Ethical Publishing

Elsevier changed a published paper without any explanation

Elsevier carried out a “stealth change” to a published paper. We look at the details.

The Directory of Open Access Journals has released its criteria for special issues. We comment on these.

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.

Retraction Watch has just started monitoring the mass resignation of editors from journals.

We list the journals that have published the most papers on predatory publishing, along with the h-index of those articles

We looked at Scopus and accessed all the papers that have been written by Jeffrey Beall.

We highlight two recent papers that address the topic of detecting AI generated text

We respectfully ask Elsevier to investigate two papers that appear to have been published after authors have paid to be an author.

As at 22 Aug 2023 985 papers have been published with ChatGPT in the title.