Fmenczer

On open access and quality of publication venues

I read that paper, why are you wasting it on Open Access journals? Granted the results are not math heavy, but there is room for higher level mathematical expansion. I can see a clear route through SEM models to better understand the pathway modeling plus SEM models work well in these types of Social Science fields. I could also see it as a Neuro Pathway Modeling problem. Also, you could compare OWS to other social media connections and how they grow. A comparison to political discussion is interesting, but there might be a generalizable model which could be created as to how social media grows out of high density population areas. The paper makes interesting observations, but does not expand on them, such as the user from Kentucky. Can one user be that impactful? The Lit Review needs to be expanded as well. This paper could be so much more. Arzel (talk) 02:53, 27 March 2013 (UTC)

Thank you for the suggestions about the paper. However I am afraid you are misinformed and mistaken about Open-access journals. PLOS ONE is a very high impact journal that happens to be Open Access, and I mentioned a few others (Nature Communications, Nature Scientific Reports, etc). Even the Proc. Natl. Academy of Sciences (PNAS) has open access now. And OA is required by some US federal funding sources (NIH). The publication models (open access or not) are completely orthogonal from measures of quality, as I tried to explain on your user talk page. Now, because OA is getting popular, a bunch of scammers are creating for-profit junk under the disguise of OA, and maybe that has given you the wrong impression that OA=low quality. That is simply false. I am not saying that OA=high quality either. There is plenty of low quality non-OA junk and viceversa. Fmenczer (talk) 04:23, 27 March 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia and copyright

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I am an author of the source paper with permission to reuse my own text, therefore there is no copyright or plagiarism issue. However I rewrote the explanation of the defense paraphrasing the original paper without verbatim quotation. The source was already cited. Thanks. Fmenczer (talk) 23:02, 8 January 2017 (UTC)