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Pensoft Publishers and the Southern eDNA Society join forces to advance eDNA research

The partnership aims to accelerate the development and application of eDNA technology and increase the visibility and impact of eDNA research.

Pensoft Publishers, a leading open-access publisher of scientific journals, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Southern eDNA Society (SeDNAs) to foster collaboration and knowledge sharing in the field of environmental DNA (eDNA) research. By working together, the two organisations aim to accelerate the development and application of eDNA technology, ultimately contributing to a better understanding and conservation of our planet’s biodiversity.

The Southern eDNA Society is a recently established organisation of about 200 members that aims to facilitate communication, collaboration and knowledge transfer in the rapidly developing field of eDNA.

Pensoft is an innovative scholarly publisher of over 35 open-access, peer-reviewed journals across various disciplines, including the highly regarded Metabarcoding and Metagenomics (MBMG) journal. 

Featuring research on metabarcoding and metagenomics from both basic and applied perspectives, MBMG has a CiteScore of 5.4 and is indexed in Web of Science and Scopus. The journal is published on Pensoft’s end-to-end scholarly publishing platform ARPHA.

New open-access journal Metabarcoding & Metagenomics joins the lines of publisher Pensoft

The partnership will focus on enhancing the publication and dissemination of eDNA research, and increasing the visibility and impact of eDNA research, including by promoting eDNA conferences hosted by SeDNAs and research outputs from the eDNA community.

The Southern eDNA Society is excited to partner with the MBMG journal to advance our shared commitment to innovation, accessibility, and excellence in eDNA science. The exclusive discounted publication opportunities for SeDNAs members will help amplify their contributions to the global eDNA community.

Anastasija Zaiko, President of SeDNAs

To this end, both organisations will cross-promote each other’s activities, reaching a wider audience and fostering greater engagement within the eDNA community. Pensoft plans to support the dissemination of research presented at SeDNAs conferences, with the possibility of publishing special issues or topical collections in MBMG.

In addition, SeDNA members will receive a special discount on article processing charges in MBMG, which will hopefully encourage them to publish their work in the innovative open-access journal.

This memorandum of understanding builds upon a shared vision of advancing eDNA research and making scientific knowledge openly accessible. Pensoft has always expressed a commitment for open science and technological advancement and we are happy that we can take this step to support the growth and dissemination of eDNA science.

Prof. Lyubomir Penev, founder and CEO of Pensoft

The partnership between Pensoft, MBMG and SeDNAs is not the first of its kind for the scholarly publisher. Recently, another journal launched and published by Pensoft, Nature Conservation, used a similar memorandum to strengthen the collaboration between the publisher and the Infrastructure & Ecology Network Europe (IENE). IENE has so far published several special issues of research papers based on scientific work presented at the network’s conferences in Nature Conservation, with the most recent example, a collection of articles associated with the IENE 2022 International Conference, dating from last month. 

Pensoft collaborates with R Discovery to elevate research discoverability

Pensoft and R Discovery’s innovative connection aims to change the way researchers find academic articles.

Leading scholarly publisher Pensoft has announced a strategic collaboration with R Discovery, the AI-powered research discovery platform by Cactus Communications, a renowned science communications and technology company. This partnership aims to revolutionize the accessibility and discoverability of research articles published by Pensoft, making them more readily available on R Discovery to its over three million researchers across the globe.

R Discovery, acclaimed for its advanced algorithms and an extensive database boasting over 120 million scholarly articles, empowers researchers with intelligent search capabilities and personalized recommendations. Through its innovative Reading Feed feature, R Discovery delivers tailored suggestions in a format reminiscent of social media, identifying articles based on individual research interests. This not only saves time but also keeps researchers updated with the latest and most relevant studies in their field.

Open Science is much more than cost-free access to research output.

Lyubomir Penev

One of R Discovery’s standout features is its ability to provide paper summaries, audio readings, and language translation, enabling users to quickly assess a paper’s relevance and enhance their research reading experience significantly.

With over 2.5 million app downloads and upwards of 80 million journal articles featured, the R Discovery database is one of the largest scholarly content repositories.

“At Pensoft, we do realise that Open Science is much more than cost-free access to research outputs. It is also about easier discoverability and reusability, or, in other words, how likely it is for the reader to come across a particular scientific publication and, as a result, cite and build on those findings in his/her own studies. By feeding the content of our journals into R Discovery, we’re further facilitating the discoverability of the research done and shared by the authors who trust us with their work,” said ARPHA’s and Pensoft’s founder and CEO Prof. Lyubomir Penev.

Abhishek Goel, Co-Founder and CEO of Cactus Communications, commented on the collaboration, “We are delighted to work with Pensoft and offer researchers easy access to the publisher’s high-quality research articles on R Discovery. This is a milestone in our quest to support academia in advancing open science that can help researchers improve the world.”

So far, R Discovery has successfully established partnership with over 20 publishers, enhancing the platform’s extensive repository of scholarly content. By joining forces with R Discovery, Pensoft solidifies its dedication to making scholarly publications from its open-access, peer-reviewed journal portfolio easily discoverable and accessible.

Journal platform ARPHA partners with Dimensions to deliver extra citation data and insight

Citation count per individual publication is only a part of the useful and comprehensive data freely available for any articles published in a journal hosted on the ARPHA Platform, thanks to a new integration of the recently launched Dimensions badges.

The badges, which provide a citation count and further context on when and where an item was cited, further enhance the familiar citation insights already available from ARPHA. These include a current list of all papers referencing a particular article straight from major databases Crossref, Google Scholar, Scopus and PubMed Central.

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To provide an additional in-depth insight into a paper’s impact, while placing it into a relevant context, Dimensions searches through over 90 million publications, and 873 million citations indexed in its own massive database. Going beyond the conventional research article, the tool also provides links to related grants, clinical trials, patents and policy documents.

A single click on the Metrics tab within the menu of any article in an ARPHA-published journal reveals the new eye-catching Dimensions badge, where it appears beneath the popular colourful “donut” of Altmetric – another research analytics innovation developed by Digital Science.dimensions blog 1

At a glance, the visitor can see the total and recent (from the last two calendar years) count of citations, in addition to the Field Citation Ratio and Relative Citation Ratio – designed to help users see how the article compares in a given field.

In a useful information page, the Dimensions team explains what these values stand for. For example, an article with a Citation Ratio of 0.8 has a count of citations considered as average for its subject area. The 1.2 is the watershed, beyond which a publication is deemed highly cited. Once at the 5-point mark, the number of citations is to be read as extremely high.

A second click on the badge brings up the Dimensions Details Page, where the reader can find a new set of citation data, including an interlinked list of the publications that have cited the paper, as well as their distribution over time and across research categories.

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“There is no doubt that citation count and real-time, real-life impact within both the scientific community and the public space are essential for any scientist,” said ARPHA’s founder and CEO Prof. Lyubomir Penev. “In this sense, analytical and user-friendly tools, such as Dimensions and Altmetric, come to bridge a crucial gap – one which could easily make-or-break a researcher’s career and image in academia.”

“I am pleased to ensure that any author who has ever published with our journals can easily and openly track and demonstrate the actual performance of their work,” he added.

Christian Herzog, who led the Dimensions project at Digital Science, said “The Dimensions badges were developed to aid the research community in assessing and contextualizing publications. We’re happy to partner with ARPHA and contribute additional value to their platform.”

Learn about the partnership between ARPHA and Altmetric here.