Pop-up Journals for Policy Research: Can Temporary Titles Deliver Answers?
Journals that focus on specific research questions could help to bridge the science-policy gap, if they can attract researchers.
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Diamond Open Access Needs Institutions, Not Heroes
What would it mean to support community-led publishing as infrastructure, rather than as a collection of heroic individual efforts?
Women’s Research Papers Spend Longer Under Peer Review Than Men’s
Women’s Research Papers Spend Longer Under Peer Review Than Men’s
A study of millions of life science papers revealed that manuscripts with women in key authorship roles spent longer between submission and acceptance.
University Journal Publishers - Global, Messy and Underestimated
Despite being systematically underestimated university presses are a widespread and structurally significant part of the journal publishing landscape.
So... IS the Essence of a Journal Portable? Checking in on NeuroImage and Imaging Neuroscience
So... IS the Essence of a Journal Portable? Checking in on NeuroImage and Imaging Neuroscience
How are two competing neuroscience journals faring since the editorial board of one departed to create the other?
Covid Prompted New Ways to Publish Research - It's Time to Embrace Them
Covid Prompted New Ways to Publish Research - It's Time to Embrace Them
The pandemic showed the benefits of a system based around reviewing preprints. Why was eLife the only journal to respond, asks Damian Pattinson.
What We Lose when We Outsource Scientific Writing
Writing is often said to be thinking. Based on a study of scientific writing practices, this post analyses what is lost when academic writing is outsourced.
Why Write a Literature Review if AI Can Do It for You?
The potential for AI tool to assess and organise research literature presents an opportunity to rethink why they are undertaken in the first place.
We Need to Move Beyond the Accept/Reject Binary in Peer Review
Binary reject/accept peer review has become conflated with validation. The authors outline three myths sustaining this confusion and how we might escape it.
‘A bombshell’: doubt cast on discovery of microplastics throughout human body
‘A bombshell’: doubt cast on discovery of microplastics throughout human body
Some scientists say many detections are most likely error, with one high-profile study called a ‘joke’.
Why is Research Led by Women Retracted Less Frequently?
A recent study found research by women had fewer retractions. Are women betters researchers, or does the finding reflect wider structural issues?
When Science Discourages Correction: How Publishers Profit from Mistakes
Academic publishing system often allows scientific errors to persist because it prioritises profit and prestige over timely correction.
Northwestern to Pay $2.3 Million for Falsified Research in NIH Grants
Northwestern to Pay $2.3 Million for Falsified Research in NIH Grants
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine A researcher accused of falsifying research in work funded by the National Institutes of Health has cost Northwestern University $2.3 million.
The next frontier for public access: building channels of meaning
Open access has expanded research visibility, but rising information overload, fragile trust, and uneven credibility signals show that access alone isn’t enough. The next chapter must focus on transparency and trust.
The 5 Stages of the ‘Enshittification’ of Academic Publishing
"Enshittification" isn’t just confined to the online world. In fact, it’s now visible in academic publishing and occurs in five stages. The same forces that hollow out digital platforms are shaping how a lot of research is produced, reviewed and published.
In Scientific Publishing, Who Should Foot the Bill?
Publishers often charge authors to publish their publicly-funded research. Will a federal crackdown make a difference?
Funding Agencies Can End Profit-first Science Publishing
Funding Agencies Can End Profit-first Science Publishing
The current relationship between researchers, funders and commercial publishers has created a “drain” – depriving the research system of money, time, trust and control.
How English-Centric Metrics Distort Global Scientific Productivity
New research shows how language and income shape who gets credited for scientific output-and why women and non-native English speakers face persistent gaps.
Few women named as authors on retracted medical studies, analysis shows
Scientific Fraud: Analysis of a Growing Phenomenon
Scientific fraud: analysis of a growing phenomenon - Read the column on Polytechnique Insights
Fake Publishing - the Greatest Scientific Fraud
Bernhard A. Sabel at the Otto-von-Guericke-University of Magdeburg, Germany and Dan Larhammar at Uppsala University, Sweden present the 'Stockholm Declaration' for the 'Reformation of Science Publishing' published in Royal Society Open Science.
Letters to Scientific Journals Surge as ‘Prolific Debutante’ Authors Likely use AI
Letters to Scientific Journals Surge as ‘Prolific Debutante’ Authors Likely use AI
New study reinforces worries about “mass production of junk” by unscrupulous scholars aiming to pad their CVs
Where AI Meets Scientific Publishing | The AI Journal
If the proverbial saying that Artificial Intelligence (AI) touches every aspect in life is true, the world of scientific publishing certainly is no exception.
Author-paid publication fees corrupt science and should be abandoned
Author-paid publication fees corrupt science and should be abandoned
Author-paid publication fees, often associated with so-called “gold” open access journals, lead to the corruption of science by incentivizing the publication of low-quality research and exacerbate inequalities between institutions that are prestigious and well-funded and those that are less so. The authors recommend a total abandonment of author-paid publication fees for academic research, the publication of which is typically a public good yet serves to enrich publishers while degrading research outputs.
Citation Proximus: The Role of Social and Semantic Ties on Citations
Citation Proximus: The Role of Social and Semantic Ties on Citations
Citations are not only driven by prestige but are strongly affected by social networks and intellectual proximity. Recognizing the diverse factors influencing citations is critical for a fairer reward system of science.
From Language Barrier to AI Bias: The Non-Native Speaker's Dilemma in Scientific Publishing
From Language Barrier to AI Bias: The Non-Native Speaker's Dilemma in Scientific Publishing
For decades, researchers with English as an additional language have faced systemic disadvantages in publishing. AI writing tools promise relief, yet, they also bring new risks into science.
Open Access Days 2025: Goal Achieved - or How Can It (Ever) Be Accomplished?
Open Access Days 2025: Goal Achieved - or How Can It (Ever) Be Accomplished?
What does Open Access promise and what does it cost? How can the crucial importance of open infrastructures be embedded as a collective core task? What could a new concept for financing Diamond Open Access look like? At the Open Access Days 2025, these and other questions were answered in lectures and workshops.
Three Years After the Launch of ChatGPT, Do We Know Where This Is Heading?
Nearly three years after ChatGPT's debut, generative AI continues to reshape scholarly publishing. While workflows are becoming more efficient, the long-term impact on research creation and evaluation remains uncertain.
Ethicists Flirt with AI to Review Human Research
Large language models could help reduce backlog of study proposals, but critics are wary of entrusting ethics to machines.
Far More Authors Use AI to Write Science Papers than Admit it
Report highlights promise, questions about detectors of AI-generated text.
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