There were quite a few familiar faces and voices from 2015 #fssc at the 2025 #FutureSciPub meeting this week! And lots of familiar themes and concerns. There were also some changes, e.g. how #dora is getting on, how preprints are growing...
Future of #ScientificPublishing, @royalsociety.org invited "global leaders in scientific publishing & research & innovation to discuss the current state, likely developments & major disruptions possible in scientific publishing in the next 15 years.” #FutureSciPub
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There has been a conference on the Future of Scientific Publishing over the past couple of days. I could not attend unfortunately but I have been following what has been going on via the hashtag #FutureSciPub, which @elisabethbik.bsky.social has been using on 𝕏.
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Three white people sitting on a stage (Bill Sutherland, Mark Walport, and Sophie Meekings) with a Royal Society branded lectern in one corner and a slide projected behind them entitled "The future of scientific publishing"
Sophie beaming and holding a driving test pass certificate in front of a bright blue car with colourful dots all over it
Been a wild 24hrs- kicked off Monday giving a talk at the Royal Society #FutureSciPub then headed home to miraculously pass my driving test?? Have spent a good chunk of the year so far so ill I couldn't travel and legally unable to drive for a bit so feeling v grateful for some glorious respite.
BACKGROUND: much of the commentary at the Disciplinary Differences panel at #FutureSciPub resonates. My 2008 PhD thesis: “The effect of scholarly communication practices on engagement with open access: An Australian study of three disciplines” openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/items/6b7a7d...
Richard Gallagher (Annual Reviews) at
#FutureSciPub : “Preprints are the solution [to the economic challenges of publishing]” 👏
So I await with interest the *actions* that will arise from this meeting. Yes, that is a challenge! #FutureSciPub 5/5
…gave me the chance to work with her group on an important historical examination of scholarly publishing, which I think stands the test of time! zenodo.org/records/546100 4/5 #FutureSciPub
…crystallised thinking among another (overlapping!) group of us to come up with a way to demystify and partially neurtalise the journal impact factor: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... And finally, it was my first encounter with the mighty @aileenfyfe.bsky.social who… 3/5 #FutureSciPub
…I found very formative. It sowed the seed among a few of us that ultimately helped to put some money into DORA and establish it as a leading player in global research assessment reform sfdora.org; and it also… 2/5 #FutureSciPub
Part of me is sorry not to be at the #FutureSciPub meeting at the Royal Society yesterday & today - mainly because I won't be seeing so many old friends & colleagues. Thanks to all those who have been posting updates. I was at the 2015 meeting, which…1/5 occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2015/...
Gallagher: we must confront the possibility the US govt sets up a competing publication system clothed in the veneer of legitimacy for propagation of fringe science
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#FutureSciPub I do agree with the comment that a core question is the need to have the conversation about what research is for, and that this is a discussion that should happen at the national level.
#FutureSciPub in my opinion the call from the current panel to have funders underwrite loss making infrastructure, while at the same time wanting feature improvement, is unrealistic.
#FutureSciPub as Rebecca Lawrence mentioned, there are no shortage of “solutions” that have been developed. a hint - that the existence of these solutions have not solved the problems indicates that the problems lie elsewhere.
“People don’t want to interact with a paper. They want to interact with the author” @valdavinson.bsky.social on lack of onsite commenting on papers at #FutureSciPub 1/2
#FutureSciPub - prof jinghai li - call for AI translation between languages. This is such a good idea, and now cost effective to do. I feel there is a moral and commercial imperative to do this.
#FutureSciPub. Thought experiment. How would scielo work if it had 3.5 million submissions in a year? Could it continue to manage at a cost of $400 per article?
#FutureSciPub so what we must have are indications of use and reuse, that’s the way to tell if a paper has utility.
#FutureSciPub in case anyone missed it, post publication peer review through any system of engaging with the paper does not work, clear evidence ton Ijad from research gate, anyone holding that torch is misguided.
#FutureSciPub the underlying underdiscussed topics - for me - AI, scale, identity systems. I have now 20+ short pages of notes. Much comments to come.
#FutureSciPub Philip Campbell mentions that like laws of physics, systems change funeral by funeral. Luckily many of the people at this meeting are ready to support change!
#futurescipub It strikes me that the overlap between publishing/peer review for dissemination vs assessment is a bit like a thing sitting in a superposition of states. When we stare at is a bit the thing collapses in unpredictable ways.
“Publish first, evaluate continuously…That’s how science actually happens”. A better casting of the PRC model from @madubs.bsky.social at Royal Society #FutureSciPub
Attending #FutureSciPub @royalsociety.org and I've yet to hear anyone talk about ensuring that the new models are technically viable. Research integrity and discovery are essential but we need accessibility and preservation, too!
Second day of the Royal Soc Future of Science Publishing conference #FutureSciPub. This morning we start with a panel on leveraging digital infrastructure to go beyond traditional journal/article model.
Follow @chrislintott.bsky.social for more tweets about the @royalsociety.org meeting happening now in London.
I have been posting photos and tweets using #FutureSciPub on Twitter.
