Retractions Are Increasing, but Not Enough
Retraction Watch has witnessed a retraction boom since its founding 12 years ago. But the scientific community must do much more.
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Writing Workshops
The intention of the Writing Workshops is to cultivate professional networks and mentorship and provide access for early career researchers in developing countries to the academic requirements of journals, including international journals, and to equip them with the necessary knowledge and skills to publish in these journals.
One Statistical Analysis Must Not Rule Them All
Any single analysis hides an iceberg of uncertainty. Multi-team analysis can reveal it.
Welcome to Hotel Elsevier: You Can Check-Out Any Time You Like … Not
Welcome to Hotel Elsevier: You Can Check-Out Any Time You Like … Not
Trying to understand what private data Elsevier collects; what private data Elsevier sells; and what to do about it.
Is Infrastructure Consolidation the Next Step? CCC Acquires Ringgold
Is Infrastructure Consolidation the Next Step? CCC Acquires Ringgold
In the light of CCCs acquisition of Ringgold last week, three Chefs, Phill Jones, Roger Schonfeld, and Todd Carpenter reflect on the motivations for the move and its implications for PIDs and organisational identifiers.
The Big Idea: Should We Get Rid of the Scientific Paper?
As a format it's slow, encourages hype, and is difficult to correct. A radical overhaul of publishing could make science better.
Ukrainian Researchers Pressure Journals to Boycott Russian Authors
Most titles are still considering manuscripts irrespective of nationality - but Russia plans to remove a requirement for scientists to publish in foreign titles.
Plan S and Scholarly Publishing: Some Lessons Learned
Review of a webinar featuring several key players in implementing Plan S, asking what lessons have been learned?
For LGBQ Scientists, Being Out Can Mean More Publications
Papers are a key currency for academic careers. LGBQ academic scientists who don’t disclose their sexual orientation in the workplace publish fewer papers than their out or non-LGBQ peers.
Leading Climate Research Publisher Helps Fuel Oil and Gas Drilling
Elsevier's work with fossil fuel companies 'drags us towards disaster', climate researcher says.
The Giant Plan to Track Diversity in Research Journals
Efforts to chart and reduce bias in scholarly publishing will ask authors, reviewers and editors to disclose their race or ethnicity.
The Other Diversity in Scholarly Publishing
After becoming a Scholarly Kitchen Chef back in July 2019, I have never stopped being amazed by the numerous dynamic issues and developments that scholarly publishing is dealing with. As a biologist by training, 'diversity' is the word that comes to mind.
Elsevier's ScienceDirect As Content Supercontinent?
Does today's news of Wiley etc. syndicating to ScienceDirect mean Elsevier is developing a supercontinent to compete with ResearchGate and Google Scholar?
Study Examines Diversity in Research Publishing
Science is often seen as a meritocracy, where the best work rises to the top along with the researchers who shepherd those advances. A new study tests that premise at the intersection of race and gender and finds cracks in that façade.
How Fake Science is Infiltrating Scientific Journals
Perverse incentives in academia and scientific publishing have led to a surge in research fraud.
Market Consolidation and the Demise of the Independently Publishing Research Society
Market Consolidation and the Demise of the Independently Publishing Research Society
The last few years have been a period of rapid market consolidation in scholarly publishing. Here, a look at the ongoing demise of the independent research society publisher, as more and more continue to sign on with larger publishing partners.
What Sci-Hub's Latest Court Battle Means for Research
Delhi court will scrutinize whether the pirate paper website falls foul of India's copyright law. The verdict could have implications for academic publishers further afield.
Research Funders Invest in 'publish, then Review' Model for Science Publishing
Research Funders Invest in 'publish, then Review' Model for Science Publishing
New investment from eLife's funder-partners reflects their commitment to transforming research communication.
What Can We Learn from One Million Open Access Articles?
Springer Nature has published 1,000,000 open access articles. Steven Inchcoombe discusses what they've learned during this process, and what it means for the future of open access.
A Billion-dollar Donation: Estimating the Cost of Researchers' Time Spent on Peer Review
A Billion-dollar Donation: Estimating the Cost of Researchers' Time Spent on Peer Review
By design, our results are very likely to be under-estimates as they reflect only a portion of the total number of journals worldwide. The numbers highlight the enormous amount of work and time that researchers provide to the publication system, and the importance of considering alternative ways of …
Towards Standardizing Plain Language Summaries: The Open Pharma Recommendations
Towards Standardizing Plain Language Summaries: The Open Pharma Recommendations
A look into the value of providing plain language summaries in research papers, and the standards created for doing so.
Building Bridges with the Manuscript Exchange Common Approach (MECA)
Manuscript Exchange Common Approach (MECA) committee members champion the benefits of standardizing the transfer of papers between journals.
The Write Stuff
How to produce a first-class paper that will get published, stand out from the crowd and pull in plenty of readers.
Research That's Not in English Often Goes Unread - Leaving Massive Data Blind Spots
English is the lingua franca of science - but as a result, science published in languages other than English often goes unread.
Transforming the Transformative Agreement
Brigitte Shull from Cambridge University Press looks at the lessons learned so far from transformative agreements and how they continue to evolve.
Revisiting: How Traditional Publishing Works
Revisiting a 2018 primer on the business side of publishing. The defining property of traditional publishing is editorial selection. That is what publishing is about.
Wiley Acquires Editorial Services Group
Scholarly publishing powerhouse purchases editorial services group raising questions about industry comfort with using publisher owned services.
Publication Outperformance Among Global South Researchers: An Analysis of Individual-Level and Publication-Level Predictors of Positive Deviance
Publication Outperformance Among Global South Researchers: An Analysis of Individual-Level and Publication-Level Predictors of Positive Deviance
Research and development are central to economic growth, and a key challenge for countries of the global South is that their research performance lags behind that of the global North. Yet, among Southern researchers, a few significantly outperform their peers and can be styled research "positive deviants" (PDs). This paper asks: who are those PDs, what are their characteristics and how are they able to overcome some of the challenges facing researchers in the global South?
Citation Patterns Between Impact-Factor and Questionable Journals
Citation Patterns Between Impact-Factor and Questionable Journals
One of the most fundamental issues in academia today is understanding the differences between legitimate and questionable publishing. This study's findings show that neither the impact factor of citing journals nor the size of cited journals is a good predictor of the number of citations to the questionable journals.
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