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Publication date: 21 November 2016

Joachim Schöpfel, Coline Ferrant, Francis André and Renaud Fabre

This paper aims to present empirical evidence on the opinion and behaviour of French scientists (senior management level) regarding open access (OA) to scientific and technical…

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Purpose

This paper aims to present empirical evidence on the opinion and behaviour of French scientists (senior management level) regarding open access (OA) to scientific and technical information.

Design/methodology/approach

The results are part of a nationwide survey on scientific information and documentation with 432 directors of French public research laboratories conducted by the French National Research Center (CNRS) in 2014.

Findings

The CNRS senior research managers (laboratory directors) globally share the positive opinion towards OA revealed by other studies with researchers from the UK, Germany, the USA and other countries. However, they are more supportive of open repositories (green road) than of OA journal publishing (gold). The response patterns reveal a gap between generally positive opinions about OA and less supportive behaviours, principally publishing articles with article processing charges (APCs). A small group of senior research managers does not seem to be interested in green or gold OA and reluctant to self-archiving and OA publishing. Similar to other studies, the French survey confirms disciplinary differences, i.e. a stronger support for self-archiving of records and documents in HAL by scientists from Mathematics, Physics and Informatics than from Biology, Earth Sciences and Chemistry; and more experience and positive feelings with OA publishing and payment of APCs in Biology than in Mathematics or in Social Sciences and Humanities. Disciplinary differences and specific French factors are discussed, in particular in the context of the new European policy in favour of Open Science.

Originality/value

For the first time, a nationwide survey was conducted with the senior research management level from all scientific disciplines. The response rate was high (>30 per cent), and the results provide good insight into the real awareness, support and uptake of OA by senior research managers who provide both models (examples for good practice) and opinion leadership.

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Interlending & Document Supply, vol. 44 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0264-1615

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Publication date: 5 March 2018

Joachim Schöpfel, Coline Ferrant, Francis André and Renaud Fabre

The purpose of this paper is to present empirical evidence on the opinion and behaviour of French scientists (senior management level) regarding research data management (RDM).

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to present empirical evidence on the opinion and behaviour of French scientists (senior management level) regarding research data management (RDM).

Design/methodology/approach

The results are part of a nationwide survey on scientific information and documentation with 432 directors of French public research laboratories conducted by the French Research Center CNRS in 2014.

Findings

The paper presents empirical results about data production (types), management (human resources, IT, funding, and standards), data sharing and related needs, and highlights significant disciplinary differences. Also, it appears that RDM and data sharing is not directly correlated with the commitment to open access. Regarding the FAIR data principles, the paper reveals that 68 per cent of all laboratory directors affirm that their data production and management is compliant with at least one of the FAIR principles. But only 26 per cent are compliant with at least three principles, and less than 7 per cent are compliant with all four FAIR criteria, with laboratories in nuclear physics, SSH and earth sciences and astronomy being in advance of other disciplines, especially concerning the findability and the availability of their data output. The paper concludes with comments about research data service development and recommendations for an institutional RDM policy.

Originality/value

For the first time, a nationwide survey was conducted with the senior research management level from all scientific disciplines. Surveys on RDM usually assess individual data behaviours, skills and needs. This survey is different insofar as it addresses institutional and collective data practice. The respondents did not report on their own data behaviours and attitudes but were asked to provide information about their laboratory. The response rate was high (>30 per cent), and the results provide good insight into the real support and uptake of RDM by senior research managers who provide both models (examples for good practice) and opinion leadership.

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Data Technologies and Applications, vol. 52 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 2514-9288

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Publication date: 2 March 2011

Renaud Beaupain, Lei Meng and Marie Marticou

This chapter measures stock market liquidity with three low-frequency liquidity estimators, and investigates the long-term behaviour of commonality in liquidity on the Shanghai…

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This chapter measures stock market liquidity with three low-frequency liquidity estimators, and investigates the long-term behaviour of commonality in liquidity on the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) through principal component analyses and panel regressions. The findings provide strong evidence of liquidity co-movement on the SSE from its inception to the present. The extent of commonality in liquidity varies significantly over time. Remarkably, it surged in 2007, which corresponds to the onset of the subprime mortgage-triggered financial crisis; however, the subsequent behaviour is divergent among our different liquidity proxies.

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The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on Emerging Financial Markets
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-0-85724-754-4

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Publication date: 1 November 2024

Dario Natale Palmucci, Aleksandr Ključnikov and Alberto Ferraris

This article identifies and discusses the most common cognitive biases affecting reviewers and editors when they deal with papers, books or any kind of scientific research/project…

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Purpose

This article identifies and discusses the most common cognitive biases affecting reviewers and editors when they deal with papers, books or any kind of scientific research/project and how they can undermine intellectual capital (IC) in scientific contexts (SCs) as universities and research institutions.

Design/methodology/approach

As we posit that certain biases prevent from publishing original and relevant scientific works, literature research and semi-structured interviews with experts have been conducted to identify these biases undermining IC of SCs.

Findings

This contribution identifies biases undermining IC in SCs distinguishing the ones influencing editors only (representativeness heuristic, group polarization, country/language and affinity bias) and the ones influencing both editors and reviewers (framing and halo effects, overconfidence/overoptimism, confirmation, adjustment, status quo, bias bias and single-action biases). Also, it provides practical examples on how to overcome them.

Research limitations/implications

This work is based on a limited number of interviews (and most of them to researchers of the economic field). Then, future quantitative researches are needed to increase the generalizability of the data. With regard to implications, the results of this study can be adopted by academies and their components in order to preserve their IC and in particular their knowledge-based resources of human capital.

Practical implications

As this piece of research provides practical examples and it concludes with tips that come from scholars’ experience, it is useful for a wide audience of scholars (in particular for less experienced researchers) pursuing scientific career upgrades and for reviewers looking for useful guidelines.

Originality/value

This study offers a more comprehensive analysis on the factors influencing IC of SCs both mixing literature findings with practical experts’ experience and including different areas of knowledge (e.g. behavioral theories on decision making) as scarcely done in previous studies.

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Journal of Intellectual Capital, vol. 26 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1469-1930

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