Terminology of Academic Publishing, Open Access and Impact
Altmetrics | Non-traditional metrics for scholarly outputs designed to measure research impact other than citation metrics. Examples include views, downloads, bookmarks, shares, social and news media mentions. |
Article processing charge | A fee charged to the author, or author's institution, to facilitate Gold Open Access. |
Bibliometrics | Statistical analysis of written publications to determine patterns of authorship, publication and use. Examples include citation impact metrics and the h-index. For more information and a guide to bibliometrics, see the Research Metrics guide |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | A persistent identifier usually a string of numbers and/or letters added to digital publications. DOIs are an internationally recognised standard for preserving and referencing online material. |
Creative Commons (CC) License | A form of public copyright license that enables the free distribution of an otherwise copyrighted work. A CC license is used to give people the right to share, use and build upon an output. For examples of the types of CC license, see the Creative Commons website. |
Open Access (Green) | An output is published behind a subscription pay-wall with distribution rights belonging to the publisher. The preprint or author accepted manuscript is made available via a repository and/or academic social networking site and embargoed according to the terms of the publisher-author agreement. |
Open Access (Gold) | An output is published open access on a publisher website or platform which the author or author's institution has paid an article processing charge to allow for. The published output is often published with a Creative Commons License stating the re-use and sharing allowances. |
Open Access (Diamond) | An output is published open access on the publisher website, which the publisher has not charged the author or author's institution for. The published output is often published with a Creative Commons License stating the re-use and sharing allowances. |
Peer-review (Double blind) |
The names of both reviewer and author are anonymised. Pros and cons of Double blind review can be found on the Elsevier website, What is peer review? |
Peer-review (Open review) |
The names of both reviewer and author are known to each other. Pros and cons of Open review can be found on the Elsevier website, What is peer review? |
Peer-review (Single blind) |
The names of the reviewers are hidden from the author. This is the traditional method of peer-review. Pros and cons of Single blind review can be found on the Elsevier website, What is peer review? |
Peer-review (Transparent review) |
Contributions from the reviewer are made publicly available alongside the published article. Pros and cons of Transparent review can be found on the Elsevier website, What is peer review? |