The record

Resources

Peer-reviewed publications, talks, and press connected to Open Scholar, going back to 2006. A long argument, made in many places.

Publications

2023 González, L. El verdadero coste de los Acuerdos Transformativos. Anales de Química de la RSEQ, 119(4), 298. link ↗
2023 Brembs, B., Huneman, P., Schönbrodt, F., Nilsonne, G., Susi, T., Siems, R., Perakakis, P., Trachana, V., Ma, L., & Rodriguez-Cuadrado, S. Replacing academic journals. Royal Society Open Science, 10(7), 230206. link ↗
2023 Bernal, I., & Perakakis, P. No-pay publishing: use institutional repositories. Nature, 619(7971), 698. link ↗
2018 Bernal, I., & Román-Molina, J. Informe de la encuesta sobre evaluación por pares y el módulo “Open Peer Review” de DIGITAL.CSIC. Oficina Técnica de DIGITAL.CSIC. link ↗
2017 Amigo, I., & Pascual-García, A. Conflicts of interest in scientific publishing. EMBO Reports. link ↗
2017 Perakakis, P., Ponsati, A., Bernal, I., Sierra, C., Osman, N., Mosquera-de-Arancibia, C., & Lorenzo, E. OPRM: Challenges to Including Open Peer Review in Open Access Repositories. Code4Lib, 35. link ↗
2014 Taylor, M., Perakakis, P., Trachana, V., & Gialis, S. Rankings are the sorcerer’s new apprentice. Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics, 13. link ↗
2013 Perakakis, P., & Taylor, M. Academic self-publishing: a not-so-distant future. Prometheus, 31(3), 257–263.
2011 Perakakis, P., Taylor, M., Mazza, G. M., & Trachana, V. Understanding the role of open peer review and dynamic academic articles. Scientometrics, 88(2), 669–673. link ↗
2010 Perakakis, P., Taylor, M., & Trachana, V. The roads to open access. 2010 World Social Science Report. UNESCO Publishing, Paris. link ↗
2010 Perakakis, P., Taylor, M., Mazza, G. M., & Trachana, V. Natural selection of academic papers. Scientometrics, 85(2), 553–559. link ↗
2007 Taylor, M., Perakakis, P., & Trachana, V. The siege of science. Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics, 8(1), 17–40. link ↗
2005 Perakakis, P., Taylor, M., Buela-Casal, G., & Checa, P. A neuro-fuzzy system to calculate a journal internationality index. CEDI Proceedings, Granada. link ↗

Presentations & workshops

2026 The case for open infrastructures in research assessment. Opening talk, EU ERA Forum, European Commission.
2026 Alternative publishing models and evaluation. CSIC Predoctoral Network.
2026 El negocio de la evaluación científica: alternativas desde la comunidad académica y las instituciones. Jornadas de Investigación, Facultad de CC. Políticas y Sociología, UCM, Madrid.
2026 Replacing Academic Journals. University of Montpellier.
2025 Reforma de la evaluación impulsada por CoARA en la UCM. International Open Access Week, UCM Library, Madrid.
2025 El negocio de las editoriales académicas y modelos alternativos. Jornadas de Cultura Laboral en Investigación (DigniMad), Madrid.
2024 Guía del autoestopista hacia la libertad académica. Course on Open Science, SEPNECA/SEPEX/SEPSICOBIO/UAM, Madrid.
2023 DeMéritos de la investigación científica. Round table, Jornada Inter-CRECS, Madrid. · Video ↗
2023 Innovación en prácticas de revisión por pares. Conference on the foundations for the advancement of open science, CSIC, Cuenca.
2023 Innovación en prácticas de revisión por pares. International Open Access Week, REBIUN.
2023 Open Science with public infrastructure. Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. · Video ↗
2022 Ciencia Abierta: el papel de las revistas académicas. Colegio Oficial de Psicólogos de Madrid.
2022 Ciencia abierta y su implicación en la evaluación de la investigación. 44th Congress of the SEBBM, Málaga.
2021 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Academic Publishing. Psychology Department, New York University.
2021 Science Collaboration and Open Science. 1st Crowdfight Symposium on the Science of Collaboration. · Video ↗
2021 ¿Hay vida más allá de las editoriales? Keynote, annual conference of the SEPEX. · Presentation ↗
2019 La crisis de replicabilidad en Psicología: problemática y propuestas. PhD programme, University of Seville.
2017 Open Science: What, Why, How? Hot Topic Lecture, Ghent University, Belgium. · Slides ↗
2017 Why True Science is only Open Science. EURODOC2017, Oslo.
2017 Open Science in an Open World. 2nd Homo scientificus europaeus Meeting, Barcelona.
2016 One damn thing after another: the journal monopoly. GATE CNRS, Lyon.
2016 An Open Peer Review Module for Open Access Repositories. Dublin, Ireland.
2016 Next generation repositories. COAR annual meeting, Vienna. · Video ↗
2016 Presenting the first Open Peer Review Module for Open Access Repositories. CSIC, Madrid.
2016 Open Peer Review workshop. Göttingen University, Germany. · Report ↗
2015 Modelos alternativos de validación y evaluación de la producción académica. University of Granada.
2014 New systems for scientific evaluation, peer-review and open access. CSIC, Madrid, Open Access Week. · Conclusions ↗
2013 Open, Portable, Decoupled — how should peer review change? SpotOn London.
2013 Open Access to Scientific Reviews. European University Institute, Florence, Open Access Week.
2013 Current academic publishing and the LIBRE alternative. CERN Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication (OAI8), Geneva.
2013 Beyond Open Access: facing the real problems. Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich. · Video ↗
2007 How the impact factor power law came to be and the new alternatives. EASE, Barcelona.
2006 Putting the Impact Factor in its Place with a New Approach in Bibliometry. METM, Barcelona.

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