#academicpublishing — Public Fediverse posts

We are happy to share that the IDAHO project report is now published 🎉

It brings together the main findings and outcomes of our two years work. While related paper is still under review, the full report is already available for anyone interested.

You can download it from the repository (in German 🇩🇪 )
https://doi.org/10.34657/35502

#OpenAccess #barriers #Independent_researchers #AcademicPublishing #OpenScience

CIDRAP: Review uncovers rising rate of fake references in published biomedical papers. “A systematic review published yesterday in The Lancet reveals that of 97.1 million verified references in published biomedical papers, 4,046 were likely fake, with rates of fabrication rising 12-fold from 2023 through 2025—which commentators call a disturbing discovery that highlights the need to improve […]

CIDRAP: Review uncovers rising rate of fake references in published biomedical papers. “A systematic review published yesterday in The Lancet reveals that of 97.1 million verified references in published biomedical papers, 4,046 were likely fake, with rates of fabrication rising 12-fold from 2023 through 2025—which commentators call a disturbing discovery that highlights the need to improve […]

CIDRAP: Review uncovers rising rate of fake references in published biomedical papers. “A systematic review published yesterday in The Lancet reveals that of 97.1 million verified references in published biomedical papers, 4,046 were likely fake, with rates of fabrication rising 12-fold from 2023 through 2025—which commentators call a disturbing discovery that highlights the need to improve […]

CIDRAP: Review uncovers rising rate of fake references in published biomedical papers. “A systematic review published yesterday in The Lancet reveals that of 97.1 million verified references in published biomedical papers, 4,046 were likely fake, with rates of fabrication rising 12-fold from 2023 through 2025—which commentators call a disturbing discovery that highlights the need to improve […]

CIDRAP: Review uncovers rising rate of fake references in published biomedical papers. “A systematic review published yesterday in The Lancet reveals that of 97.1 million verified references in published biomedical papers, 4,046 were likely fake, with rates of fabrication rising 12-fold from 2023 through 2025—which commentators call a disturbing discovery that highlights the need to improve […]

An audit of 2.5 million biomedical papers found nearly 3,000 studies containing fake citations, with researchers warning that AI writing tools may be fuelling the rise https://english.mathrubhumi.com/education/news/fake-citations-biomedical-research-ai-study-g2qbu1id?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #AI #Science #ResearchIntegrity #AcademicPublishing #MedicalResearch

This paper explores the fascinating phenomenon of “zombie journals” – journals that continue to exist after their editorial boards resign and launch rival “breakaway journals.”

:doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2026.105519

Using cases from linguistics and bibliometrics, the study shows that journal brands can survive institutional crises, but often with dramatically changed author communities, citation patterns, and academic identities.

#AcademicPublishing #OpenScience #Scientometrics #JournalMetrics

I am writing a book on how to get published in peer reviewed journals, especially for adjuncts, students and people outside academia. What is a question that you want the book to answer? Reply here or [email protected] #AcademicPublishing #NonFiction #PeerReview

FoSci Releases Report Analyzing Growing Threats to Research Integrity

In Vancouver this week, the Forensic Scientometrics movement presented their first report, based on information from 17 experts in the field, highlighting the wide, often systemic, threats to scientific research.
The post FoSci Releases Report Analyzing Growing Threats to Research Integrity appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.
https://publishingperspectives.com/2026/05/fosci-releases-report-analyzing-growing-threats-to-research-integrity/

#AcademicPublishing #digitalscience #ForensicScientometricsmovement #FoSci #LeslieMcIntosh

Leading Cancer Charity Stops Funding Open Access Publishing Because It’s Just Not Working

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/04/29/leading-cancer-charity-stops-funding-open-access-publishing-because-its-just-not-working/

Some weeks ago I accepted a review request from a prestige journal (in a small field). I found the abstract interesting, but had hesitations due to poor experience with editorial process as an author with this journal, and since it was an El$evier journal (which I try to avoid doing free work for).

Now the deadline review is approaching, and the study was less interesting than assumed, has no data available, poor transparency, typos that should have been weeded out in the review process, and I'm regretting my decision. I will fortify my review policy for the future!

#AcademicChatter #AcademicPublishing #PeerReview #elsevier #OpenScience

📝 Excited to share that new articles from the Journal of the Council for Research on Religion (JCREOR), Vol. 7 No. 1 (2026), Sources of Religious Nationalism, will be rolling out over the coming weeks. We begin this week with two outstanding essays by Muhammad Afdillah and Mohammad Meerzaei.

https://creor-ejournal.library.mcgill.ca/issue/view/17

#acrel, #AARSBL, #SBLAAR

#ReligiousStudies #ReligionAndPolitics #ReligiousNationalism #AcademicPublishing #JCREOR #PublicScholarship #HigherEducation #InterdisciplinaryResearch

Excited to share that new articles from the Journal of the Council for Research on Religion (JCREOR), Vol. 7 No. 1 (2026), Sources of Religious Nationalism, will be rolling out over the coming weeks. We begin this week with two outstanding essays by Muhammad Afdillah and Mohammad Meerzaei.

https://creor-ejournal.library.mcgill.ca/issue/view/17

#acrel, #AARSBL, #SBLAAR

#ReligiousStudies #ReligionAndPolitics #ReligiousNationalism #AcademicPublishing #JCREOR #PublicScholarship #HigherEducation #InterdisciplinaryResearch

Excited to share that new articles from the Journal of the Council for Research on Religion (JCREOR), Vol. 7 No. 1 (2026), Sources of Religious Nationalism, will be rolling out over the coming weeks. We begin this week with two outstanding essays by Muhammad Afdillah and Mohammad Meerzaei.

https://creor-ejournal.library.mcgill.ca/issue/view/17

#acrel, #AARSBL, #SBLAAR

#ReligiousStudies #ReligionAndPolitics #ReligiousNationalism #AcademicPublishing #JCREOR #PublicScholarship #HigherEducation #InterdisciplinaryResearch

Good discussion at our #HealthSciences #PGR coffee morning about #authorship, especially when publishing with supervisors or larger teams.

I used this recent paper to create a space for sharing experience and practice:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03075079.2026.2633517

#ECR #AcademicPublishing

📣Hosting platform DergiPark, home to 2500+ journals, has been integrated with DOAJ
💠Journals that are listed on DOAJ can now export their content with a simple click of a button #indexing #visability #TRDizin #DergiPark #ULAKBİM #AcademicPublishing
💠Details: https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/announcement/34

📣Hosting platform DergiPark, home to 2500+ journals, has been integrated with DOAJ
💠Journals that are listed on DOAJ can now export their content with a simple click of a button #indexing #visability #TRDizin #DergiPark #ULAKBİM #AcademicPublishing
💠Details: https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/announcement/34

📣Hosting platform DergiPark, home to 2500+ journals, has been integrated with DOAJ
💠Journals that are listed on DOAJ can now export their content with a simple click of a button #indexing #visability #TRDizin #DergiPark #ULAKBİM #AcademicPublishing
💠Details: https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/announcement/34

📣Hosting platform DergiPark, home to 2500+ journals, has been integrated with DOAJ
💠Journals that are listed on DOAJ can now export their content with a simple click of a button #indexing #visability #TRDizin #DergiPark #ULAKBİM #AcademicPublishing
💠Details: https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/announcement/34

📣Hosting platform DergiPark, home to 2500+ journals, has been integrated with DOAJ
💠Journals that are listed on DOAJ can now export their content with a simple click of a button #indexing #visability #TRDizin #DergiPark #ULAKBİM #AcademicPublishing
💠Details: https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/announcement/34

I was today years old when I learned that scientists from the 17th century had their own form of "preprints" to lay claim to ideas before they got them officially published.

Galileo wrote in a letter to Kepler "Haec immatura a me iam frustra leguntur o.y.", in English "These are now too young to be read by me".

*After* his work was formally published, he explained the anagram to Kepler:

"Cynthiae figuras aemulatur mater amorum" (The mother of love imitates the shape of Cynthia)

By sending the letter, Galileo could prove to Kepler and others that he had observed that Venus (mother of love) had phases like the moon (Cynthia), without giving Kepler a chance to scoop him before his own work was published.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phases_of_Venus

#HistoryOfScience #Astronomy #History #PrePrint #AcademicPublishing

#arXiv has announced that, from July 1, 2026, it will become an independent #nonprofit after many years at #CornellUniversity. The stated goals are greater organizational flexibility, faster technological development, broader partnerships, and long-term financial sustainability, while keeping the same mission:

🌍 https://blog.arxiv.org/2026/04/02/arxiv-is-becoming-an-independent-nonprofit/

Sounds like a reasonable and probably necessary step for a platform that has long become core research infrastructure.

#OpenScience #AcademicPublishing

English – The Conversation | Plagiarised research passed automated tests, and I detected it – but only because it copied my work by Carolyn Heward, Senior lecturer, Clinical Psychology, James Cook University

Earlier this year, I published a paper on the ethics of researching military populations.

The core argument was straightforward: the standard rules researchers follow to protect participants – for example, informed consent and voluntary participation – don’t work the same in an institution built on hierarchy and obedience.

A soldier can, as protected by ethics, say no to participating in research. But when their commanding officer has nominated them, the practical reality of saying no is very different from the legal right to do so. My paper explored the tension between ethical rights and lived reality.

From factual errors to reproduced memos

A lucky catch

A deeper concern

Read more: https://theconversation.com/plagiarised-research-passed-automated-tests-and-i-detected-it-but-only-because-it-copied-my-work-279553

#defencementalhealth #peerreview #academicpublishing #socialsciences

Our new 📄 in Current Alzheimer Research looks at a strange, and worrying, phenomenon in scientific writing: tortured phrases. Instead of blood-brain barrier, some papers use bizarre alternatives like blood-brain obstruction or blood-cerebrum boundary.

:doi: https://doi.org/10.2174/0115672050460224260206052444

These are not just language errors, they can signal deeper issues such as weak #PeerReview or even #PaperMills.

#OpenScience #ResearchIntegrity #Bibliometrics #Neuroethics #AcademicPublishing

"Last year, a team of American and Chinese researchers published an analysis of international research collaborations. Their machine-learning model identified the lead authors of nearly 6 million scientific teams to see who was actually in charge. The team found that among U.S.-China collaborations, the share of leaders who were affiliated with Chinese institutions had grown from 30 percent in 2010 to 45 percent in 2023. The researchers projected that China will pull even with the U.S. next year or in 2028 at the latest.

In the end, China’s scientific-superpower status will likely depend on the world-changing force of its discoveries. “We don’t just want papers,” Yian Yin, a professor of information science at Cornell, told me. “We want papers that turn into real theoretical insights or technologies.” Some of these can be tracked by looking at how research is cited in patent applications, but this additional diffusion can introduce its own lag of 10 years or more. Even so, China’s fast rise in the applied sciences is already obvious, Yin said. The country is in the midst of a solarpunk revolution. Thanks to its advances in chemistry and materials science, China has caught up with or surpassed the U.S. in the design and manufacture of advanced batteries, electric vehicles, and solar cells—key technologies for the 21st century."

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/2026/03/china-science-superpower/686564/

#China #USA #Science #AcademicPublishing #SuperPower #Patents #SolarPunk #Renewables

"Last year, a team of American and Chinese researchers published an analysis of international research collaborations. Their machine-learning model identified the lead authors of nearly 6 million scientific teams to see who was actually in charge. The team found that among U.S.-China collaborations, the share of leaders who were affiliated with Chinese institutions had grown from 30 percent in 2010 to 45 percent in 2023. The researchers projected that China will pull even with the U.S. next year or in 2028 at the latest.

In the end, China’s scientific-superpower status will likely depend on the world-changing force of its discoveries. “We don’t just want papers,” Yian Yin, a professor of information science at Cornell, told me. “We want papers that turn into real theoretical insights or technologies.” Some of these can be tracked by looking at how research is cited in patent applications, but this additional diffusion can introduce its own lag of 10 years or more. Even so, China’s fast rise in the applied sciences is already obvious, Yin said. The country is in the midst of a solarpunk revolution. Thanks to its advances in chemistry and materials science, China has caught up with or surpassed the U.S. in the design and manufacture of advanced batteries, electric vehicles, and solar cells—key technologies for the 21st century."

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/2026/03/china-science-superpower/686564/

#China #USA #Science #AcademicPublishing #SuperPower #Patents #SolarPunk #Renewables

"While economists pride themselves on the robustness of their seminars, what actually matters is publication in just five journals. The editors have immense power. Peer review is closed and anonymous. Virtually nothing is ever retracted. Post-publication peer review is minimal. Instead, my experience suggests that there is a culture of not publicly criticizing anything that has been published. If you do, you are viewed as too aggressive, possibly due to some kind of personality defect. Meanwhile, the original authors can use their right to reply for deflection and ad hominem attacks. The fear of upsetting one’s superiors is palpable.

The machines will perhaps bring about some changes. They are massively useful for replication. Without asking a robot to explain it to me repeatedly as if I were a five-year-old, I never would have understood the SCM or Borusyak et al.’s critique of Autor et al.; I never would have done all the coding my replications required; I never would have been able to search for errors in German-language source materials. The cost of doing replication studies has dropped dramatically, even if the institutions and the culture of economics are still hostile to them. Perhaps the system will catch up.

Ultimately, however, human experts are still needed to determine the truth. "

https://thepoorrichworld.substack.com/p/reflections-on-my-adventures-in-replication

#Economics #SocialSciences #Replication #PeerReview #AcademicPublishing

Sharing my talk “Transparency, Delegation, and Responsibility: How Universities Can Regulate the Use of Generative AI” https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18934518

#GenerativeAI #ResearchIntegrity #GAIDeT #AcademicPublishing #OpenScience

UC San Francisco: Announcing the Open Access UC-Authored Monographs Pilot Project. “The University of California (UC) Libraries are supporting several open access pilot projects intended to broaden access to UC research and scholarship by making UC-authored books freely available online.”

#Brainstorming the perfect journal for field reports in #archaeology :

- Diamond open access, of course
- Community-owned and run
- Brief articles focused on results
- Publish in any language
- Pre-publication editorial review for novelty, ethics and reproducibility
- (Optional?) post-publication peer review for scientific rigour, with e.g. @PCI_Archaeology
- No review for significance
- HTML-first format with open source code
- Machine-readable site metadata

#AcademicPublishing #Journals

Elsevier Shuts Down Its Finance Journal Citation Cartel

https://www.chrisbrunet.com/p/elsevier-shuts-down-its-finance-journal

#HackerNews #Elsevier #Finance #Journal #Citation #Cartel #ShutDown #AcademicPublishing #OpenAccess #ScholarlyCommunication

We are submitting an article to MDPI Metabolites (yes, I'm aware of the general opinion of MDPI as a likely predatory publisher, I can't persuade my PI otherwise, so that's where it's going).

I'm reaching the limits of Rmd or qmd -> Word, so I'm considering using the #QuartoPub template by @thias_mittner.

https://github.com/ihrke/mdpi

Has anyone else successfully used this template for an actual journal submission to an MDPI journal?

TIA.

#AcademicPublishing #RStats

Open-source AI tool beats giant LLMs in literature reviews — and gets citations right
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00347-9
Researchers can deploy the cheap and transparent model on their own computer system.

Read full paper here https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-10072-4

#academicchatter #academicpublishing #AcademicFedi

The growing crisis of “AI slop” that endangers scientific publishing.

#FakeScience #InformationOverload #AIEthics #ScientificIntegrity #ResearchQuality #PeerReview #AcademicPublishing #OpenScience #TrustInScience

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/2026/01/ai-slop-science-publishing/685704/

The growing crisis of “AI slop” that endangers scientific publishing.

#FakeScience #InformationOverload #AIEthics #ScientificIntegrity #ResearchQuality #PeerReview #AcademicPublishing #OpenScience #TrustInScience

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/2026/01/ai-slop-science-publishing/685704/

The growing crisis of “AI slop” that endangers scientific publishing.

#FakeScience #InformationOverload #AIEthics #ScientificIntegrity #ResearchQuality #PeerReview #AcademicPublishing #OpenScience #TrustInScience

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/2026/01/ai-slop-science-publishing/685704/

The growing crisis of “AI slop” that endangers scientific publishing.

#FakeScience #InformationOverload #AIEthics #ScientificIntegrity #ResearchQuality #PeerReview #AcademicPublishing #OpenScience #TrustInScience

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/2026/01/ai-slop-science-publishing/685704/

The growing crisis of “AI slop” that endangers scientific publishing.

#FakeScience #InformationOverload #AIEthics #ScientificIntegrity #ResearchQuality #PeerReview #AcademicPublishing #OpenScience #TrustInScience

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/2026/01/ai-slop-science-publishing/685704/

The growing crisis of “AI slop” that endangers scientific publishing. #FakeScience #InformationOverload #AIEthics #ScientificIntegrity #ResearchQuality #PeerReview #AcademicPublishing #OpenScience #TrustInScience www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...

Science Is Drowning in AI Slop

The growing crisis of “AI slop” that endangers scientific publishing. #FakeScience #InformationOverload #AIEthics #ScientificIntegrity #ResearchQuality #PeerReview #AcademicPublishing #OpenScience #TrustInScience www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...

Science Is Drowning in AI Slop

The growing crisis of “AI slop” that endangers scientific publishing. #FakeScience #InformationOverload #AIEthics #ScientificIntegrity #ResearchQuality #PeerReview #AcademicPublishing #OpenScience #TrustInScience www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...

Science Is Drowning in AI Slop

The growing crisis of “AI slop” that endangers scientific publishing. #FakeScience #InformationOverload #AIEthics #ScientificIntegrity #ResearchQuality #PeerReview #AcademicPublishing #OpenScience #TrustInScience www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...

Science Is Drowning in AI Slop

The growing crisis of “AI slop” that endangers scientific publishing. #FakeScience #InformationOverload #AIEthics #ScientificIntegrity #ResearchQuality #PeerReview #AcademicPublishing #OpenScience #TrustInScience www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...

Science Is Drowning in AI Slop

UC Berkeley: How AI is transforming research: More papers, less quality, and a strained review system. “Even as AI tools help researchers write more papers faster, many of these studies are of marginal scientific merit. The resulting flood of polished but potentially superficial work is making it harder for reviewers, funders, and policymakers to separate worthy papers from unimportant and […]

The Hidden Politics of #Journal #Indexing | PublishingState.com, by Zul M.

"Being indexed by major databases determines which journals survive and which quietly disappear. It shapes hiring decisions, promotion criteria, grant evaluations, and national research assessments."

#Academia #AcademicPublishing

https://publishingstate.com/the-hidden-politics-of-journal-indexing/2026/

The Hidden Politics of #Journal #Indexing | PublishingState.com, by Zul M.

"Being indexed by major databases determines which journals survive and which quietly disappear. It shapes hiring decisions, promotion criteria, grant evaluations, and national research assessments."

#Academia #AcademicPublishing

https://publishingstate.com/the-hidden-politics-of-journal-indexing/2026/

The Hidden Politics of #Journal #Indexing | PublishingState.com, by Zul M.

"Being indexed by major databases determines which journals survive and which quietly disappear. It shapes hiring decisions, promotion criteria, grant evaluations, and national research assessments."

#Academia #AcademicPublishing

https://publishingstate.com/the-hidden-politics-of-journal-indexing/2026/

The Hidden Politics of #Journal #Indexing | PublishingState.com, by Zul M.

"Being indexed by major databases determines which journals survive and which quietly disappear. It shapes hiring decisions, promotion criteria, grant evaluations, and national research assessments."

#Academia #AcademicPublishing

https://publishingstate.com/the-hidden-politics-of-journal-indexing/2026/