#publishorperish — Public Fediverse posts
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Has this always been a thing?
I just got an email from a scientific journal publisher, informing me that an article of mine from 2024 was “among the most viewed articles” (in 2025, of the articles published in 2024).
And I mean, OK, I'll take it, but I'm sitting here wondering: is this something new, or has it been going around for a while and I just haven't heard of it? Are they really trying to get authors to publish with them with such “dopamine hit”?
I knew that sites like academia.edu and researchgate.net were trying to go the way of “social media for researchers” but this is the first time I see something like that from a more “serious” publisher.
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Has this always been a thing?
I just got an email from a scientific journal publisher, informing me that an article of mine from 2024 was “among the most viewed articles” (in 2025, of the articles published in 2024).
And I mean, OK, I'll take it, but I'm sitting here wondering: is this something new, or has it been going around for a while and I just haven't heard of it? Are they really trying to get authors to publish with them with such “dopamine hit”?
I knew that sites like academia.edu and researchgate.net were trying to go the way of “social media for researchers” but this is the first time I see something like that from a more “serious” publisher.
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Has this always been a thing?
I just got an email from a scientific journal publisher, informing me that an article of mine from 2024 was “among the most viewed articles” (in 2025, of the articles published in 2024).
And I mean, OK, I'll take it, but I'm sitting here wondering: is this something new, or has it been going around for a while and I just haven't heard of it? Are they really trying to get authors to publish with them with such “dopamine hit”?
I knew that sites like academia.edu and researchgate.net were trying to go the way of “social media for researchers” but this is the first time I see something like that from a more “serious” publisher.
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Has this always been a thing?
I just got an email from a scientific journal publisher, informing me that an article of mine from 2024 was “among the most viewed articles” (in 2025, of the articles published in 2024).
And I mean, OK, I'll take it, but I'm sitting here wondering: is this something new, or has it been going around for a while and I just haven't heard of it? Are they really trying to get authors to publish with them with such “dopamine hit”?
I knew that sites like academia.edu and researchgate.net were trying to go the way of “social media for researchers” but this is the first time I see something like that from a more “serious” publisher.
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Has this always been a thing?
I just got an email from a scientific journal publisher, informing me that an article of mine from 2024 was “among the most viewed articles” (in 2025, of the articles published in 2024).
And I mean, OK, I'll take it, but I'm sitting here wondering: is this something new, or has it been going around for a while and I just haven't heard of it? Are they really trying to get authors to publish with them with such “dopamine hit”?
I knew that sites like academia.edu and researchgate.net were trying to go the way of “social media for researchers” but this is the first time I see something like that from a more “serious” publisher.
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1902 publiziert, 100 Jahre nahezu ignoriert, heute ein Klassiker mit über 2.250 Zitierungen. William Bayliss' Paper zur myogenen Reaktion wäre im heutigen System des #PublishOrPerish als wertlos aussortiert worden. Was das über moderne Wissenschaft verrät: https://www.laborjournal.de/blog/?p=14920#more-14920
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I figured, an endless runner game would work well as a metaphor for the modern academic publishing culture of #publishorperish: Collect pages and data for your papers while dodging paywalls, teaching, and APCs and try to get tenured.
If you agree that maybe this isn't how things should work, I can reassure you: Thousands of signatories of SFDORA.org and coara.eu are reforming the system. If you want a real-life community boost, check out
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[Veille] court papier dans les Débats de @lemonde montrant l'inanité du #publishORperish, des #rankings et des modèles de publication basés sur les APCs :« Ceux qui se lamentent du retard de la recherche occidentale risquent de tomber dans le piège tendu par l’Etat-parti chinois » https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2026/02/19/ceux-qui-se-lamentent-du-retard-de-la-recherche-occidentale-risquent-de-tomber-dans-le-piege-tendu-par-l-etat-parti-chinois_6667432_3232.html
#papermills #chine #publishing #science #researchintegrity #ethics #evaluation #libertéAcadémique -
[Veille] court papier dans les Débats de @lemonde montrant l'inanité du #publishORperish, des #rankings et des modèles de publication basés sur les APCs :« Ceux qui se lamentent du retard de la recherche occidentale risquent de tomber dans le piège tendu par l’Etat-parti chinois » https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2026/02/19/ceux-qui-se-lamentent-du-retard-de-la-recherche-occidentale-risquent-de-tomber-dans-le-piege-tendu-par-l-etat-parti-chinois_6667432_3232.html
#papermills #chine #publishing #science #researchintegrity #ethics #evaluation #libertéAcadémique -
"At its core the reproducibility crisis is a crisis of trust. The findings scientists publish and tout as facts, are often not replicable by others."
Nate Breznau argues that the reproducibility crisis is, at its core, a structural one - and that there is a solution: Diamond #OpenAccess weakens profit driven publishing, supports more ethical research, and improves the knowledge base of generative AI 👇
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Writing A Scientific Article - A Step-By-Step Guide For Beginners
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eurger.2015.08.005 <-- shared paper
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https://doi.org/10.1002/bes2.1258 <-- shared paper
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[older papers, but good guidance; we had all this in our university training, (hopefully) to good effect, but some reminders for us all, myself included!]
“Many young researchers find it extremely difficult to write scientific articles, and few receive specific training in the art of presenting their research work in written format. Yet, publication is often vital for career advancement, to obtain funding, to obtain academic qualifications, or for all these reasons. [They] describe here the basic steps to follow in writing a scientific article..."
#writing #technicalwriting #guidance #primer #research #scientificpaper #training #education #publication #career #publishorperish #academic #professional #scientific #article #format #structure #composition #components #elements #successful -
"Many of the loudest Open Science advocates are deeply embedded in the very systems they critique such as traditional publishing, prestige-driven academia and grant-dependent research cultures. They speak the language of reform while continuing to “play the game” remarkably well. Researchers who sit on advisory boards talk about preprints but then celebrate publishing their latest Nature paper"
https://www.themodernpeer.com/people-the-problem-in-open-science/
#OpenScience #OpenData #ScienceReform #Metascience #ResearchEvaluation #UniversityRankings #PublishOrPerish
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The spectrum of behaviours we cover in this trilogy of papers is documenting what #PublishOrPerish incentives do to drive publisher and author behaviours. PISS is really about authors taking advantage of opportunities afforded to them - and it doesn't really matter where those come from. 2/5
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"This essay considers the emergent phenomenon of ‘junkification’ in academic research publishing. The term junkification was originally coined to describe the increasing volume of low-quality content and products permeating digital platforms. Extending junkification to online academic publishing, we draw on literature that frames academic research as an increasingly commodified good. We theorise that this commodification has enabled the same mechanisms that underpin the shift to junkification in digital marketplaces (and their subsequent degradation) to permeate online academic publishing. We argue that this trend represents a further perversion of the long-standing and pervasive ‘publish or perish’ culture in academia. As commercial publishing interests converge with new technologies, a system emerges where scholars increasingly bear the costs of low-esteem publishing that limits genuine scholarly contributions. We analyse the structural and cultural shifts within academic publishing that facilitate and perpetuate the junkification of research, and call for a re-evaluation of the underlying values and practices sustaining scholarly communication to counteract this trend."
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13505084251399576
#Science #AcademicPublishing #Universities #HigherEd #Research #PublishOrPerish #Junkification
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Immer mehr Artikel, immer weniger Zeit zum Lesen. Der durchschnittliche Output pro Forschendem wächst exponentiell – aber der Fortschritt nicht.
Das Paper argumentiert: Das #PublishOrPerish -Paradigma verdrängt Risikobereitschaft, Kreativität und Sorgfalt.
Peer Review leidet unter Überlastung, Qualitätsmaßstäbe verschwimmen, und selbst Betrug bleibt oft unentdeckt.
Statt Erkenntnis wird Quantität belohnt – eine gefährliche Verzerrung wissenschaftlicher Praxis.Dazu kommt:
Unser westlich-englisch dominiertes Publikationssystem marginalisiert andere Sprachräume und Regionen.
Forschende im Globalen Süden oder aus nicht-englischsprachigen Kontexten werden strukturell benachteiligt: geringere Sichtbarkeit, weniger Zitierbarkeit, geringere Chancen im Förderwettbewerb.
Alternative Modelle – etwa „Diamond Open Access“-Initiativen in Lateinamerika – zeigen, dass faire, community-getragene Publikation möglich ist. Doch sie werden vom globalen Bewertungssystem kaum anerkannt. -
Bringt KI die Wissenschaft in Gefahr? - 3sat-Mediathek
https://www.3sat.de/wissen/nano/251104-sendung-bringt-ki-die-wissenschaft-in-gefahr-nano-100.html
"Es gibt immer mehr gefälschte Studien und Fake-Publikationen - auch in Fachzeitschriften. Künstliche Intelligenz macht das Fälschen leichter. "
Interview mit Bernhard Sabel (Dazu: Stockholmer Erklärung
Forschende fordern Reformen im Publikationssystem: https://www.forschung-und-lehre.de/forschung/forschende-fordern-reformen-im-publikationssystem-7378)#FakeScience #PaperMills #ImpactFactor #PublishOrPerish #jounsls #ki #ai #3SatNano #StockholmerErklärung #StockholmDeclaration
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Bringt KI die Wissenschaft in Gefahr? - 3sat-Mediathek
https://www.3sat.de/wissen/nano/251104-sendung-bringt-ki-die-wissenschaft-in-gefahr-nano-100.html
"Es gibt immer mehr gefälschte Studien und Fake-Publikationen - auch in Fachzeitschriften. Künstliche Intelligenz macht das Fälschen leichter. "
Interview mit Bernhard Sabel (Dazu: Stockholmer Erklärung
Forschende fordern Reformen im Publikationssystem: https://www.forschung-und-lehre.de/forschung/forschende-fordern-reformen-im-publikationssystem-7378)#FakeScience #PaperMills #ImpactFactor #PublishOrPerish #jounsls #ki #ai #3SatNano #StockholmerErklärung #StockholmDeclaration
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Bringt KI die Wissenschaft in Gefahr? - 3sat-Mediathek
https://www.3sat.de/wissen/nano/251104-sendung-bringt-ki-die-wissenschaft-in-gefahr-nano-100.html
"Es gibt immer mehr gefälschte Studien und Fake-Publikationen - auch in Fachzeitschriften. Künstliche Intelligenz macht das Fälschen leichter. "
Interview mit Bernhard Sabel (Dazu: Stockholmer Erklärung
Forschende fordern Reformen im Publikationssystem: https://www.forschung-und-lehre.de/forschung/forschende-fordern-reformen-im-publikationssystem-7378)#FakeScience #PaperMills #ImpactFactor #PublishOrPerish #jounsls #ki #ai #3SatNano #StockholmerErklärung #StockholmDeclaration
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Bringt KI die Wissenschaft in Gefahr? - 3sat-Mediathek
https://www.3sat.de/wissen/nano/251104-sendung-bringt-ki-die-wissenschaft-in-gefahr-nano-100.html
"Es gibt immer mehr gefälschte Studien und Fake-Publikationen - auch in Fachzeitschriften. Künstliche Intelligenz macht das Fälschen leichter. "
Interview mit Bernhard Sabel (Dazu: Stockholmer Erklärung
Forschende fordern Reformen im Publikationssystem: https://www.forschung-und-lehre.de/forschung/forschende-fordern-reformen-im-publikationssystem-7378)#FakeScience #PaperMills #ImpactFactor #PublishOrPerish #jounsls #ki #ai #3SatNano #StockholmerErklärung #StockholmDeclaration
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Bringt KI die Wissenschaft in Gefahr? - 3sat-Mediathek
https://www.3sat.de/wissen/nano/251104-sendung-bringt-ki-die-wissenschaft-in-gefahr-nano-100.html
"Es gibt immer mehr gefälschte Studien und Fake-Publikationen - auch in Fachzeitschriften. Künstliche Intelligenz macht das Fälschen leichter. "
Interview mit Bernhard Sabel (Dazu: Stockholmer Erklärung
Forschende fordern Reformen im Publikationssystem: https://www.forschung-und-lehre.de/forschung/forschende-fordern-reformen-im-publikationssystem-7378)#FakeScience #PaperMills #ImpactFactor #PublishOrPerish #jounsls #ki #ai #3SatNano #StockholmerErklärung #StockholmDeclaration
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Much has been said about the #PublishOrPerish culture and its damaging effects on academia. But in a recent paper I stepped briefly into the role of advocatus diaboli:
📄 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00210-025-04651-5
Yes, publish or perish has its risks. But in systems marked by academic inertia, lack of innovation, or deeply entrenched hierarchies, this very pressure can sometimes be the only mechanism capable of moving the system forward! 🆙
#ResearchPolicy #HigherEducation #AcademicCareers #Publishing #Metrics
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What Kind of Economists Do We Want? From a One-Track to a Two-Track Mind https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hhs:iuiwop:1530&r=&r=eur
"In Sweden, and presumably also in most other small European countries, the approach to PhD training in #economics is biased. The system strongly encourages new generations of researchers to focus wholeheartedly on attempting to publish in the #top5 economics journals – despite the fact that the probability of being accepted in those journals is slim. PhD training has become exclusively geared towards producing future academic economists. The fact that highly skilled economists are needed outside the university walls as well is largely disregarded.
We recommend a #diversification of the #incentive structure. Economics is a #socialScience and must have something to say about the world we live in, but this is becoming increasingly rare. Instead of being problem-driven, our subject has fallen prey to the tyranny of #prestige, where methods tend to be more important than problems. A nuanced, diversified and balanced view of what constitutes a first-rate economist is called for. The educational system must support this rather than forcing students and more advanced researchers to suboptimize by concentrating on research they believe is favored by the editors of the leading journals."
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Could AI slow science?
https://www.normaltech.ai/p/could-ai-slow-scienceYes.
The rapid adoption of #AI in #science risks exacerbating the production-progress paradox, where publication volume grows exponentially while true scientific progress stagnates or slows down.
While AI-driven modeling may improve predictive accuracy, we risk not advancing our understanding of the underlying processes.
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Die Verelendungstheorie würde sagen, dass wir der Überwindung von publish or perish näher kommen. Sie überzeugt mich nicht, hat aber schon ein bisschen apokalyptischen Charmé. #Wissenschaft #PublishOrPerish
https://www.tagesschau.de/wissen/forschung/organisierter-wissenschaftsbetrug-100.html -
The current academic publishing system is a terrible mess of quasi-monopolys, ridiculious publishing costs, #PhD's suffering from #publishOrPerish pressure, godawful paywalls, unpaid reviewers, authors waiving rights on their own work, and more...
#PLOS being a nonprofit brings some fresh air into this: They have no interest in accepting only sensational results - just good old peer review.
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Scobel: Wissenschaft in der Vertrauenskrise
https://www.3sat.de/wissen/scobel/scobel---wissenschaft-in-der-vertrauenskrise-100.html
"Künstliche Intelligenz erleichtert wissenschaftlichen Betrug – gefälschte Studien bedrohen Vertrauen und Integrität der Forschung."
Drei eloquente Gäste zum Thema (und einer hat Regenbogensocken 👍)
Und das war dann auch die letzte Scobel-Ausgabe
#FakeScience #PaperMills #generativeKi #wissenschaft #PublishOrPerish #metriken #reproduzierbarkeit #scobel #wissenschaftskommunikation
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Saw a Reddit post about a "Peer Review LLM", and I decided to test it with one of my own current preprints to see how good it actually is.
As I expected, it's rubbish, at least in the context of what one should actually expect from a peer review, because an LLM doesn't actually *think*.
You can see it's output here:
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Not to scare y’all but a world where a paper’s insight only counts when it bumps a publisher’s share price may be nigh…
As I noted long ago, #PublishOrPerish quietly morphed into #PublishAndPerish…
Buy low, publish high! Caveat emptor & caveat lector… -
Das Warten hat sich gelohnt. Es ist wunderschön. Muss demnächst Spieleabend planen. #PublishOrPerish
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Since our game is about Publishing papers, we decided to add a convenient export citation button. Any paper that cites our game will be added to the credits. h-index++ 🧑🎓 #PublishOrPerish #phd #academia #indiegame #unity
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An entertaining, informative and overall really well done video about the h-index and why you shouldn't use it, by @stefhaustein, @carey_mlchen et al.
I really will be sharing this video a lot: "What is the h-index and what are its limitations? Or: Stop using the h-index"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSf79S3XkJw
#hIndex #bibliometrics #researchEvaluation #researchAssessment #publishOrPerish
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Among the World’s Top Researchers 10% Publish At Unrealistic Levels, Analysis Finds
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https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/among-worlds-top-researchers-10-publish-at-unrealistic-levels-analysis-finds/4020962.article <-- shared article
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https://doi.org/10.1080/08989621.2024.2445280 <-- shared paper
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[again, not my usual fare but interesting… the cartoon was added as a bit of facetious fun...]
#papers #publishing #research #publishorperish #metrics #fraud #retractions #academic #researchers #implausible #author #coauthor #newcomers #anomalous #metrics #inflation #career #quality #academia #unrealistic -
Among the World’s Top Researchers 10% Publish At Unrealistic Levels, Analysis Finds
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https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/among-worlds-top-researchers-10-publish-at-unrealistic-levels-analysis-finds/4020962.article <-- shared article
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https://doi.org/10.1080/08989621.2024.2445280 <-- shared paper
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[again, not my usual fare but interesting… the cartoon was added as a bit of facetious fun...]
#papers #publishing #research #publishorperish #metrics #fraud #retractions #academic #researchers #implausible #author #coauthor #newcomers #anomalous #metrics #inflation #career #quality #academia #unrealistic -
Among the World’s Top Researchers 10% Publish At Unrealistic Levels, Analysis Finds
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https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/among-worlds-top-researchers-10-publish-at-unrealistic-levels-analysis-finds/4020962.article <-- shared article
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https://doi.org/10.1080/08989621.2024.2445280 <-- shared paper
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[again, not my usual fare but interesting… the cartoon was added as a bit of facetious fun...]
#papers #publishing #research #publishorperish #metrics #fraud #retractions #academic #researchers #implausible #author #coauthor #newcomers #anomalous #metrics #inflation #career #quality #academia #unrealistic -
Among the World’s Top Researchers 10% Publish At Unrealistic Levels, Analysis Finds
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https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/among-worlds-top-researchers-10-publish-at-unrealistic-levels-analysis-finds/4020962.article <-- shared article
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https://doi.org/10.1080/08989621.2024.2445280 <-- shared paper
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[again, not my usual fare but interesting… the cartoon was added as a bit of facetious fun...]
#papers #publishing #research #publishorperish #metrics #fraud #retractions #academic #researchers #implausible #author #coauthor #newcomers #anomalous #metrics #inflation #career #quality #academia #unrealistic -
Among the World’s Top Researchers 10% Publish At Unrealistic Levels, Analysis Finds
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https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/among-worlds-top-researchers-10-publish-at-unrealistic-levels-analysis-finds/4020962.article <-- shared article
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https://doi.org/10.1080/08989621.2024.2445280 <-- shared paper
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[again, not my usual fare but interesting… the cartoon was added as a bit of facetious fun...]
#papers #publishing #research #publishorperish #metrics #fraud #retractions #academic #researchers #implausible #author #coauthor #newcomers #anomalous #metrics #inflation #career #quality #academia #unrealistic -
Being excluded from academia's system doesn't make me wrong—nor does it make them right.
#Physics #AcademicBias #PeerReviewReform #DecentralizedKnowledge #IndependentResearch #Gatekeeping #AcademicFreedom #ScholarlyResistance #BreakTheIvoryTower #PublishOrPerish #ResearchForAll #CitizenScience #AcademicElitism #OpenAccess #KnowledgeShouldBeFree #TheoreticalPhysics #BeyondAcademia #AcademiaExposed #ChallengingConsensus #ThinkOutsideTheIvoryTower #Academia
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Being excluded from academia's system doesn't make me wrong—nor does it make them right.
#Physics #AcademicBias #PeerReviewReform #DecentralizedKnowledge #IndependentResearch #Gatekeeping #AcademicFreedom #ScholarlyResistance #BreakTheIvoryTower #PublishOrPerish #ResearchForAll #CitizenScience #AcademicElitism #OpenAccess #KnowledgeShouldBeFree #TheoreticalPhysics #BeyondAcademia #AcademiaExposed #ChallengingConsensus #ThinkOutsideTheIvoryTower #Academia
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Being excluded from academia's system doesn't make me wrong—nor does it make them right.
#Physics #AcademicBias #PeerReviewReform #DecentralizedKnowledge #IndependentResearch #Gatekeeping #AcademicFreedom #ScholarlyResistance #BreakTheIvoryTower #PublishOrPerish #ResearchForAll #CitizenScience #AcademicElitism #OpenAccess #KnowledgeShouldBeFree #TheoreticalPhysics #BeyondAcademia #AcademiaExposed #ChallengingConsensus #ThinkOutsideTheIvoryTower #Academia
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Being excluded from academia's system doesn't make me wrong—nor does it make them right.
#Physics #AcademicBias #PeerReviewReform #DecentralizedKnowledge #IndependentResearch #Gatekeeping #AcademicFreedom #ScholarlyResistance #BreakTheIvoryTower #PublishOrPerish #ResearchForAll #CitizenScience #AcademicElitism #OpenAccess #KnowledgeShouldBeFree #TheoreticalPhysics #BeyondAcademia #AcademiaExposed #ChallengingConsensus #ThinkOutsideTheIvoryTower #Academia
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Being excluded from academia's system doesn't make me wrong—nor does it make them right.
#Physics #AcademicBias #PeerReviewReform #DecentralizedKnowledge #IndependentResearch #Gatekeeping #AcademicFreedom #ScholarlyResistance #BreakTheIvoryTower #PublishOrPerish #ResearchForAll #CitizenScience #AcademicElitism #OpenAccess #KnowledgeShouldBeFree #TheoreticalPhysics #BeyondAcademia #AcademiaExposed #ChallengingConsensus #ThinkOutsideTheIvoryTower #Academia
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The #AcademicPublishing system too often rewards #DataFraud & manipulation with little consequence for researchers who engage in #misconduct. https://thewalrus.ca/a-rock-star-researcher-spun-a-web-of-lies-and-nearly-got-away-with-it/
This story illustrates how the pressure to publish and gain prestige can lead some scientists to prioritize impressive results over #ScientificIntegrity. The article shines a light on the messy process of addressing misconduct, the personal toll on whistleblowers, and the systemic flaws that allow fraud to thrive.
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I've backed "Publish or Perish: A Humorous Party Game about Academia" and, trust me, you should too
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/maxhuibai/publish-or-perish-1/
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CW: Old style cartoon violence in third image, no blood or gore.
Not sure if it's true here, but I've always thought of posting art online as a #publishorperish affair, especially where algorithms exist.
With that in mind, I've selected a few snippets from my two current works-in-progress.
The handwritten text is an excerpt from #JonathanCoulton 's cute and funny song #CodeMonkey.
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6 major academic publishers face antitrust lawsuit
"The #lawsuit alleges that the six #academicpublishers have formed a “cartel” through STM, of which they are all members. Members agree to follow STM’s policies, which state that peer review is “volunteer work” and that researchers cannot submit their manuscripts to more than one journal at a time or freely share their work under review, according to the lawsuit."
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I've got an idea for which I need to find/scrape other keywords from scientific papers matched by one of keywords. I have only once did search via PoP (https://harzing.com/resources/publish-or-perish), but I don't see the other keywords in the results.
I checked the scholar package for R (https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/scholar/index.html), but I don't see what I'm looking for there.
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[veille] "La pression pour publier et être cité est préjudiciable au comportement des scientifiques” =>
https://maisouvaleweb.fr/de-la-manipulation-de-donnees-scientifiques-avec-lia-generative/
#IA #fraudescientifique #ChatGPT #GenAI #researchdata #data #science #googlescholar #search #slowscience #misconduct #publishORperish -
#OnVousExplique les #ReviewMills, les #CitationMills et les #PaperMills, trois pratiques prédatrices dans le monde de l"#EditionScientifique, effet du fameux paradigme #PublishOrPerish
➡️ https://openscience.pasteur.fr/2024/06/07/les-paper-mills-review-mills-et-citation-mills/