Esta semana presentamos nuestro trabajo sobre revistas vendidas a editoriales depredadoras en la Universidad de Salamanca. La presentación está disponible en Zenodo: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

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Reporting on Flaws in Science in an Era of Mistrust - The Open Notebook Science journalism that reports on flaws in the scientific process operates in a fraught environment, with attacks on science and scientists worldwide and increasing concern about public mistrust in s...

Journalists can’t control the narratives others spin from their stories, but they can ensure their reporting provides an accurate picture of the issue at hand. A guide from @cathleenogrady.bsky.social, with @richvn.bsky.social, @manuelansede.bsky.social, @fleerackers.bsky.social and others. 🧪

Great piece by @cathleenogrady.bsky.social ! Featuring words from a number of level heads, including @manuelansede.bsky.social @jbakcoleman.bsky.social @richvn.bsky.social @jacksonwryan.com and others.

From a preservation standpoint, the best-case scenario would be for the former publisher, which for some reason never transferred control of the journal to the new publisher in the Crossref registry, to redirect the DOIs to copies hosted in a stable repository.

⚠️ After being delisted from WoS and Scopus, and after the editor in chief announced its end, the journal Profesional de la Información is offline. Its DOIs no longer resolve and articles are inaccessible, except for repository copies. A serious preservation issue affecting its authors and readers.

Thousands of scientists inflate their CVs with self-published studies that cost millions of dollars of public money An analysis of 100,000 special issues of academic journals reveals that one in eight is filled with articles written by the editor, particularly at the publisher MDPI

An analysis of 100,000 special issues of academic journals reveals that one in eight is filled with articles written by the guest editor, particularly at the publisher MDPI. Thousands of scientists inflate their CVs this way:
english.elpais.com/science-tech...

Personalmente, si fuera uno de los investigadores cuyo trabajo fue publicado en estas revistas tras la venta, no estaría muy contento con el editor tras saber que estaba al tanto de estas malas prácticas y no alertó públicamente de la situación

La ruta de oro de la publicación científica: del negocio de las revistas a las revistas negocio: La fuente del negocio editorial: el negocio bibliométrico de la evaluación científica Este trabajo pretende evidenciar que el sistema de comunicación científica en su conjunto y, muy en particular, la edición de revistas científicas se ha convertido en un puro negocio, gobernado más po...

Me alegra que nuestro trabajo sobre las malas prácticas de EPI y otras 35 revistas tras su venta ayudara a evitar que artículos aún en revisión se vieran afectados por estas editoriales depredadoras, un riesgo ya detectado a inicios de 2024 www.mediterranea-comunicacion.org/article/view...

Tomàs Baiget: "Las grandes editoriales científicas no son un monopolio, pero casi" - ÉXITO EDUCATIVO El emblemático cierre de la revista científica ‘El Profesional de la Información’ marca el final de una era en el campo de la documentación, la

"Cuando se conoció que la revista había sido expulsada de la Web of Science y de Scopus, los autores que tenían manuscritos en proceso de revisión los retiraron" exitoeducativo.net/tomas-baiget...

Perhaps this points to the need to regulate scholarly communication in ways similar to other critical human activities, rather than letting it evolve solely according to the interests of the strongest actors.

Regardless of the merits or flaws of this proposal, the very fact that external regulation of scholarly publishing is being considered aligns with (in my view) a broader shift toward #ScholarlyRecordsManagement and the principles laid down in ISO 15489 (Records Management) zenodo.org/records/6948...

Put pressure on publishers to follow best practice — external regulation is the answer Journals that work hard to meet the needs of both authors and readers should be acknowledged publicly — encouraging others to follow suit.

A proposal for journals to adopt externally audited quality management systems (e.g. ISO 9001), aiming to improve the lack of transparency, effectiveness, and potential conflicts of interest in current journal evaluation bodies. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Para mí también es un sinsentido que los CRIS estén downstream de las bases de datos, y no al revés. Las entidades de investigación deberían ser las primeras en enterarse (y registrar) lo que publican sus empleados, no las últimas

It’s been a few months since I was last able to export full cited-reference lists from Scopus. This is quite inconvenient for following up on the issue of stealth journal takeovers, which remains invisible in other data sources 🤷‍♂️

47 new articles indexed in Scopus during the last week by the journal Vascular and Endovascular Review. Again, many articles clearly outside journal scope:

Coverage of this journal was paused in Web of Science about a year ago. Crossref shows 8,475 DOIs minted in 2024 and only 2,748 in 2025, just 32% of the previous year. Another reminder that Impact Factors, rather than serving specific research communities, are driving publication choices.

The fall of a prolific science journal exposes the billion-dollar profits of scientific publishing

The fall of a prolific science journal exposes the billion-dollar profits of scientific publishing

La caída de una megarrevista científica expone el pelotazo de las editoriales en la ciencia Una de las cabeceras que más estudios publican en el mundo, expulsada del sistema por irregularidades. Su editorial, Elsevier, supera los 1.300 millones de euros de beneficios al año

La caída de una megarrevista científica expone el pelotazo de las editoriales en la ciencia. Una de las cabeceras que más estudios publican en el mundo ha sido expulsada del sistema por irregularidades. Su editorial, Elsevier, gana 1.300 millones al año:
elpais.com/ciencia/2025...

Title of article published in journal Vascular & Endovascular Review: Empowering Voices: Gender Realities and Female Resilience in Sucha Murty's Literary Narratives

Despite Scopus deciding to discontinue coverage for most of the journals in our journal snatchers study, some of them still remain covered, including Vascular and Endovascular Review. Coincidentally, this journal indexed 400 new studies in Scopus in the last week alone, some clearly out of scope:

Scholar Labs: An AI Powered Scholar Search Research questions are often detailed. Answering them can require looking at a topic from multiple angles. Today, we are introducing Scholar...

Google Scholar gets into "AI powered" space Assuming this can use all the full-text they have indexed this might be a game changer. The timing of this release maybe suggests Gemini 3 is being used? scholar.googleblog.com/2025/11/scho... . Apparently some hit a waitlist, I have access though (1)

Jornadas de formación | ASAMBLEA ANUAL UNE 2025 YouTube video by Unión de Editoriales Universitarias Españolas

Hoy he tenido el placer de participar en una mesa redonda sobre malas prácticas en comunicación científica en el marco de la Asamblea Anual de la UNE. Muchas gracias por la invitación! www.youtube.com/live/sljOPyB...

Regrettably, this phenomenon leaves a hole in academic communities where legitimate spaces for communication used to be. Small and independent journal publishers, if a shady entity approaches you, perhaps they are what they look like.

Scopus has discontinued over a dozen additional journals included in our "Invasion of the journal snatchers" analysis. A fast reaction time by bibliographic databases is crucial for defusing the business model of stealth journal transfers.
zenodo.org/records/1476... and zenodo.org/records/1521...

Las editoriales UNE celebran su asamblea general en la Universidad San Jorge de Zaragoza, en defensa de una edición de calidad, ética y socialmente responsable Los días 13 y 14 de noviembre

Programa completo: www.une.es/las-editoria...

Este jueves estaré en Zaragoza debatiendo sobre cómo actuar frente a malas prácticas y fraude en la comunicación científica, con
@amdelvaz.bsky.social
, Iratxe Puebla y Reme Pérez, en la Asamblea Anual de la UNE. Será emitido: www.youtube.com/live/sljOPyB...

Primera pregunta: ¿Se quiere actuar?

In today’s pay-to-publish model where every paper lands somewhere, rejection just means another publisher profits. That's why publishers are building multi-tier journal ecosystems.

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This is the lowest offer we've seen so far. Offers in the 200–400k range are common, and some journals have sold for nearly 1 million.

But again, opening with this when talking to university administrators is perhaps not the best way to go, I wouldn't know 🤷