Talk:Mega journal

Logic
The "definition" section lists as first defining characteristic of a "mega journal": broad coverage of different subject areas. The examples, however, include AIP Advances (physics only), G3 (genetics only -genomics is just a subfield of genetics), and Zootaxa (taxonomy only). That sounds rather contradictory. --Randykitty (talk) 12:17, 30 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Yes, I've always understood megajournal to be partly defined by breadth, e.g. PLOS One or Sage Open. Perhaps we need to be more careful in which journals are included here, because I guess it's better to go with how megajournals are generally defined rather than whether journals self-identify as one. - Lawsonstu (talk) 20:32, 30 September 2014 (UTC)

"Peer reviewed" or "peer viewed"?
For a critical note on the quality of peer review in mega journals, see Mega-Journals and Peer Review: Can Quality and Standards Survive?. --Randykitty (talk) 07:33, 15 April 2015 (UTC)

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Björk B. (2015) Have the “mega-journals” reached the limits to growth? PeerJ 3:e981 https://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.981

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. fgnievinski (talk) 14:37, 10 April 2016 (UTC)

Cell Reports
Cell Reports is not a megajournal, so I have removed it from the list. The founding Editor explicitly says so on the journal's website here:

"Cell Reports is an open access journal that publishes high quality papers. Unlike Scientific Reports we are not a PLoS One clone."

PointOfPresence (talk) 11:17, 6 March 2017 (UTC)

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Recent literature

 * Open-access megajournals lose momentum as the publishing model matures


 * Publishing speed and acceptance rates of open access megajournals


 * Is the soundness-only quality control policy of open access mega journals linked to a higher rate of published errors?


 * Open Access Mega-Journals: Quality, Economics and Post-publication Peer Review Infrastructure


 * Evolution of the scholarly mega-journal, 2006–2017


 * The changed – and changing – landscape of serials publishing: Review of the literature on emerging models


 * The troubles of high-profile open access megajournals


 * The diverse niches of megajournals: Specialism within generalism


 * The Megajournal Lifecycle


 * Characteristics of a Megajournal: A Bibliometric Case Study


 * Open-Access Mega-Journals: A Bibliometric Profile

(For anyone interested in digesting and summarizing them in the Wikipedia article.) fgnievinski (talk) 07:11, 5 September 2020 (UTC)