Social media transparency in academic publishing
While recognising that anonymity on social media is sometimes necessary (I flew under the radar for six years) there are times when it is important to be more open.
Unethical 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?
Is Big Pharma using OMICS to publish ‘sketchy’ articles?
“With help from drug companies, Omics International is making millions as it roils the scientific community with sketchy publications.” You need to read this article.
Three books which address predatory publishing
We mention three books, which all address predatory publishing.
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.
Selling of authorships: Elsevier please investigate
We respectfully ask Elsevier to investigate two papers that appear to have been published after authors have paid to be an author.
Our anonymity and a change in direction
We outline a new direction for this web site (and our Twitter feed). We will still focus on predatory publishing but will also have a much wider coverage.
How do you spot a ChatGPT paper? Here is one easy way
Generators, such as ChapGPT, cannot be listed as authors on a paper, yet this is happening and (in some cases) it is easy to spot.
Referring to an old Scopus ranking: Malpractice?
A journal that is indexed by Scope Database appears to give the impression that it is indexed by Scopus, whereas the coverage has been discontinued. Is this an example of malpractice?