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Registration is open for our online Autumn Symposium 🍂 on Tues 26 November:
Al & digital tools in scholarly publishing 🤖💻⚙️

See more: https://ease.org.uk/ease-events/autumn-symposium/
Register here: https://ease.org.uk/autumn-symposium-sponsors-2024/autumn-symposium-booking-form/
EASE & Sister Society members (CIEP/ISMTE/MET/NEaT/SENSE): £90 🧑‍🤝‍🧑
Non-members: £180
Those working in LMICs may apply for a free sponsored place. 🌍
#AItools #DigitalPublishing #JournalPublication #AcademicPublishing #OnlineConference #ScholComm #ScholarlyPublishing #DigitalTools #EASEevents

Should journal articles name the handling editor?

James Butcher argues: "We are now at a point where editors, at the very least, need to be named on published papers, especially on high volume journals ... We need editors to take public ownership of the papers that they accept for publication." https://ck.journalology.com/posts/journalology-97-red-vs-green

#PublicationEthics #Transparency #Responsibility #JournalEditing #JournalPublication #PeerReview #ResearchIntegrity

"COMPLAINT against Elsevier, B.V., International Association of Scientific, Technical, and Medical Publishers, John Does 1 through 50, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Sage Publications, Inc., Springer Nature AG & Co. KGaA, Taylor & Francis Group, Ltd., Wolters Kluwer N.V."

Neuroscientist Lucina Uddin is suing major scientific publishers for antitrust breaches for allegedly colluding not to pay peer reviewers.
https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/55069050/Uddin_v_Elsevier,_BV_et_al
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/antitrust/elsevier-other-publishers-hit-with-peer-review-services-lawsuit?context=search&index=0

#PeerReview #JournalPublication #AntiTrust

"COMPLAINT against Elsevier, B.V., International Association of Scientific, Technical, and Medical Publishers, John Does 1 through 50, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Sage Publications, Inc., Springer Nature AG & Co. KGaA, Taylor & Francis Group, Ltd., Wolters Kluwer N.V."

Neuroscientist Lucina Uddin is suing major scientific publishers for antitrust breaches for allegedly colluding not to pay peer reviewers.
https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/55069050/Uddin_v_Elsevier,_BV_et_al
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/antitrust/elsevier-other-publishers-hit-with-peer-review-services-lawsuit?context=search&index=0

#PeerReview #JournalPublication #AntiTrust

It's not too late to submit your feedback on the draft of our Peer Review Committee's Recommendations on Use of Al in Scholarly Communication! 🤖🎓📢

Responses are voluntary and may be submitted anonymously until Monday, 15th September. ⌛

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe9dVTje9YZ0HQJzsPYaMUzfct08Oq9f4o6tm78cE9N-3N1bQ/viewform?pli=1

#AItools #LLMs #PublicationEthics #ChatBots #GenerativeAI #PeerReview #JournalPublication #ScholComm #JournalEditing #ResearchPapers #ResearchWriting

Reporting on a survey of Croatian researchers' perspectives on open access publishing, Lea Škorić noted that the surveyed authors don't use acceptance rate as a criterion for journal selection.

She quips, "They're clearly very confident about their submissions".

#PUBMET2024 #JournalPublication #AcademicChatter #CroatianResearch #CroatianScience #ResearchPapers

Reporting on a survey of Croatian researchers' perspectives on open access publishing, Lea Škorić noted that the surveyed authors don't use acceptance rate as a criterion for journal selection.

She quips, "They're clearly very confident about their submissions".

#PUBMET2024 #JournalPublication #AcademicChatter #CroatianResearch #CroatianScience #ResearchPapers

Catch up on our EASE EDI Committee Webinar - Equity, diversity & inclusion in publishing: initiatives from The Lancet Group. In 2019, the Lancet journals published a special issue on women in science, medicine, & global health. Since then they developed a strategy & hired an EDI Lead. The speakers talked about EDI's importance from a scientific and social perspective, and discussed EDI strategy.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?si=SD3RxY4VZ1TJFcV8&v=Oz8tkmbCGVo&feature=youtu.be
#EquityDiversityInclusion #TheLancet #JournalPublication #ScholarlyPublishing

EASE Update, the new bi-monthly newsletter from the European Association of Science Editors, is out now on LinkedIn and our new mailing list.

Each issue will highlight a few activities from EASE, our members, and our wider circle, sharing new developments, helpful details, and insights to support every Editorial role in the research publishing cycle.

Like and subscribe!
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ease-update-issue-1-easeeditors-jeqge

#AcademicPublishing #JournalEditing #ScienceEditing #LinkedIn #ScholComm #JournalPublication

Recommendations on Use of AI in Scholarly Communication

Our Peer Review Committee invites comments and suggestions on the draft of their new Peer Review Toolkit entry: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WmBratJW1UovKxTEqfPjM8iMeCaAKpRI5VYLxdYkXrs/edit?usp=sharing

Responses may be submitted anonymously till 15 Sept via https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe9dVTje9YZ0HQJzsPYaMUzfct08Oq9f4o6tm78cE9N-3N1bQ/viewform?usp=send_form
We ask organisations or research groups to submit a single response.

#PeerReview #ChatGPT #AIwriting #AItools #LLMs #ScholComm #ArtificialIntelligence #JournalEditing #PublicationEthics #JournalPublication #AcademicPublishing

Recommendations on Use of AI in Scholarly Communication

Our Peer Review Committee invites comments and suggestions on the draft of their new Peer Review Toolkit entry: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WmBratJW1UovKxTEqfPjM8iMeCaAKpRI5VYLxdYkXrs/edit?usp=sharing

Responses may be submitted anonymously till 15 Sept via https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe9dVTje9YZ0HQJzsPYaMUzfct08Oq9f4o6tm78cE9N-3N1bQ/viewform?usp=send_form
We ask organisations or research groups to submit a single response.

#PeerReview #ChatGPT #AIwriting #AItools #LLMs #ScholComm #ArtificialIntelligence #JournalEditing #PublicationEthics #JournalPublication #AcademicPublishing

The new EASE Interactive Checklist for Submitting Authors combines the EASE Authors' Contributions & Conflict of Interest Disclosure form with the EASE Ethics Checklist for Authors into a single, more convenient version with tick boxes, text fields, and updated questions.

Read the editorial in our journal ESE for details, and download the form for use in your own journals.

https://doi.org/10.3897/ese.2024.e129735

#JournalEditing #JournalPublication #EASEPublications #Checklist #AcademicMastodon #EditingTips

Breakaway and Zombie journals: what happens after mass editorial board resignations. @KyleSiler looks into what happens when a journal and its community separate.

Glossa vs Lingua & QSS vs Journal of Informetrics. Lingua suffered, JoI didn't - but both 'Zombies' published more Chinese studies whereas the European and North American researchers moved to the OA breakaways.

#ICSSI #ScienceofScience #JournalPublication #EditorialIndependence #OpenAccess

Breakaway and Zombie journals: what happens after mass editorial board resignations. @KyleSiler looks into what happens when a journal and its community separate.

Glossa vs Lingua & QSS vs Journal of Informetrics. Lingua suffered, JoI didn't - but both 'Zombies' published more Chinese studies whereas the European and North American researchers moved to the OA breakaways.

#ICSSI #ScienceofScience #JournalPublication #EditorialIndependence #OpenAccess

I really enjoyed speaking on the ICSSI conference panel (icssi.org) on junk, fraud, retractions, and paper mills; we got lots of great questions and could have kept going all morning! Thanks to Daniel Larremore for the invite and especially Daniel Acuna for organising and chairing.

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#PaperMills #ICSSI #ScienceofScience #PublicationEthics #JournalPublication #ScientificFraud #AcademicPublishing #Retractions

I really enjoyed speaking on the ICSSI conference panel (icssi.org) on junk, fraud, retractions, and paper mills; we got lots of great questions and could have kept going all morning! Thanks to Daniel Larremore for the invite and especially Daniel Acuna for organising and chairing.

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#PaperMills #ICSSI #ScienceofScience #PublicationEthics #JournalPublication #ScientificFraud #AcademicPublishing #Retractions

Last year, Scopus blitzed all links to journal websites from their profiles in a clumsy reaction to their data being infiltrated by journal hijackers, i.e., fraudsters who pose as a real journal.

Did it work? No. They're still indexing hijacked content, notes Anna Abalkina on Retraction Watch.

https://retractionwatch.com/2024/06/18/journal-hijackers-still-infiltrate-scopus-despite-its-efforts/

#Scopus #HijackedJournals #PublicationEthics #AnnaAbalkina #RetractionWatch #AbstractingAndIndexing #ScientificFraud #JournalPublication #PredatoryJournals #PredatoryPublishing

Last year, Scopus blitzed all links to journal websites from their profiles in a clumsy reaction to their data being infiltrated by journal hijackers, i.e., fraudsters who pose as a real journal.

Did it work? No. They're still indexing hijacked content, notes Anna Abalkina on Retraction Watch.

https://retractionwatch.com/2024/06/18/journal-hijackers-still-infiltrate-scopus-despite-its-efforts/

#Scopus #HijackedJournals #PublicationEthics #AnnaAbalkina #RetractionWatch #AbstractingAndIndexing #ScientificFraud #JournalPublication #PredatoryJournals #PredatoryPublishing

The National Information Standards Organization @NISOInfo guidelines on the effective communication of retractions, removals, and expressions of concern (CREC) are out. https://www.niso.org/standards-committees/crec
#Retractions #ExpressionsOfConcern #NISO #CREC #PublicationEthics #JournalPublication

EASE Peer Review Committee's new toolkit entry has been published - How to Assess Peer Review Quality. See our recommendations for editors below.
https://ease.org.uk/communities/peer-review-committee/peer-review-toolkit/how-to-assess-peer-review-quality/
#PeerReview #JournalEditing #JournalPublication #QualityAssurance

Not a good look for MDPI and Frontiers: a new preprint finds clear signs of self-citation having boosted their journals' Impact Factors.

https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/5t8v7

#JournalImpactFactor #Citations #Bibliometrics #PublicationEthics #ImpactFactor #SelfCitation #AcademicPublishing #JournalPublication

Not a good look for MDPI and Frontiers: a new preprint finds clear signs of self-citation having boosted their journals' Impact Factors.

https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/5t8v7

#JournalImpactFactor #Citations #Bibliometrics #PublicationEthics #ImpactFactor #SelfCitation #AcademicPublishing #JournalPublication

Integrating Indonesian research institutions into The National Research and Innovation Agency of Indonesia (BRIN) was linked to an increase in the growth of research publications and the number of reputable journals they appeared in.

New bibliometric study published in the EASE journal, European Science Editing, by Setiowiji Handoyo, Poppy Indah Dwi Prastiti, & Iwan Ridwan Stiaji: https://doi.org/10.3897/ese.2024.e118015

#Bibliometrics #Indonesia #EuropeanScienceEditing #ResearchAssessment #JournalPublication

Our Peer Review Committee would like feedback on the Toolkit for Editors - How to Assess Peer Review Quality: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hZJbC_HhePlrjl5izfgX_Bbr49LtLqjW5O1qW4a9r6k/

Please submit your views by 1 June: https://forms.gle/CogPWXdxVsexQvqUA

Responses are voluntary and may be anonymous. We ask organisations / research groups to submit a single response.

#PeerReview #JournalEditing #JournalPublication #ScholComm #ScholarlyPublishing

Big move by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to stop paying Article Processing Charges (APCs) to make journal articles open access (OA) at the start of next year. Instead, they will mandate preprints & encourage preprint reviews. APCs made the transition to OA possible, but the tide is turning against this business model.
https://gatesfoundationoa.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/24810787662100-Policy-Refresh-2025-Overview

HT @johannes_lehmann
#OpenAccess #GatesFoundation #ResearchFunding #APCs #PrePrints #JournalPublication #AcademicPublishing #ScholComm #OpenScience

Big move by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to stop paying Article Processing Charges (APCs) to make journal articles open access (OA) at the start of next year. Instead, they will mandate preprints & encourage preprint reviews. APCs made the transition to OA possible, but the tide is turning against this business model.
https://gatesfoundationoa.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/24810787662100-Policy-Refresh-2025-Overview

HT @johannes_lehmann
#OpenAccess #GatesFoundation #ResearchFunding #APCs #PrePrints #JournalPublication #AcademicPublishing #ScholComm #OpenScience

Most scientific journals publish online-only & almost all online first. Online's accessibility, cost-efficiency, & interactivity revolutionized publishing, but some journals are still in print. Are print journals dinosaurs or do they have a role? 🦕🆚💻

This webinar with Are Brean, Editor-in-chief of The Journal of The Norwegian Medical Association, was by our Nordic Chapter, free & open to all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=baOSnYLMWx46wjVP&v=ipXGOnOr61w
#EASEevents #JournalPublication #ScholComm #ScholarlyPublishing #FreeWebinar

New in European Science Editing: Nearly 1/2 of health sciences journals in South Africa don't mention statistics in their instructions for authors or make cursory references. Gina Joubert concludes that editors & publishers must give more detail on reporting requirements for statistical methods in quantitative research articles.
https://doi.org/10.3897/ese.2024.e114734
#EuropeanScienceEditing #EASEpublications #HealthStatistics #JournalPublication #ReportingGuidelines #StatisticalMethods #SouthAfrica #Statistics

Authors often use template wording in correspondence, notes Adam Day. Is this something editors need to worry about? https://medium.com/p/66f5bb7203c5
#PaperMills #JournalEditing #JournalPublication #ScholComm

Should journals ask peer reviewers for an accept/revise/reject recommendation?

#PeerReview #AcademicChatter #AcademicMastodon #AcademicPublishing #JournalEditing #JournalPublication #Poll

Should journals ask peer reviewers for an accept/revise/reject recommendation? @MarkHanson says no. What do you think? (poll below)

#PeerReview #JournalEditing #JournalPublication #AcademicPublishing #AcademicChatter

The EASE Awards for 2022/23 were announced at an online event on Wed 7 Feb: https://m.youtube.com/watch?si=oHnAi42P6tn_9RDo&v=G2oUw9Bwu3k&feature=youtu.be

Congratulations to all those nominated by our membership and, of course, our award winners:
Iryna Izarova, Roohi Ghosh, @pippasmart, and our other journal and conference winners. 🏆

https://ease.org.uk/ease-awards-2022-23/

#JournalEditing #JournalPublication #EASEevents #WinnerWinnerChickenDinner

Our Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion committee has launched a new survey on the roles, policies, and practices around EDI across academic publishing.

We invite all involved in journal editing to complete this short survey (<10 mins): https://ease.org.uk/event/59609/

The survey closes 31 January; the results will be presented in a webinar on 19 March.

#EASEedi #EquityDiversityandInclusion #EDI #AcademicPublishing #DEIA #JournalEditing #JournalPublication #ScholComm #ScienceEditing #AcademicLife

We are excited to open voting for the EASE Awards 2022/23, until Jan 31:
https://ease.org.uk/ease-awards-2022-23/

View our short videos on nominees in these categories:
🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Community Contributor
💫 Rising Star
💡 Best Initiative

Prizes will be awarded on Wed 7 Feb. Register for the Awards Event at https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_8hDcja4_Tmq57udqMa7fiA#/registration

#EASEevents #EASEawards #Winning #Awards #ScholComm #JournalEditing #JournalPublication

The EASE peer review committee is asking for feedback. What resources would you like to have at hand: Measuring peer review quality? Handling reviewer misconduct? The impact of different peer review models? Other ideas?

Please let us know:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScwL289gsGT7npRFxPW87yGLXkkvUdCGqKdVHV1vZ6UUkYEYA/viewform

#PeerReview #JournalEditing #JournalPublication #PublicationEthics #Survey

We are very pleased to have been awarded the DOAJ Seal for our journal, European Science Editing.

The #DOAJ Seal is awarded to journals that demonstrate best practice in #OpenAccess publishing, including long-term preservation, use of persistent identifiers, discoverability, reuse policies, and authors' rights.

Congratulations to the Editor-in-Chief, @ksenijab, and all her Editorial team.

#EuropeanScienceEditing #DirectoryofOpenAccessJournals #JournalPublication #JournalEditing

Researchers can hold paradoxical beliefs about corrections: one, corrections are good for science; two, correcting their own work is bad. James Parry introduces our webinar on corrections with Lauren Flintoft and Gráinne McNamara, who both work on this on a daily basis.

#PublicationEthics #ScholComm #JournalEditing #JournalPublication

Researchers can hold paradoxical beliefs about corrections: one, corrections are good for science; two, correcting their own work is bad. James Parry introduces our webinar on corrections with Lauren Flintoft and Gráinne McNamara, who both work on this on a daily basis.

#PublicationEthics #ScholComm #JournalEditing #JournalPublication

"STM Solutions, the standards and technology arm of STM , is developing the Integrity Hub on behalf of STM members. Current activities include creating a Paper Mill Checker Tool and a Duplicate Submission Detection Tool."
- Deborah Kahn, COPE trustee 🧵

https://publicationethics.org/news/paper-mills-united-act

#PublicationEthics #PaperMills #JournalPublication #ResearchIntegrity #ScienceAndTechnology #STMAssociation #CommitteeOnPublicationEthics

Springer Nature are looking for a Research Integrity Adviser in the resolutions team in London, Dordrecht, or Heidelberg, to join Tim Kersjes and Chris Graf.

https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/3488211272/

#ResearchIntegrity #PublishingJobs #JobsInLondon #JobsInGermany #JournalPublication #Dordrecht #Heidelberg #SpringerNature

"A session at CSE’s 2022 Annual Meeting highlighted some ways that journal editors can launch and sustain a successful social media campaign."

Gunn E. Social media 101 for journals: how to create and sustain an effective campaign. Sci Ed. 2022;45:141-142.
https://doi.org/10.36591/SE-D-4504-10

#SocialMedia #JournalPublication #SciComm #CouncilOfScienceEditors #EmilieGunn #SocialMediaTips #ScienceEditor