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, […]
Introduction Scholarly publishing is one of the cornerstones of our global knowledge base. It enables the free exchange of ideas, […]
Previously (and perhaps even now) We used to advise our students that publishing in special issues could be good as
We summarize an article entitled “Who should pay for open-access publishing? APC alternatives emerge”
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.
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 appear to be offering vouchers if you edit a manuscript. We ask some questions.
There appears to be a market for MDPI vouchers. You provide any vouchers you have and “they” give you an authorship.
We argue that scholarly publishers should bear some of the cost in developing tools to detect AI generated content.
We call on universities to take decisive action and ban their scholars from submitting to certain journals/publishers.
We give a number of tips to enable you to avoid reviewing for a predatory journal.