Editors at Informetrics resign at Elsevier and start new journal – ScienceGuide
Big news to start the week:
As more and more editorial boards come into conflict over the open science policies of their journal, one decides to resign and take their expertise elsewere. Today the entire editorial board of the Journal of Informetrics, a major publication in the field of Scientometrics and Informetrics, has unanimously resigned their position. In the future they will dedicate their time to a new full open access journal: Quantitative Science Studies. Robert-Jan Smits: “I hope that this example will inspire many more to follow suit.“
Source: Editors at Informetrics resign at Elsevier and start new journal – ScienceGuide