megajournal
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megajournal (plural megajournals)
- (sciences, publishing) An online academic journal that focuses on publishing articles in large quantities and reduces the role of peer review in article acceptance.
- 2020, Christos Petrou, Guest Post – The Megajournal Lifecycle, in: The Scholarly Kitchen, May 7 2020
- Megajournals are defined as journals that are ‘designed to be much larger than a traditional journal by exercising low selectivity among accepted articles’, meaning that they do not reject articles for lack of novelty or significance as long as they are original and scientifically sound. In addition, they accept articles from more than one discipline, and they are Open Access, typically charging article processing charges (APCs).
- 2020, Christos Petrou, Guest Post – MDPI’s Remarkable Growth, in: The Scholarly Kitchen, August 10 2020
- Earlier this year, I looked at the processing time of three megajournals and a prominent OA portfolio, sampling ~300 papers for each of them. Two of the megajournals took more than 200 days on average from submission to publication.
- 2020, Christos Petrou, Guest Post – The Megajournal Lifecycle, in: The Scholarly Kitchen, May 7 2020