Ten Challenges that Threaten the Integrity of Scholarly Publishing
Introduction Scholarly publishing is one of the cornerstones of our global knowledge base. It enables the free exchange of ideas, […]
Article Processing Charges
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
What are the alternatives to Article Processing Charges?
We summarize an article entitled “Who should pay for open-access publishing? APC alternatives emerge”
Should it take three years to investigate a paper?
Ethical concerns were raised about three years ago, saying that a paper contained fake meta-analysis. The publisher says that it is still under investigation. We give our thoughts.
Revenue form article processing charges for five publishers was over US$ 1 billion between 2015-2018
The “big 5” publishers (Elsevier, Sage, Springer-Nature, Taylor & Francis and Wiley) a was over $1 billion. We look at the article that reported this.
Frontiers enables you to earn points by editing a manuscript
Frontiers appear to be offering vouchers if you edit a manuscript. We ask some questions.
There appears to be a black market for MDPI vouchers
There appears to be a market for MDPI vouchers. You provide any vouchers you have and “they” give you an authorship.
Should publishers pay to help detect AI generated content?
We argue that scholarly publishers should bear some of the cost in developing tools to detect AI generated content.
Universities should ban submissions to some publishers
We call on universities to take decisive action and ban their scholars from submitting to certain journals/publishers.
How not to review for a predatory journal
We give a number of tips to enable you to avoid reviewing for a predatory journal.