Hyper-prolific authors in Jan & Feb 2025
We looked at how many authors have published more than one paper in day in the first two months of 2025
What is a paper mill?
Here is our description of a paper mill, in the context of scholarly publishing.
Hyper Productive Authors: Oct 2024
In the first ten months of 2024, 23 authors have published more than one article a day. We delve a little deeper.
What is a Digital Object Identifier (DOI)? | Is it an Indicator of Quality?
A DOI is a permalink to a scientific paper. It says nothing about the quality of a publisher, a journal or a paper. In this article we look at what a DOI is and what it means for predatory publishing.
Five things we can do to help stop unethical publishing
Here are five suggestions that we think will help stop unethical publishing. Do you agree?
Here’s the real problem that the scholarly community faces – and we cannot do anything about it.
We present a list of issues that the scholarly publishing faces and ask what we can do about it?
An evidence based approach to publishers and journals
We are starting to look more robustly at journals and publishers. The article contains more details.
Did these eight authors start buying authorships in 2022?
A paper was retracted as eight authors were added without the journal’s permission. We take a look at the profile of those eight authors.
Why (and how) would somebody write more than a letter every day to scientific journals?
We ask why somebody would publish more than one letter a day in scientific journals and what workflow this would entail.
The changing landscape of special issues
Previously (and perhaps even now) We used to advise our students that publishing in special issues could be good as