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Inside Beall’s lists
Macháček, Vít ; Srholec, Martin
The analysis confirms that the vast majority of journals implicated on Beall’s lists are scholarly marginal and often quite weird, which gives credibility to the suspicion that they are using non-standard editorial practices. Academics, who are concerned about their professional reputation, should better stay away from them. However, there are also enlisted journals that may not be predatory in the true sense. In particular, the list of publishers contains two important entries, namely Frontiers and Impact Journals, the accusation of which being predatory appears to be questionable. Relatively high citation impact scores coupled with large shares of authors from advanced countries in journals under these publishing houses vindicates the controversy. Jeffrey Beall in these verdicts challenges opinion of hundreds if not thousands researchers worldwide, who apparently read and quite frequently cite results reported in these journals.
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The impact of motherhood on retirement benefits
Šatava, Jiří
In our analysis, we have attempted to quantify the negative impact of motherhood and parenthood on women’s retirement benefit amount, which is linked to the impact of motherhood on the mothers’ wages and employment. We have calculated that motherhood and parenthood reduces women’s retirement benefits by an average of several hundred Czech crowns per month. This is caused both by lower employment and lower earnings due to parenthood. However, the average reduction in women’s retirement benefits due to parenthood never exceeds 8 percent, even if the impact of parenthood on women’s career were twice that shown in the data.
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Predatory journals in Scopus
Macháček, Vít ; Srholec, Martin
The study maps the penetration of so-called “predatory” scholarly journals into the citation database Scopus. Predatory journals exploit the author pays open access model, and conduct only cursory or no peer review, despite claims to the contrary. Some such journals will publish almost anything for money. In the Czech context whether a journal is indexed in Scopus is crucial for determining the points that publications in that journal are awarded in the national performance-based evaluation of research organizations, which in turn is the basis for the allocation of institutional funding. Hence, in this evaluation framework, publishing in predatory journals that are indexed in Scopus has a clear “fiscal” advantage.
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80% reduction of greenhouse gas emissions: analysis of czech energy industry development until 2050
Rečka, Lukáš
The goal of European Union’s Energy Roadmap 2050 is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) by 80% compared with the baseline of 1990. The presented paper evaluates the implications of several pathways to reach this goal, and compares them to the existing State Energy Policy, which may lead to a reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by 66.5%. Using the TIMES energy partial equilibrium model, we analyse the reference scenario based in the existing State Energy Policy (SEK) and three alternative low-emission scenarios that will reach the 80% GHG emission reduction target by 2050, which follow three different pathways of the nuclear energy developments (N35, N45 and N-opt). In all the scenarios, the resulting technology and fuel mix is a product of total production costs minimisation, with respect to the exogenous technological constraints. The cost minimization does not include any external costs of energy transformation, and, therefore, cannot be taken as social optimum considering all costs and benefits associated with energy transformation.
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Knowledge transfer through academic entrepreneurship in the Czech Republic
Macháček, Vít ; Srholec, Martin
The study brings first quantitative evidence on the scale and scope of knowledge transfer through academic entrepreneurship in the Czech Republic. The main finding is that Czech academics do not shy away from taking on entrepreneurial opportunities. Admittedly, this is in a sharp contrast with the image of weak entrepreneurial spirit in academia that prevails in general public based on statistics showing low payments of business enterprises for contractual research and licensing fees to research organizations. The results are discussed with regards to implications for public policy.
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A global comparison of Czech and Slovak academic journals based on their Impact Factor (IF) and Article Influence Score (AIS)
Münich, Daniel ; Škoda, Samuel
We compare the scores in the widely used citation index of academic journals known as Impact Factor (IF) with the lesser known but more sophisticated index Article Influence Score (AIS). There is a positive correlation between the relative IF and AIS scores within fields, but the spread is quite high. The difference between the IF and AIS scores is caused by differences in the extent of journal self-citation and in the academic importance of the journals from which journal articles are cited. Czech publication output in relatively major journals tends to be concentrated in journals with a lower AIS than IF. These articles also tend to be concentrated in a rather small number of international journals. In many fields, Czech publication output is concentrated in Czech and Slovak journals, most of which have relatively low AIS and IF. The IF and AIS of some Czech journals are entirely outside the natural range of scores worldwide.
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