Is Springer Open a good journal?
SpringerOpen journals and books are made freely and permanently available online immediately upon publication. They are subject to high-level peer review, author and production services ensuring quality and reliability of the work.
What is wrong with open access journal?
Open Access Journals Can Have “Iffy” Impact Factors The problem is that it takes time for a journal to build a high Impact Factor. Because many Open Access journals are relatively new, they tend to have lower Impact Factors while they build their article base.
What is Springer Open journal?
SpringerOpen is Springer’s portfolio of fully open access journals and books, covering all areas of science. The entire content published with SpringerOpen is freely accessible online immediately upon publication.
Is Springer Open Scopus indexed?
Most of our journals are also indexed by Scopus. SpringerOpen works closely with discipline-specific indexing services to ensure our journals are widely indexed.
Is Springer Open a publisher?
Publishing with SpringerOpen makes your work freely available online for everyone, immediately upon publication, and our high-level peer-review and production processes guarantee the quality and reliability of the work. Open access books are published by our Springer imprint.
Are open access journals less prestigious?
The myth that open access journals aren’t good quality (or less good than their subscription counterparts) is perhaps down to the emergence of ‘predatory’ or fraudulent journals. These are journals which do not provide the same quality assurance and services delivered by a reputable journal.
Is it worth publishing in open access journals?
Publishing a paper in open access journal is good option for authors because it increases visibility of the paper. Publishing your article in an OA journal means that more people are likely to see it, simply because more people will be able to access it.
What does it mean if a journal is open access?
A publication is defined ‘open access’ when there are no financial, legal or technical barriers to accessing it – that is to say when anyone can read, download, copy, distribute, print, search for and search within the information, or use it in education or in any other way within the legal agreements.
Is Springer better than Elsevier?
Elsevier has a neutral social sentiment, when analyzing social media channels and online mentions. Their current market cap is $47.90B. Springer Nature’s brand is ranked #- in the list of Global Top 1000 Brands, as rated by customers of Springer Nature….Elsevier vs Springer Nature.
| 62% | Promoters |
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| 25% | Passive |
| 13% | Detractors |
Is Springer a reliable source?
Launched in 1996 as a groundbreaking online database of science journals, Springerlink has steadly grown to become one of the world’s largest and most trusted providers of online scientific, technical and medical literature.
Is Springer open a database?
The full text of all SpringerOpen articles is immediately available to all without registration or subscription. This means that search engines such as Google Scholar can index them fully, greatly increasing their visibility.