Corporate annual reports (CARs) are the subject of research emanating from different disciplines. A growing body of literature addresses their purpose, design, content and interpretation, as well as reasons for their changing content. This paper reviews examines (mainly post-1990) English-language, academic and practitioner literature analysing or commenting on CARs. The literature is examined ...

Many open access journals have a reputation for being of low quality and being dishonest with regard to peer review and publishing costs. Such journals are labeled “predatory” journals. This study examines author profiles for some of these “predatory” journals as well as for groups of more well-recognized open access journals. We collect and analyze the publication record, citation count, and g...

We demonstrate a comprehensive framework that accounts for citation dynamics of scientific papers and for the age distribution of references. We show that citation dynamics of scientific papers is nonlinear and this nonlinearity has far-reaching consequences, such as diverging citation distributions and runaway papers. We propose a nonlinear stochastic dynamic model of citation dynamics based o...

Delayed open access (OA) refers to scholarly articles in subscription journals made available openly on the web directly through the publisher at the expiry of a set embargo period. Though a substantial number of journals have practiced delayed OA since they started publishing e-versions, empirical studies concerning open access have often overlooked this body of literature. This study provides...

This paper explores a new indicator of journal citation impact, denoted as source normalized impact per paper (SNIP). It measures a journal’s contextual citation impact, taking into account characteristics of its properly defined subject field, especially the frequency at which authors cite other papers in their reference lists, the rapidity of maturing of citation impact, and the extent to whi...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to update a global ranking of knowledge management and intellectual capital (KM/IC) academic journals. Design/methodology/approach – Two different approaches were utilized: a survey of 379 active KM/IC researchers; and the journal citation impact method. Scores produced by the application of these methods were combined to develop the final ranking. Finding...

There is significant evidence of variation in the penalties awarded in cases of plagiarism across the higher education sector, which has led to calls for standardisation of treatment. In this context, the annual reports of the Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education (OIA) in the UK have identified increases in the numbers of complaints pertaining to judgements of academic mis...

This paper describes the results of an investigation into requirements discovery during testing and operations. Requirements discovery includes both new requirements and new knowledge regarding existing requirements. Analysis of anomaly reports shows that many of the anomalies that occur during these phases involve requirements discovery. Previous work by the authors ident@ed four common mechan...

Using three years of the Journal Citation Reports (2011, 2012, and 2013), indicators of change are developed involving only changes of more than one standard deviation above average. Two forms of change are distinguished: monotonic increases or decreases of citation intensity (cited or citing) and critical revisions of the a posteriori (2013) prediction in 2012 on the basis of 2011 data. Change...