Abdullah Abrizah

Biographic Data

ID6701628
NAMEAbdullah Abrizah
GIVEN NAMESAbdullah
FAMILY NAMEAbrizah
SIGNATUREABRIZAH A
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Malaya
ORCID0000-0002-8224-5268
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS3
WORKS AS AUTHOR9
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX1

  • Never mind predatory publishers… what about ‘grey’ publishers

    Open AccessDiana Nicholas, Eti Herman et al.ARTICLEEl Profesional de la Informacion2023

    The Harbingers project, which studied the working lives and scholarly communication behaviour of early career researchers (ECRs) over 6 years, found evidence of changing attitudes to questionable (grey) publishing. Thus, whilst predatory publishers have come to be treated with equanimity, as a problem easily dealt with, there was growing concern with the high volume of low-grade research being generated, some of which by ‘grey’ open access publis…

  • Peer review

    Open AccessDiana Nicholas, Eti Herman et al.ARTICLEEl Profesional de la Informacion2023References: 1

    Explores science and social science early career researchers’ (ECRs) perceptions and experiences of peer review, seeking also to identify their views of any pandemic-associated changes that have taken place. Data are drawn from the Harbingers-2 project, which investigated the impact of the pandemic on scholarly communications. Peer review, one of the activities covered, is singled out as it proved to be the activity of greatest concern to ECRs. F…

  • Early career researchers and predatory journals during the Covid-19 pandemic. An international analysis

    Open AccessDiana Nicholas, Blanca Rodríguez Bravo et al.ARTICLEEl Profesional de la Informacion2023Cited by: 1

    Around 170 early career researchers (ECRs) from 8 countries were interviewed about the whole range of their scholarly communication attitudes/behaviours during pandemic times and this paper analyses what they said about predatory journals in a wide range of scholarly communication contexts. Because of the delicacy of the topic there was just one question exclusively directed at predatory journals, which asked about policies rather than actions, w…

  • Researching women and men 1996–2020

    Open AccessMike Thelwall, Abdullah Abrizah et al.ARTICLEQuantitative Science Studies2022

    This article assesses the balance of research concerning women and men over the past quarter century using the crude heuristic of counting Scopus-indexed journal articles relating to women or men, as suggested by their titles or abstracts. A manual checking procedure together with a word-based heuristic was used to identify whether an article related to women or men. The heuristic includes explicit mentions of women and men, implicit mentions, an…

  • Early career researchers in the pandemic-fashioned ‘new scholarly normality’

    Open AccessDiana Nicholas, Eti Herman et al.ARTICLEEl Profesional de la Informacion2022References: 3

    After two-years of repeat interviewing around 170 early career science/social science researchers from China, France, Malaysia, Poland, Russia, Spain, UK and US about their work life and scholarly communications in pandemic-times, the Harbingers project is now in possession of a mountain of data on what constitutes a very important academic topic. The purpose of the paper is to share the early highlights of the data, with a focus on the main and …

  • Early career researchers in the pandemic-fashioned ‘new scholarly normality’

    Open AccessDiana Nicholas, Eti Herman et al.ARTICLEEl Profesional de la Informacion2022

    After two-years of talking to around 170 early career science/social science researchers from China, France, Malaysia, Poland, Russia, Spain, UK and US about their work life and scholarly communications during the pandemic, the Harbingers-2 project is in possession of a mountain of verbatim data. The purpose of this paper is to highlight the kinds of comments ECRs are raising, with a focus on those that provide a particular interesting and illumi…

  • Critical success factors for digital library implementation in Africa

    Open AccessFeria Wirba Singeh, Abdullah Abrizah et al.ARTICLEInformation Development2021

    Digital libraries continue to be an important source for indigenous content and research output in developing countries, especially in the context where traditional distribution mechanisms failed. It is therefore useful for continual research to maintain and enhance our standing on the topic and to improve ways of making digital libraries more usable and sustainable to the user community. It is with this effect that this study on the success fact…

  • The impact of the pandemic on early career researchers

    Open AccessEti Herman, Diana Nicholas et al.ARTICLEEl Profesional de la Informacion2021Cited by: 2References: 5

    In order to take account of the impact of the pandemic on the already changing scholarly communications and work-life of early career researchers (ECRs), the 4-year long Harbingers study was extended for another two years. As a precursor to the study (featuring interviews and a questionnaire survey), currently underway, an analytic review of the pertinent literature was undertaken and its results are presented here. The review focuses on the chal…

  • How is open access publishing going down with early career researchers? An international, multi-disciplinary study

    Open AccessDiana Nicholas, Hamid R Jamali et al.ARTICLEEl Profesional de la Informacion2020References: 7

    This study explores early career researchers’ (ECRs) appreciation and utilisation of open access (OA) publishing. The evidence reported here results from a questionnaire-based international survey with 1600 participants, which forms the second leg and final year of a four year long, mixed methods, longitudinal study that sought to discover whether ECRs will be the harbingers of change when it comes to scholarly communications. Proceeding from the…