megajournal
megajournal noun: an online academic journal that focuses on publishing articles in large quantities and reduces the role of peer review in article acceptance.
Noun
megajournal (plural megajournals)
- An online academic journal that focuses on publishing articles in large quantities and reduces the role of peer review in article acceptance.
- 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...2020, Christos Petrou, Guest Post – The Megajournal Lifecycle, in: The Scholarly Kitchen, May 7 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 – MDPI’s Remarkable Growth, in: The Scholarly Kitchen, August 10 2020
Forms of megajournal
| plural | megajournals |
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Origin of megajournal
From mega- + journal.
Questions about megajournal
- What does megajournal mean?
- Megajournal means an online academic journal that focuses on publishing articles in large quantities and reduces the role of peer review in article acceptance.
- What part of speech is megajournal?
- Megajournal is a noun.
- What is the plural of megajournal?
- The plural of megajournal is megajournals.
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