3 papers
cs.DL2025
Have we reached the beginning of the end for review papers?
Barry Smyth, Padraig Cunningham
Review papers have traditionally enjoyed a high status in academic publishing because of the important role they can play in summarising and synthesising a field of research. They…
cs.DL2025
Shifting norms in scholarly publications: trends in readability, objectivity, authorship, and AI use
Padraig Cunningham, Padhraic Smyth, Barry Smyth
Academic and scientific publishing practices have changed significantly in recent years. This paper presents an analysis of 17 million research papers published since 2000 to explo…
cs.DL2024
An Analysis of the Impact of Gold Open Access Publications in Computer Science
Padraig Cunningham, Barry Smyth
There has been some concern about the impact of predatory publishers on scientific research for some time. Recently, publishers that might previously have been considered `predator…