#journalpublishing — Public Fediverse posts

"For more than a century, scientific journals have been the pipes through which knowledge of the natural world flows into our culture. Now they’re being clogged with AI slop."

- Ross Andersen at The Atlantic

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

#TheAtlanticMagazine #RossAndersen #AIslop #AIethics #AIresearch #SciComm #JournalPublishing #JournalEditing #PublicationEthics #ResearchIntegrity #ScienceEditing #ScientificMisconduct #ScienceFraud #AIinAcademia #AcademiaIA

I'd not heard of Fengkai Group before I saw their LinkedIn advert. They're offering paid positions to be a guest editor for special issues in SCI- and Ei Compendex-indexed journals (the latter is Elsevier's engineering index). That's weird, I thought.

Csaba Szabo has heard of them: he commented on his guest post on Leonid Schneider's blog about uncovering paper mill activity, at https://forbetterscience.com/2025/05/19/a-sting-inside-a-papermill/#comment-762891, to note the worrying approach Fengkai made to him in May.

Christopher Tang got in similar email in June: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/lets-stand-up-against-unethical-research-behavior-christopher-tang-eur3c

More than 20 of my LinkedIn connections follow Fengkai Group and several are connected to the LinkedIn account that posted the advert.

We all need to be careful not to legitimise questionable organisations by associating with them.

#PublicationEthics #GuestEditors #SpecialIssues #JournalPublishing #PaperMills #AcademicPublishing

Here's a blog post by @serhii & @Maryna_Nazarovets that I commissioned, lightly edited, and made a figure for, on how university journals can avoid having too narrow networks.

https://blog.doaj.org/2025/12/04/editorial-endogamy-and-endogeny-challenges-on-the-path-to-doaj/

#JournalPublishing #JournalEditing #PublicationEthics #InstitutionalPublishing #UniversityPresses #UniversityJournals #Endogamy #Endogeny #Nepotism

Wake up, babe, new COPE guidelines just dropped!

Version 3 of the Retraction guidelines and brand new Expression of Concern guidelines are out now. I co-authored the long-awaited EoC guidelines and v.2 of the Retraction guidelines.

https://publicationethics.org/guidance/guideline/expressions-concern
https://publicationethics.org/guidance/guideline/retraction-guidelines

#CommitteeOnPublicationEthics #Retractions #ExpressionsOfConcern #PublicationEthics #JournalPublishing #JournalEditing #ScholComm

Damian Pattinson of @eLife (and my former boss at PLOS ONE) at The Royal Society's Future of Scientific Publishing conference describes the devastating effect on their submissions of Clarivate removing their Impact Factor due to their change in peer review model, then asks why other journals, including Science, don't renounce their own IFs.

#SciComm #JournalPublishing #ImpactFactor #Clarivate #WebOfScience #PeerReview #TheRoyalSociety #FutureOfScientificPublishing #Citations #Bibliometrics #ResearchImpact #ResearchAssessment

Publishing shouldn't be a Kafka novel! Editorial offices need to sort themselves out. One problem is outsourcing to companies that use undertrained staff working from inflexible scripts.

#JournalPublishing #JournalEditing #EditorialOffices #EditorialScreening #AcademicPublishing #Kafkaesque

Think. Check. Submit. helps teach researchers and others to identify predatory and questionable journals. Sofie Wennström presents at our conference in Oslo on how the tips guide authors as an alternative to block lists, allow lists, and the uncritical use of journal metrics. They also help journals ensure they are being and presenting as trustworthy.

#PredatoryPublishing #PredatoryJournals #ThinkCheckSubmit #JournalPublishing #CriticalAppraisal #PublicationEthics #EASEevents #EASEoslo

Think. Check. Submit. helps teach researchers and others to identify predatory and questionable journals. Sofie Wennström presents at our conference in Oslo on how the tips guide authors as an alternative to block lists, allow lists, and the uncritical use of journal metrics. They also help journals ensure they are being and presenting as trustworthy.

#PredatoryPublishing #PredatoryJournals #ThinkCheckSubmit #JournalPublishing #CriticalAppraisal #PublicationEthics #EASEevents #EASEoslo

Think. Check. Submit. helps teach researchers and others to identify predatory and questionable journals. Sofie Wennström presents at our conference in Oslo on how the tips guide authors as an alternative to block lists, allow lists, and the uncritical use of journal metrics. They also help journals ensure they are being and presenting as trustworthy.

#PredatoryPublishing #PredatoryJournals #ThinkCheckSubmit #JournalPublishing #CriticalAppraisal #PublicationEthics #EASEevents #EASEoslo

Think. Check. Submit. helps teach researchers and others to identify predatory and questionable journals. Sofie Wennström presents at our conference in Oslo on how the tips guide authors as an alternative to block lists, allow lists, and the uncritical use of journal metrics. They also help journals ensure they are being and presenting as trustworthy.

#PredatoryPublishing #PredatoryJournals #ThinkCheckSubmit #JournalPublishing #CriticalAppraisal #PublicationEthics #EASEevents #EASEoslo

Joanna Ball of @DOAJ presents how the index is a gold standard for Open Access journals and is used as a trust marker by librarians, researchers, and other literature services.

#OpenAccess #JournalPublishing #PublicationEthics #AbstractingAndIndexing #AcademicJournals #AcademicPublishing #EASEevents #EASEoslo

Russia's invasion of Ukraine affected their scholarly journals because the occupiers appropriated university journals based in those territories, says Iryna Izarova.

Working with the ISSN International Centre & the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, new rules for ISSNs in occupied & disputed territories were developed.
#ISSNs #EASEoslo #EASEevents #UkraineRussiaWar #EASEukraine #PublicationEthics #GeoPolitics #GlobalConflict #InternationalLaw #OccupiedTerritories #JournalPublishing

"A toxicology-focused journal is stepping in after the decision by Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP), which is published by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), to pause the acceptance of new manuscripts after receiving a letter from the US Department of Justice.”

https://cen.acs.org/policy/publishing/NIH-publication-halts-manuscript-acceptanceToxScisteps/103/web/2025/05

#NIH #JournalPublishing #JournalEditing #ScholComm #EnvironmentalHealth #USgov

My UKSG 2025 starts with Beth Bayley from Karger on their journey since deciding fo head for OA in 2018.

They've "tried it all": flipping, hybrid, transformative agreements, Subscribe To Open (S20), Diamond.

There's barriers to adopting each OA business model.

#OpenAccess #JournalPublishing #UKSG2025 #BusinessModels #Karger

EASE Update - Issue 3
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ease-update-issue-3-easeeditors-c6aie

We chat about Bluesky, poster presentations - and invite YOU to submit one to our Oslo Conference - take a look at some of the recent community action across the Association, highlight the latest publications from European Science Editing including a new Structured Peer Review Checklist, and more.

#EASEupdate #JournalPublishing #ResearchPublishing
#JournalEditing #ScienceEditing #PeerReview #Conference2025 #PosterPresentations

The editorial board of European Science Editing met earlier, brainstorming and strategizing to take the journal to new heights. 🚀 Stay tuned for even more impactful research and insightful articles! #ESEJournal #EditorialBoard #JournalEditing #JournalPublishing

EASE Webinar: Competing interests in health and medical journal publishing
Tuesday, 31 January 2023 10am (UK time)

Mabel Chew, Senior Editor at The Lancet, Sydney, Australia unpacks what competing interests are and discusses evidence on COIs in relation to health and medical journals.

https://ease.org.uk/event/ease-webinar-competing-interests-in-health-and-medical-journal-publishing/

#EuropeanAssociationOfScienceEditors #EASEevents #EASEeditors #COI #ConflictsOfInterest #JournalPublishing #MedicalJournals #HealthResearch #Webinar #CompetingInterests #TheLancet #COIs

New Year seems an appropriate time to finally add an #intro of sorts here. Below is an A-Z of things I spend time with/would like to spend more time with; some in a professional capacity, some in a highly unprofessional one:
#Academia
#Bathrooms
#Chess
#DigitalNomad
#Editing
#ForeignLanguages
#Guitar
#Housesitting
#Irish
#JournalPublishing
#Kayaking
#LaTeX
#Mathematics
#Narrowboats
#Ornithology
#Puzzles
#Quizzes
#Reading
#Strolling
#TableTennis
#Ukulele
#Vim
#Writing
#Xenization
#Youtube
#Za

"There is already a rapidly accelerating race taking place between paper mills using ever more complex AI to produce fake papers at scale and publishers employing ever more sophisticated AI technology to detect issues."

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2022/12/15/ai-paper-mills-and-image-generation-require-a-co-ordinated-response-from-academic-publishers/

#PaperMills #AcademicPublishing #ScienceFraud #F1000Research #TaylorAndFrancis #AI #AIinScience #ImpactOfSocialSciences #SabinaAlam #RebeccaLawrence #FakeScience #PublicationEthics #ResearchIntegrity #AIArmsRace #SciencePublishing #JournalPublishing

I've done a regular intro but not a hashtag intro. Feels like high time I shared current interests (alphabetically) so that we can help each other find supportive communities.

Work: #AcademicPublishing #AcWri #AmEditing #bibliography #BookPublishing #ConsciousLanguage #CPD #editors #indexing #JournalPublishing #proofreaders #references #SelfEmployed

Non-work: #ArtAndCraft #books #coffee #DifficultConversations #doodling #inclusivity #LanguageLearning #parenting #nature #RunOnEditors #StetWalk