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A cross-sectional comparison of characteristics of potential predatory, legitimate open access, and legitimate subscription-based biomedical journals.
In the latest ploy, a group of researchers in Poland tried to seat a fictional scholar onto the editorial boards of 360 academic publications.
When Dr. Fraud applied to 360 randomly selected open-access academic journals asking to be an editor, 48 accepted her and four made her editor in chief.
An investigation finds that dozens of academic titles offered 'Dr Fraud' — a sham, unqualified scientist — a place on their editorial board.
Court documents suggest Monsanto helped “ghost write” paper
A study analysing digital transformation in the publishing industry found that 25 per cent of publishers see themselves as 'lagging' behind the rest of the industry.
The constant demand for predatory journals has now exposed significant flaws in the academic research establishment that questions the integrity of the research system.
The Nature journals continue journey towards greater rigour.
Building a coherent collaboration environment that facilitates scholarly communication workflows of social scientists in the roles of authors, reviewers, editors and readers.
A resource-centric communication protocol for for decentralised article publishing, annotations and peer to peer interactions.
Democratization of journal publishing: the key to lowering journal costs and facilitating Open Access.
The efficacy and ethics of piracy, placing ‘guerrilla open access’ within a longer history of piracy and access to knowledge.
How much can a single editor distort the citation record? Investigation documents rogue editor's coercion of authors to cite his journal, papers.
Prior co-authorship relations have a large and significant influence on manuscript handling times, speeding up the editorial decision on average by 19 days.
I learned not to develop any hard feelings against the reviewers or the editors...
Limited public funds for scientific research are being spent on reformatting manuscripts for different journals, without any apparent gain for science or society.
Open access publishing is gaining more and more momentum, and post-publication peer review is becoming more common. Those developments have both upsides and downsides.
How centralization of journals led to the serials crisis and why democratizing digital journal publishing using services is the key to fixing it.
Financing massive-scale copyright infringement.
A clientside editor for decentralised article publishing, annotations and social interactions.
New technologies could make the scientific review process more objective and accurate — but some worry about the risks of letting computers determine what gets published.
Why journal publishing should be upended from the current model, in which institutions pay publishers for access to content, to one in which the academic community pays for services to publish content and retains ownership of research.
A free, open-access journal designed to publish brief papers about research software.
Emory College of Arts and Sciences has launched a $1.2 million effort that positions it to be a national leader in the future of scholarly publishing. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is funding the multiyear initiative to support long-form, open-access publications in the humanities in partnership with university presses.
Several services attempt to gather up “all” of the content across publishers. This post provides an overview and taxonomy.
Proposing a new kind of paper that combines the flexibility of basic research with the rigour of clinical trials.
How to prevent, diagnose, and treat the five diseases of academic publishing.
Funders, scientists, and journal editors will continue to play vital roles in defining a communication system that embraces both modern technology and the human need for curation.
Universities across the country are struggling with rising journal prices
