Open Access Journals have become more and more popular as a publishing model for academic scholars. There are already more than 3,500 of them listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). To establish these journals as a relevant and trustful source for validated research results (and...

In den Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften nehmen empirische Untersuchungen an Bedeutung zu. Dies schlägt sich auch in einer steigenden Anzahl von entsprechenden Beiträgen in Fachzeitschriften nieder, bei denen Autoren1 eigene Forschungsdaten erhoben oder externe Datensätze verarbeitet...

Open Access Journals have become more and more popular as a publishing model for academic scholars. There are already more than 3,500 of them listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). To establish these journals as a relevant and trustful source for validated research results (and...