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  1. CW: Recent death

    Ruth Francis, a science communication consultant, has died. She headed comms at the journal publisher BMC shortly after I left, and went on to do the same at Springer Nature and F1000 before becoming a consultant, in which role I briefly got to work with her. She will be missed. linkedin.com/posts/it-is-with-

    #Obituary #JournalPublishing #SciComm

  2. 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 forbetterscience.com/2025/05/1, to note the worrying approach Fengkai made to him in May.

    Christopher Tang got in similar email in June: linkedin.com/pulse/lets-stand-

    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

  3. 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 forbetterscience.com/2025/05/1, to note the worrying approach Fengkai made to him in May.

    Christopher Tang got in similar email in June: linkedin.com/pulse/lets-stand-

    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

  4. 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 forbetterscience.com/2025/05/1, to note the worrying approach Fengkai made to him in May.

    Christopher Tang got in similar email in June: linkedin.com/pulse/lets-stand-

    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

  5. 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 forbetterscience.com/2025/05/1, to note the worrying approach Fengkai made to him in May.

    Christopher Tang got in similar email in June: linkedin.com/pulse/lets-stand-

    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

  6. 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 forbetterscience.com/2025/05/1, to note the worrying approach Fengkai made to him in May.

    Christopher Tang got in similar email in June: linkedin.com/pulse/lets-stand-

    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

  7. "The staff of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the journal that reports on health trends and emerging infectious threats, was also laid off. The publication’s storied history includes a June 1981 report that five previously healthy gay men were treated for an unusual pneumonia — the first hint of the AIDS epidemic."

    MMWR has been an important public health publication for decades.

    nytimes.com/2025/10/11/us/poli

    [Edit: this was a cock-up. 🤦
    "workers who produce Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report may have mistakenly received reduction-in-force notices because of coding errors in their job classifications." statnews.com/2025/10/11/cdc-mo]

    #CentersForDiseaseControlAndPrevention #MMWR #MorbidityAndMortalityWeeklyReport #USpolitics #JournalPublishing #ScholComm #MedicalJournals

  8. "The staff of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the journal that reports on health trends and emerging infectious threats, was also laid off. The publication’s storied history includes a June 1981 report that five previously healthy gay men were treated for an unusual pneumonia — the first hint of the AIDS epidemic."

    MMWR has been an important public health publication for decades.

    nytimes.com/2025/10/11/us/poli

    [Edit: this was a cock-up. 🤦
    "workers who produce Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report may have mistakenly received reduction-in-force notices because of coding errors in their job classifications." statnews.com/2025/10/11/cdc-mo]

    #CentersForDiseaseControlAndPrevention #MMWR #MorbidityAndMortalityWeeklyReport #USpolitics #JournalPublishing #ScholComm #MedicalJournals

  9. "The staff of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the journal that reports on health trends and emerging infectious threats, was also laid off. The publication’s storied history includes a June 1981 report that five previously healthy gay men were treated for an unusual pneumonia — the first hint of the AIDS epidemic."

    MMWR has been an important public health publication for decades.

    nytimes.com/2025/10/11/us/poli

    [Edit: this was a cock-up. 🤦
    "workers who produce Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report may have mistakenly received reduction-in-force notices because of coding errors in their job classifications." statnews.com/2025/10/11/cdc-mo]

    #CentersForDiseaseControlAndPrevention #MMWR #MorbidityAndMortalityWeeklyReport #USpolitics #JournalPublishing #ScholComm #MedicalJournals

  10. "The staff of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the journal that reports on health trends and emerging infectious threats, was also laid off. The publication’s storied history includes a June 1981 report that five previously healthy gay men were treated for an unusual pneumonia — the first hint of the AIDS epidemic."

    MMWR has been an important public health publication for decades.

    nytimes.com/2025/10/11/us/poli

    [Edit: this was a cock-up. 🤦
    "workers who produce Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report may have mistakenly received reduction-in-force notices because of coding errors in their job classifications." statnews.com/2025/10/11/cdc-mo]

    #CentersForDiseaseControlAndPrevention #MMWR #MorbidityAndMortalityWeeklyReport #USpolitics #JournalPublishing #ScholComm #MedicalJournals

  11. "The staff of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the journal that reports on health trends and emerging infectious threats, was also laid off. The publication’s storied history includes a June 1981 report that five previously healthy gay men were treated for an unusual pneumonia — the first hint of the AIDS epidemic."

    MMWR has been an important public health publication for decades.

    nytimes.com/2025/10/11/us/poli

    [Edit: this was a cock-up. 🤦
    "workers who produce Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report may have mistakenly received reduction-in-force notices because of coding errors in their job classifications." statnews.com/2025/10/11/cdc-mo]

    #CentersForDiseaseControlAndPrevention #MMWR #MorbidityAndMortalityWeeklyReport #USpolitics #JournalPublishing #ScholComm #MedicalJournals

  12. 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

  13. It's often said that journal publishing is still using 17th-century technology, but I think that's unfair. After all, they didn't have DOIs in the 1600s.

    #SciComm #JournalPublishing #HistoryOfScience

  14. 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

  15. Our environment & sustainability committee (ease.org.uk/communities/specia) presents the UN SDG (Sustainable Development Goals) Publishers Compact, the EASE Manifesto, and the EDI Survey, as well as our soon-to-be-launched checklist to implement the SDGs, which can be exported as a PDF and can be organisation-wide or journal-level.

    ease.org.uk/ease-events/18th-e

    #SDGs #Sustainability #EASEevents #EASEoslo #JournalPublishing #EDI #EquityDiversityInclusion

  16. Our environment & sustainability committee (ease.org.uk/communities/specia) presents the UN SDG (Sustainable Development Goals) Publishers Compact, the EASE Manifesto, and the EDI Survey, as well as our soon-to-be-launched checklist to implement the SDGs, which can be exported as a PDF and can be organisation-wide or journal-level.

    ease.org.uk/ease-events/18th-e

    #SDGs #Sustainability #EASEevents #EASEoslo #JournalPublishing #EDI #EquityDiversityInclusion

  17. Our environment & sustainability committee (ease.org.uk/communities/specia) presents the UN SDG (Sustainable Development Goals) Publishers Compact, the EASE Manifesto, and the EDI Survey, as well as our soon-to-be-launched checklist to implement the SDGs, which can be exported as a PDF and can be organisation-wide or journal-level.

    ease.org.uk/ease-events/18th-e

    #SDGs #Sustainability #EASEevents #EASEoslo #JournalPublishing #EDI #EquityDiversityInclusion

  18. Our environment & sustainability committee (ease.org.uk/communities/specia) presents the UN SDG (Sustainable Development Goals) Publishers Compact, the EASE Manifesto, and the EDI Survey, as well as our soon-to-be-launched checklist to implement the SDGs, which can be exported as a PDF and can be organisation-wide or journal-level.

    ease.org.uk/ease-events/18th-e

    #SDGs #Sustainability #EASEevents #EASEoslo #JournalPublishing #EDI #EquityDiversityInclusion

  19. 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

  20. 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

  21. 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

  22. 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

  23. 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

  24. 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

  25. 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

  26. 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

  27. 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

  28. 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

  29. 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

  30. 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

  31. 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

  32. 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

  33. "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.”

    cen.acs.org/policy/publishing/

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