Policy changes in Reaction Kinetics, Mechanisms and Catalysis
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Policy changes in Reaction Kinetics, Mechanisms and Catalysis Gábor Lente1 Accepted: 14 September 2020 / Published online: 17 September 2020 © Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, Hungary 2020
This past summer brought significant changes in the general policies of our international publisher, Springer Nature. In this editorial, I wish to inform the readers of those that are directly relevant to Reaction Kinetics, Mechanisms and Catalysis. Springer Nature has become a signatory to the Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) [1], which recognizes the need to improve the ways in which the outputs of scholarly research are evaluated. Since the initiation of this declaration in 2012 during the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology in San Francisco, it has become a worldwide initiative covering all scholarly disciplines and all key stakeholders including funders, publishers, professional societies, institutions, and researchers. Several funding institutions now ask the universities and other research institutions which employ the researchers they fund to embrace the principles of DORA. From now on, Springer Nature as a publisher will provide all necessary metrics and support to ensure that this journal is DORA-compliant. The editors will adhere to the DORA principles by making sure to not equate or assess research quality based on individual journal metrics. There is a major shift in policies toward preprints, which are defined as an author’s version of a research manuscript prior to formal peer review at a journal, and deposited on a public server. The widespread use of preprints, long established in some disciplines, have become an important way for researchers to share their works prior to or while under formal peer review at a journal. Preprints offer many benefits for the research community from providing free and rapid access to research findings to allowing researchers to claim priority for discovery, show evidence of progress for research assessment purposes, get community input on their work, and reap the benefits of early access to their research including accrual of citations and increased visibility. As a Springer Nature journal, we will be encouraging preprint sharing in the future. The following are the key aspects:
* Gábor Lente [email protected] 1
Editorial Office, Reaction Kinetics, Mechanisms and Catalysis, Department of General and Physical Chemistry, University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary
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