Day 24: The Ethical Publishing 2025 Advent Calendar #EthicalPublishing2025
For the final day of this advent series, I want to focus on something that underpins every issue we’ve explored over the past 24 days: research culture.
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Day 23: The Ethical Publishing 2025 Advent Calendar #EthicalPublishing2025
Today’s topic is manuscript mills, a close cousin of paper mills but operating with a slightly different model, and one that is becoming increasingly visible.
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Day 22: The Ethical Publishing 2025 Advent Calendar #EthicalPublishing2025
Today’s focus is questionable metrics, a problem that sits quietly in the background but shapes decisions across the entire research ecosystem.
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Day 21: The Ethical Publishing 2025 Advent Calendar #EthicalPublishing2025
Today’s topic is editorial conflicts of interest, an area that receives less attention than author disclosures but is just as important for maintaining trust.
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Day 20: The Ethical Publishing 2025 Advent Calendar #EthicalPublishing2025
Today’s topic is opaque or misleading APC practices, an issue that affects researchers, institutions, and funders worldwide.
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Day 19: The Ethical Publishing 2025 Advent Calendar #EthicalPublishing2025
Today’s focus is poor or inadequate peer review, an issue that affects both the quality of published research and the confidence authors place in the publication process.
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Day 18: The Ethical Publishing 2025 Advent Calendar #EthicalPublishing2025
Today’s focus is editorial bias, a topic that is often acknowledged in private conversations but rarely discussed openly.
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Day 17: The Ethical Publishing 2025 Advent Calendar #EthicalPublishing2025
Today’s topic is authorship disputes, an issue that can disrupt collaborations and, in some cases, derail entire projects.
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Day 16: The Ethical Publishing 2025 Advent Calendar #EthicalPublishing2025
Today’s focus is inappropriate or undisclosed AI use in research and writing, an issue that has grown rapidly with the availability of generative tools.
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Day 15: The Ethical Publishing 2025 Advent Calendar #EthicalPublishing2025
Today’s topic is fake conferences, an issue that sits alongside predatory journals but often receives far less attention.
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Day 14: The Ethical Publishing 2025 Advent Calendar #EthicalPublishing2025
Today’s theme is hijacked journals, a lesser-known but increasingly sophisticated threat to researchers.
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Day 13: The Ethical Publishing 2025 Advent Calendar #EthicalPublishing2025
Today’s focus is predatory journals, a topic that has become a major concern across the global research community.
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Day 12: The Ethical Publishing 2025 Advent Calendar #EthicalPublishing2025
Today we turn to conflicts of interes, a topic that is often reduced to a short disclosure statement at the end of a manuscript, but in reality goes much deeper.
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Day 11: The Ethical Publishing 2025 Advent Calendar #EthicalPublishing2025
Today’s topic is data falsification, a close relative of fabrication but distinct in how it appears in research practice.
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Day 10: The Ethical Publishing 2025 Advent Calendar #EthicalPublishing2025
Today’s focus is data fabrication, one of the most serious breaches of research integrity.
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Day 9: The Ethical Publishing 2025 Advent Calendar #EthicalPublishing2025
Today, I want to turn to salami slicing—the practice of breaking one substantial piece of research into several smaller papers.
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Day 8: The Ethical Publishing 2025 Advent Calendar #EthicalPublishing2025
Today’s theme is duplicate submissions, a practice that sounds straightforward to understand but can take more subtle forms than many realise.
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Day 7: The Ethical Publishing 2025 Advent Calendar #EthicalPublishing2025
Today, I want to look at fake peer reviews, a problem that has evolved rapidly over the past decade.
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Day 6: The Ethical Publishing 2025 Advent Calendar #EthicalPublishing2025
Today’s focus is citation manipulation, a practice that often hides behind seemingly harmless suggestions or “helpful” nudges.
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Day 5: The Ethical Publishing 2025 Advent Calendar #EthicalPublishing2025
Today’s topic is one that has become impossible to ignore: paper mills.
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Day 4: The Ethical Publishing 2025 Advent Calendar #EthicalPublishing2025
Today, I want to look at ghost authorship, the quiet counterpart to gift authorship, and often even more concerning.
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Day 3: The Ethical Publishing 2025 Advent Calendar #EthicalPublishing2025
Today’s focus is gift authorship, which is often not discussed but is a significant challenge in academic publishing.
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Day 2: The Ethical Publishing 2025 Advent Calendar #EthicalPublishing2025
I opened this series by highlighting some of the pressures that slowly erode trust in scholarly publishing. Today, I want to look at one of the most familiar issues: plagiarism.
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Day 1: The Ethical Publishing 2025 Advent Calendar #EthicalPublishing2025
As we move into December, I wanted to try something a little different. For the next 24 days, I’ll be sharing short reflections on some of the challenges facing scholarly publishing.
Starting tomorrow, and then for 24 days, I'll be posting a series of articles about ethical publishing. Not a typical holiday season subject but, as the year end approaches, it's a good time to reflect. Each post will be tagged with #EthicalPublishing2025. Hope you enjoy
