Quantitative Science Studies (QSS), the official journal of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI), is a gold open access journal. All articles published in the journal are openly accessible for readers. To cover the cost of running the journal, authors of articles published in QSS are requested to pay an article processing charge (APC). When QSS was established in 2019, ISSI and MIT Press, the publisher of QSS, agreed to set the APC to USD 600 for ISSI members and ... Read more >

In August 2020 Quantitative Science Studies (QSS) started a transparent peer review pilot, in close collaboration with our publisher, MIT Press. For articles accepted for publication in QSS, the review reports, along with the responses of the authors and the decision letters of the editor, were published in Publons, provided that the authors agreed to participate in the pilot. Reviewer identities were not revealed, unless reviewers preferred to give up their anonymity. By publishing review repo... Read more >