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megajournal

noun

Etymology

From mega- + journal.

  1. derived from diurnālis
  2. derived from jornel — “day”
  3. derived from jurnal — “daily”
  4. inherited from journal
  5. prefixed as megajournal — “mega + journal”

Definitions

  1. An online academic journal that focuses on publishing articles in large quantities and…

    An online academic journal that focuses on publishing articles in large quantities and reduces the role of peer review in article acceptance.

    • Earlier this year, I looked at the processing time of three megajournals and a prominent OA portfolio, sampling ~300 papers for each of them. Two of the megajournals took more than 200 days on average from submission to publication.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for megajournal. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA