Talk:Mega journal

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The "definition" section lists as first defining characteristic of a "mega journal": broad coverage of different subject areas. The examples, however, include AIP Advances (physics only), G3 (genetics only -genomics is just a subfield of genetics), and Zootaxa (taxonomy only). That sounds rather contradictory. --Randykitty (talk) 12:17, 30 September 2014 (UTC)

Yes, I've always understood megajournal to be partly defined by breadth, e.g. PLOS One or Sage Open. Perhaps we need to be more careful in which journals are included here, because I guess it's better to go with how megajournals are generally defined rather than whether journals self-identify as one. - Lawsonstu (talk) 20:32, 30 September 2014 (UTC)

"Peer reviewed" or "peer viewed"?

For a critical note on the quality of peer review in mega journals, see Mega-Journals and Peer Review: Can Quality and Standards Survive?. --Randykitty (talk) 07:33, 15 April 2015 (UTC)

This Wikipedia article cited in PeerJ article

Björk B. (2015) Have the “mega-journals” reached the limits to growth? PeerJ 3:e981 https://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.981

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[1]. fgnievinski (talk) 14:37, 10 April 2016 (UTC)

Cell Reports

Cell Reports is not a megajournal, so I have removed it from the list. The founding Editor explicitly says so on the journal's website here:

"Cell Reports is an open access journal that publishes high quality papers. Unlike Scientific Reports we are not a PLoS One clone."

PointOfPresence (talk) 11:17, 6 March 2017 (UTC)

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Recent literature

• Open-access megajournals lose momentum as the publishing model matures

• Publishing speed and acceptance rates of open access megajournals

• Is the soundness-only quality control policy of open access mega journals linked to a higher rate of published errors?

• Open Access Mega-Journals: Quality, Economics and Post-publication Peer Review Infrastructure

• Evolution of the scholarly mega-journal, 2006–2017

• The changed – and changing – landscape of serials publishing: Review of the literature on emerging models

• The troubles of high-profile open access megajournals

• The diverse niches of megajournals: Specialism within generalism

• The Megajournal Lifecycle

• Characteristics of a Megajournal: A Bibliometric Case Study

• Open-Access Mega-Journals: A Bibliometric Profile

(For anyone interested in digesting and summarizing them in the Wikipedia article.) fgnievinski (talk) 07:11, 5 September 2020 (UTC)