#journalpublishing — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #journalpublishing, aggregated by home.social.
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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. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/it-is-with-great-sadness-that-we-share-the-share-7442234166001303552-QYlI
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"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
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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
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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
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"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.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/us/politics/trump-administration-cdc-layoffs.html
[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." https://www.statnews.com/2025/10/11/cdc-morbidity-and-mortality-weekly-report-staff-fired/]#CentersForDiseaseControlAndPrevention #MMWR #MorbidityAndMortalityWeeklyReport #USpolitics #JournalPublishing #ScholComm #MedicalJournals
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New blog ✍️ LSE Press Journal Round-up, our journals newsletter, launches later this month. Learn more here: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsepress/2025/09/03/lse-press-to-launch-journals-newsletter/ @lseblogs.bsky.social #ScholarlyComms #JournalPublishing #OpenAccess
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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I have just discovered a thing of joy and wonder.
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Our environment & sustainability committee (https://ease.org.uk/communities/special-interest-committees/environment-and-sustainability-committee/) 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.
https://ease.org.uk/ease-events/18th-ease-conference/18th-ease-conference-scientific-programme/18th-ease-conference-session-11/
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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
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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
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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.”
#NIH #JournalPublishing #JournalEditing #ScholComm #EnvironmentalHealth #USgov
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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
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EASE Update - Issue 3
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ease-update-issue-3-easeeditors-c6aieWe 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
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From a faculty friend on Facebook: "After slaying the manuscript revisions, we're now being asked for a 5-star Google review by this well-known journal. 🤨"
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Ask the Community — Thoughts on a Class Action Lawsuit Brought Against Scholarly Publishers, By David Crotty, @Lisalibrarian, Sven Fund, Sami Benchekroun, Rick Anderson, Matt Hodgkinson, @aj_boston, Alison Mudditt.
My first time commenting for The Scholarly Kitchen.
#TheScholarlyKitchen #ClassActionLawSuit #ScholarlyPublishing #PublicationEthics #JournalPublishing #ScholComm #AntiTrust
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Voting for the EASE awards closes tomorrow - then come along a week on Wednesday to see who won.
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@Co_Biologists has "announced a new biodiversity initiative – The Forest of Biologists – through which we’re planting and protecting trees on behalf of the communities that surround our journals" - Claire Moulton writes in @UKSGofficial eNews.A great idea! We have an EASE virtual forest too.
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For @peerrevweek 2023 last week, our Research Integrity Manager @mattjhodgkinson was interviewed by Buchi Okereafor for The Royal Society blog to give an "overview on how AI tools are shaping the future of publishing, and how reviewers, authors and publishers can adapt to thrive in this changing landscape."
https://royalsociety.org/blog/2023/09/ai-and-the-future-of-scholarly-publishing-2/
#PeerReview #AItools #JournalPublishing #PeerReviewWeek #FutureOfPublishing #RoyalSociety