Meh #ScientificPublishing

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I am slowly getting disillusioned about scientific publishing and rigor. I just got a note from google scholar that one of my articles has been cited. Looking it up, they made our "these reasons were named regularly in these categories" into "these categories enable these reasons".

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We received this email forwarded to us at the university, and it is somewhat odd and amusing on several levels.
#ScientificPublishing

I really wish more plant scientists, and especially influential big name plant scientists, would publish with eLife.
Their new publishing model is a fantastic way forward and to get us out of the #ScientificPublishing mess we have gotten ourselves into and to which we claim we are held hostage.

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PCI Webinar: The Drain of Scientific Publishing: why publishing is becoming a burden for science and how to fix it

An overview talk based on three papers on #ScientificPublishing, where it stands & how to fix it. Plus dad jokes and bad acronyms.

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#ScientificPublishing when authors pay: journal cascading

Nature >
Nature X,Y >
Nature Progress >
Nature Progress X,Y

never shall an author go to your competitors!

Same as Springer Discover, freely inspired by MDPI:

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and yet somehow when this happens in research we just shrug and suggest things can simply be corrected. Let's just stop using corrections as sweeping under the carpet tool, shall we? #ScientificPublishing #ResearchIntegrity 5/5

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SILICE: Spain's Pioneering Open Scientific Information System Based on Non-Commercial Sources - killbait.com/posts/post/9... #science #openscience #scientificpublishing #bibliometrics

#EACL2026 #PeerReview #ScientificPublishing #AIforScience #LLMs #DialogueSystems #Evaluation #ResearchIntegrity #NLP #MachineLearning #UKPLab @cs-tudarmstadt.bsky.social

Samuel Darwisman - Profile on Academia.edu Samuel Darwisman (M.MT) is a Researcher at ITL Trisakti, specializing in Logistics 5.0 and Sustainable SCM. He pioneered the General Theory of Piping…

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#OpenScience #Metadata #Crossref #ORCID #ROR #ResearchImpact #Research #AcademicResearch #ScientificPublishing #arXiv #SSRN #DigitalScience #GoogleScholar #SciSpace #OCLC #Scopus #TheLancet #Mendeley #Wikipedia #DimensionsAI

The main problem are the Scientists who continue to publish with such journals, using the lame cop-out that they need it to have a career. Nobody(!) needs a NatComs paper to have a career. They want the Nature logo on their paper to feed their ego. That's all.

#scipub #scientificpublishing

Call for members to submit reviews and perspectives to Microbiology Outlooks journal, highlighting authoritative microbiology content.

From emerging technologies to global health, Microbiology Outlooks highlights the diverse ways in which microbes shape our world – and how microbiologists can help shape the future. Submit your review, perspective or ideas here: https://microb.io/MoutJournal #ScientificPublishing

🤖 Can you submit an AI-generated image to a scientific journal?
Not always - and the rules depend heavily on the journal.
In this article we looked at how journals handle AI-generated visuals.
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Curious to hear your thoughts.
#ScientificPublishing #AI #SciArt

tenzing Documenting contributorship with CRediT

The Google Sheet is formatted such that the tenzing.club website can use it to generate your list of authors with affiliations, and the basics of the Acknowledgments section you might need for your manuscript.” #scientificPublishing

SILICE: Spain's Pioneering Open Scientific Information System Based on Non-Commercial Sources The article critiques the commercialization of scientific information systems, highlighting how private publishers and databases like Web of Science, Scopus, and Dimensions profit from research produced by publicly funded scientists who receive no royalties. This model transfers public money to private companies and compromises scientific independence by prioritizing commercial interests over objective evaluation. The author explains that traditional metrics, such as journal impact factors and simple citation counts, have distorted research assessment, encouraging quantity over quality and contributing to issues like paper mills, citation farms, and predatory practices. Initiatives like the Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA), the Leiden Manifesto, CoARA, the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information, and Spain's National Strategy for Open Science call for shifting to non-commercial, open infrastructures that rely on sources like Crossref, PubMed, OpenCitations, and OpenAlex. In response, SILICE (Sistema de Información sobre la Literatura Científica Española) has been developed as Spain's first fully open scientific information system. It includes over 3 million publications, 40 million citations, and 117,000 authors, enabling searches by authors, organizations, journals, and disciplines. Users can claim or create author profiles using ORCID and OpenAlex data, and access indicators for production, impact, and collaboration at various levels. This tool supports scientific tracking, evaluation, and dissemination free from private interference, aligning with the principle of scientific disinterestedness and promoting community-governed, transparent research assessment.

SILICE: Spain's Pioneering Open Scientific Information System Based on Non-Commercial Sources

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#openscience #scientificpublishing #bibliometrics

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From Preprint to Published: The Secret Life of Scientific Manuscripts What really happens to research preprints after they hit the digital world? At GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, a dedicated team has documented the journey of over 145,000 bioRxiv…

From Preprint to Published: The Secret Life of Scientific Manuscripts

#ScientificPublishing #Preprints

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Another in my ongoing series on publishers' failings: a paper in which Web of Science is variously given as 'web-of-science' and 'Web-of-Science'. The same paper also has a lot of missing spaces in the text.

#ScientificPublishing #AcademicPublishing #CopyEditing #Proofreading

#UKPLab #NLP #NLProc #AI #PeerReview
#AIforScience #ScientificPublishing #NoveltyDetection #Evaluation #OpenScience @cs-tudarmstadt.bsky.social

Happy Tuesday 😀 ! Would you like to hear more about my experience as scientific #editor of the academic journal @Brain Communications 🧠 ? Listen to this interview done with Mel Neusch youtu.be/2eTnnXm7cnw?... #scientificeditor #scientificpublishing #sciencejournal #neuroscience #adayinthelife

Career effects of preprints get mixed reviews from biomedical researchers Junior researchers are more likely to embrace preprints; grant reviewers and hiring committees express doubts

#preprints are seen as accelerating science – but do they accelerate #researchcareers? @science.org @sciencecareers.bsky.social #scientificpublishing #scicomm
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Datentracking bei Elsevier: Yuliya Fadeeva im Interview Das wissenschaftliche Publikationswesen ist fest in der Hand einiger Großverlage. Als Data Analytics-Firmen spionieren sie Forschende aus.

„Die Daten fließen nur in eine Richtung, nämlich von der Wissenschaft zu Elsevier“ – Yuliya Fadeeva zum Datentracking durch Verlage

#DataTracking #ScientificPublishing

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📈 Driving scientific impact in #Nursing

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#Awards #NursingScience #ScientificPublishing #NurseLife #USQ

The rise and fall of peer review Why the greatest scientific experiment in history failed, and why that's a great thing

"Only one of Einstein’s papers was ever peer-reviewed, by the way, and he was so surprised and upset that he published his paper in a different journal instead..."

A great article on peer-review. #scientificpublishing

The one science reform we can all agree on, but we're too cowardly to do OR: the long overdue forest fire

"Of all the crazy parts of our crazy system, the craziest part is where taxpayers pay for the research, then pay private companies to publish it, and then pay again so scientists can read it." Adam Mastroianni always a good read. #scientificpublishing

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Guest Post — The Value Challenge in Scholarly Publishing - The Scholarly Kitchen Today's guest blogger identifies signals of how fractured the scholarly research ecosystem has become, and how the value publishers provide is increasingly questioned, dismissed, or overlooked by key ...

New piece in @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social exploring the growing tension between academia and publishers. I examine both perspectives and argue that the trust gap can be bridged through stronger value creation and clearer communication of that value. #AcademicSky #ScientificPublishing

This AI can improve your peer review — and make it more polite A system of five models helps peer reviewers to write more constructive comments, but it is not yet known whether this strengthens the papers that are being reviewed.

This AI can improve your peer review — and make it more polite

#AI #PeerReview #ScientificPublishing

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Peer replication - EMBO Reports EMBO Reports - To address the replication crisis and instill confidence in the scientific literature, we introduce a new framework for evaluating scientific manuscripts. “Peer...

#ScientificPublishing is flawed with most published research unlikely to be #Reproducible.

To address this, we propose #PeerReplication as an alternative or augmentation to #PeerReview, where key experiments are reproduced, adding robustness to published findings: doi.org/10.1038/s44319-026-00705-8

December 2025 - At the Member Forum, the Physiological Society’s Editors-in-Chief including Director Colleen Clancy took the stage for an In Conversation session to share insights on research, publishing, and advancing the field together.

#Physiology #ScientificPublishing #ResearchCommunity

Given how much profit journal publishers make, is it asking too much to check that the title of a paper is correct? Here's the link for anyone interested:

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It's the misplaced apostrophe that's annoyed me.

#ScientificPublishing #CopyEditing

Major Chinese funder to stop paying fees for 30 pricey open-access journals Move comes amid effort to grow the country’s own journals

Are #openaccess fees that some journals charge authors too high? The Chinese Academy of Sciences, the world’s largest research institution, reportedly thinks so and plans to stop funding some, a move that could shake up #scientificpublishing. @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...