[GOAL] MDPI Now Gives Scholars the Possibility to Endorse and Recommend Articles

Fri Sep 20 12:31:05 BST 2019

Hi Franck,

Many thanks for sharing this announcement.

Will this endorsement feature be available on MDPI's preprints.org too?
Preprints are an output that could really benefit from experimentation with
endorsements and other early indicators of interest or quality.

Is the reader prompted to provide any specific endorsement? For example,
this could be a simple 'like' or a more detailed way for the reader to
express 'I read this and I think it's thorough'. Please provide more
detail. Please could you provide links or screenshots to show this
endorsement feature in action?

Finally, how is this different to Plaudit (https://plaudit.pub/)? This is
an open source web extension that also applies an endorsement to an output
with a DOI using the endorser's ORCID. It's not publisher-specific but can
be used by a single reader across many platforms with scholarly
outputs. *(Disclosure:
I was involved with supporting Plaudit's developer, Vincent, at the
project's earliest stages at the eLife Sprint 2018 and afterwards with
eLife.)*

Many thanks in advance for the extra information.

Best,
Naomi

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> Dear Colleagues,
>
> MDPI is pleased to announce the release of a new functionality giving
> the possibility for researchers and scholars to endorse, and formally
> recommend articles to their colleagues.
>
> MDPI was an early signatory of the San Francisco Declaration on Research
> Assessment (https://sfdora.org/read/) which calls for improvement in how
> quality and impact of scholarly research outputs are evaluated,
> especially in moving beyond journal-based citation metrics (journal
> Impact Factor, Scopus Citescore, etc.).
>
> MDPI supports the establishment of article-level impact metrics,
> including citations, views, downloads, and Altmetric scores. These
> measures serve as an impact indicator for research articles on a
> case?by-case basis, assessing paper on its own merit. However, these
> metrics are also subjective and can give a biased picture of the article
> impact: they do not directly reflect the quality or the intrinsic
> scientific value of the article.
>
> In our view, community engagement with publications based on
> community-driven metrics can help to overcome this limitation. We have
> therefore launched an option for scholars to endorse articles,
> indicating their own assessment of its content and making a
> recommendation to their community. This follows our implementation of
> the open source Hypothesis commenting tool, which has been available for
> all articles published by MDPI for over a year
> (https://www.mdpi.com/about/announcements/1397). Both endorsement and
> commenting are available for all previously published and forthcoming
> MDPI articles.
>
> In addition to potentially serving as a sustainable solution to article
> assessment, endorsements will help scientific communities to identify
> the most relevant articles, independently of the journal in which it was
> published.
>
> The code for the endorsing functionality, which relies on DOIs and
> ORCIDs, will be made available on GitHub with an open source license.
>
> Dr. Shu-Kun Lin, President and Founder
> Dr. Franck Vazquez, Chief Scientific Officer
> Dr. Martyn Rittman, Publishing Director
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