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WEBINAR: Research Publication Practices (Prof Johann Mouton)
Start: 18/08/2021, 10:00
End: 18/08/2021, 12:00
Contact:Whitney Prins -
Location: MS Teams

​Research Publication Practices

You are hereby invited to take part in a special webinar to discuss the on-going threat of predatory journals – how to recognise them; why they are detrimental to science and how to avoid them. As an expert on the topic, Prof Johann Mouton will clarify the definition for predatory journals; how to recognise them and the consequence of predatory publishing for research careers and science in general. In addition, he will also briefly discuss other questionable publication practices that have been found to gain traction in scholarly publishing in South Africa.

Date: 18 August 2021

Time: 10:00 - 12:00

Address: Microsoft Teams

Register: https://bit.ly/2W2PkYb
The MS Teams link will be e-mailed to all registered participants.

 For any enquiries, please contact Whitney Prins at drdcomm@sun.ac.za

 

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Professor Johann Mouton is the director of the DSI-NRF Centre of Excellence for Scientometrics and STI Policy and professor at CREST. He is on the editorial board of five international journals and has authored or co-authored 10 monographs. He has also edited or co-edited 9 books, published 90 articles in peer reviewed journals and chapters in books, written more than 100 contract and technical reports and given more than 200 papers at national and international conferences and seminars. He has presented more than 60 workshops on research methodology, post-graduate supervision and bibliometrics and supervised more than 90 doctoral and master’s students. He has received two prizes from the Academy for Science and Arts in South Africa including one for his contribution to the promotion of research methodology in South Africa. In 2012 he was elected to the Council of the Academy of Science of South Africa. In 2020 he was listed in the second edition of ASSAf’s publication on The legends of South African science.

His current research includes aspects of predatory publishing, funding of science in Africa, the mobility of South African doctoral graduates and the state of knowledge production at South African universities.​