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Gatekeepers of Trust: Reaffirming the Publisher's Role in Service of the Reader
Gatekeepers of Trust: Reaffirming the Publisher's Role in Service of the Reader
Five Trends In The Publishers-Sustainability Nexus
Five developments that illustrate how the relationship between sustainability and scholarly publishers is changing over time.
Tackling Science's 'Nasty Photoshop Problem'
20,000 Scientists Publish at Unrealistic Rates
Analysis finds ‘implausibly high’ numbers of papers from many top scientists.
Move Beyond 'Publish or Perish' by Measuring Behaviours That Benefit Academia
Move Beyond 'Publish or Perish' by Measuring Behaviours That Benefit Academia
Pioneering Journal ELife Faces Major Test After Loss of Impact Factor
"Systematic Reviews" That Aim to Extract Broad Conclusions from Many Studies are in Peril
"Systematic Reviews" That Aim to Extract Broad Conclusions from Many Studies are in Peril
Fake papers are “poisoning the well” for these gold-standard syntheses, researchers say.
ELife Won't Get an Impact Factor, Says Clarivate
Clarivate has decided to continue indexing some content from eLife in Web of Science.
Preprints at a Crossroads - Are We Compromising Openness for Credibility?
Bringing together a range of studies into various aspects of how preprints interact with the wider information ecosystem, Natascha Chtena, Juan Pablo Alperin, and Alice Fleerackers argue that the speed, accessibility and low barriers to entry that preprints offer to scholarly communication risk being undermined by attempts to make them more aligned to traditional academic publications.
eLife to Lose Impact Factor Due to Peer Review Change
Journal’s policy of publishing all reviewed submissions irrespective of quality conflicts with citation metric’s rules.
Journals with High Rates of Suspicious Papers Flagged by Science-integrity Start-up
Journals with High Rates of Suspicious Papers Flagged by Science-integrity Start-up
6 Major Academic Publishers Face Antitrust Lawsuit
Cash for Catching Scientific Errors
These AI Firms Publish the World's Most Highly Cited Work
So You Got a Null Result. Will Anyone Publish It?
The Misplaced Incentives in Academic Publishing
Scientists who spend time peer-reviewing manuscripts don't get rewarded for their efforts. It's time to change that.
Associate Editors: Please Jump in the Mosh Pit
Putting China’s science surge in proper perspective
Reports of China’s rising scientific dominance over the US and West should be taken with a big grain of salt.
Biomedical Paper Retractions Have Quadrupled in 20 Years - Why?
What Can Be Done About Scholarly Communication's Diversity Problem?
Drawing on findings from a new survey of equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging policies in European academic publishing, Lynne Bowker, Mikael Laakso, Janne Pölönen, and Claire Redhead outline the intersectional nature of scholarly communication’s diversity challenge and present new resources for actors across the system to implement changes.
Scientists Urged to Collect Royalties from the 'Magic Money Tree'
Wiley announces pilot of new AI-powered Papermill Detection service
From the London Book Fair, Wiley today unveiled plans for its new AI-powered Papermill Detection service.
More than 2 Million Research Papers have Disappeared from the Internet
eLife Introduces the Global South Committee for Open Science
New model aims to learn directly from peers in the Global South on how best to promote equitable collaboration and inclusion in scientific publishing.
High-profile Effort to Tackle Academia's Fake-paper Problem
Open Access Research Outputs Receive More Diverse Citations
The goal of open access is to allow more people to read and use research outputs. An observed association between highly cited research outputs and open access has been claimed as evidence of increased usage of the research, but this remains controversial.
Surge in Number of 'Extremely Productive' Authors Concerns Scientists
Female Researchers Are Less Influenced by Journal Prestige - Will It Hold Back Their Careers?
Female Researchers Are Less Influenced by Journal Prestige - Will It Hold Back Their Careers?
Drawing on a natural experiment that occurred when German institutions lost access to journals published by Elsevier, W. Benedikt Schmal shows how female researchers made significantly different publication choices to their male counterparts during this period.