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A leading website that monitored predatory open access journals has closed. This will make it harder to keep tabs on this corrosive force within science.
Poor monitoring in ‘second-tier’ institutions is also part of the problem, research indicates
Glasstree allows academics and their supporting institutions to actually profit from sales of their work.
An author and reviewer in conversation – the road to FAIRness in scientific publishing
Elsevier has announced the acquisition of Plum Analytics from EBSCO Information Services
A new open-access journal that focuses on the importance of public engagement to research has been published.
How to divest from a longstanding print legacy and truly embrace new digital technologies for the dissemination of research output.
Academia.edu, ResearchGate and private publishers all have something in common.
When a new grad student indicates an interest in an academic career, I ask, “So you want to be a Hollywood producer?”
Do journals do a good job of finding appropriate peers to review papers? Are editors always in the best place to decide the fate of a paper based on a severely limited sampling of peer reports?
Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan's $45 billion philanthropy organization is making its first acquisition in order to make it easier for scientists to search, read and tie together more than 26 million science research papers.
How do you know where to publish your research? Can you be sure the publisher you submit to is reputable? Read our guidance on what to look for.
Discussing the Future of Academic Publishing.
A geneticist's decision not to publish his finalized preprint in a journal gets support from scientists online.
Empowering researchers to publish Open Access by bringing transparency to Article Processing Charges.
A popular blog that lists “potential, possible, or probable predatory” publishers and journals has disappeared, but it is not clear why.
Accounting for equity and justice for patients, clinicians, academics, publishers, funders and academic institutions.
Jeffrey Beall’s blog was shut down for an unknown reasons.
The number of predatory publishers is skyrocketing – and they’re eager to pounce on unsuspecting scholars.
The potential advantages and challenges involved in a shift away from for-profit journals in favor of institutional open access publishing.
Some of the major mistakes early career researchers make when preparing and submitting a manuscript to a scientific journal.
Envisioning the scientific paper of the future.
Groups of authors citing each other is becoming an issue in scientific publishing. With a new approach, researchers discuss how to identify the problem.
The world's largest scholarly journal, PLOS ONE, is seeing fewer and fewer researchers publish their work in it as the open-access publishing market evolves.
Highly productive researchers have significantly higher probability to produce top cited papers.
Articles with more narrative abstracts are cited more often.
Publication bias, in which positive results are preferentially reported by authors and published by journals, can restrict the visibility of evidence against false claims and allow such claims to be canonized inappropriately as facts.
Neuroskeptic« No Need To Worry About False Positives in fMRI?What Happens to Rejected Papers?By Neuroskeptic | January 3, 2017 2:43 pm32The pain of rejection is one that every scientist has felt: but what happens to papers after they’re declined by a journal?In a new study, researchers Earnshaw et al. traced the fate of almost 1,000 manuscripts which had been submitted to and rejected by ear, nose and throat journal Clinical Otolaryngology between 2011 to 2013.
