/n)
Oct 22, 2020 • 7 tweets • 5 min read
How do faculty decide where to publish? Today’s #OAWeek2020 thread features results from our survey of 300+ academics on their publishing decisions (1/n)
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We used a range of methods to explore how factors like age, tenure status, and expectations of other faculty relate to publishing decisions. (2/n)
Oct 21, 2020 • 7 tweets • 6 min read
Today for our #OAWeek2020 series, a touchy subject: the JIF.
In our study of RPT documents, we wanted to know how important this metric is in the review and promotion process. (1/n)
To find out, we looked at how often the Journal Impact Factor was mentioned in RPT documents, as well as how it was portrayed. (2/n)