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What does the #AcademicChatter hivemind think about strategically reordering manuscript author order to promote junior author who may benefit more from a first-authorship? Given (1) a discipline where author order is important, (2) all on authors fulfilled authorship criteria, (3) junior author would be listed lower if going by contributions, and (4) all authors agree to reordering. #ScientificPublishing
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"Intermediate levels of scientific knowledge are associated with overconfidence and negative attitudes towards science", Lackner et al. 2023 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-023-01677-8
The Institute for Replication (#I4R) is collaborating with the publisher (Nature Human Behaviour) and has now produced a report on the above paper (https://osf.io/mg95t/files/mjs86 ) which is largely positive:
"LFMMG (2023) presents a computationally reproducible and largely robust finding. We re-implemented the full analytical pipeline and conducted thirty-one robustness checks with those results summarized in Table 8. There is much kudos to be given to the original authours* for making the process of replicating their work clear and worthwhile."
* typo in the original text of the report.
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Relatedly, in the middle of the XX century the scientists that were responsible signed the paper as authors, and everyone else was listed in the Acknowledgements section.
That today we list everybody as "middle authors" is, on the one hand, a consequence of the "publish or perish" culture, and on the other, a way to bring visibility to people who did the actual work (I am thinking here of famous neuroscience papers were the actual work was done by non-PhD women technicians who were merely "acknowledged" instead of signing as first authors, which would have been the case today).
Further, in my own papers, I don't add anyone as author who hasn't read the whole paper and commented on it. As a bare minimum. Each contributor should know first hand what they are agreeing to endorse with their name, even if they couldn't do that work themselves without a lot of training.
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I'm reading news of someone in academia complaining about the new no-AI policy by ArXiv that requires something as outlandish as co-authors to take responsibility for what gets published in a scientific paper and … I'm sorry, how is this unexpected?
Academic publishing has a lot of issues, but requiring people to actually read what they sign off to is not one of them.
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Scientific publishing has always been hard, and as always, it's about attention. Here is Dr. Alois Alzheimer trying to communicate his findings about dementia to his contemporaries 120 years ago:
"On 3 November 1906, Alzheimer discussed his findings on the brain pathology and symptoms of presenile dementia publicly, at the Tübingen meeting of the Southwest German Psychiatrists. The attendees at this lecture seemed uninterested in what he had to say. The lecturer that followed Alzheimer was to speak on the topic of "compulsive masturbation", which the audience of 88 individuals was so eagerly awaiting that they sent Alzheimer away without any questions or comments on his discovery of the pathology of a peculiar case of early-onset dementia."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alois_Alzheimer
Thankfully, "Following his presentation, Alzheimer published a short paper summarizing his presentation; in 1907 he wrote a longer paper detailing the disease and his findings."
"... he used the newly developed Bielschowsky stain to identify amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles. These brain anomalies became identifiers of what is now known as Alzheimer's disease."
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Our Managing Editor Dr. Barbara Hissa will give an online talk during the International Conference on Advanced Nanoparticle Generation and Excitation by Lasers in Liquids (ANGEL) on May 24, 2026 at 2 pm CEST. Barbara will talk about “(Diamond) Open Access landscape in Europe and beyond”.
➡️ https://angel-conference.org/program/
#EditorsTalk #EdiTours #ScientificPublishing #DiamondOpenAccess #OpenScience #BJNANO 💎🔓
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Our Managing Editor Dr. Barbara Hissa will give an online talk during the International Conference on Advanced Nanoparticle Generation and Excitation by Lasers in Liquids (ANGEL) on May 24, 2026 at 2 pm CEST. Barbara will talk about “(Diamond) Open Access landscape in Europe and beyond”.
➡️ https://angel-conference.org/program/
#EditorsTalk #EdiTours #ScientificPublishing #DiamondOpenAccess #OpenScience #BJNANO 💎🔓
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Our Managing Editor Dr. Barbara Hissa will give an online talk during the International Conference on Advanced Nanoparticle Generation and Excitation by Lasers in Liquids (ANGEL) on May 24, 2026 at 2 pm CEST. Barbara will talk about “(Diamond) Open Access landscape in Europe and beyond”.
➡️ https://angel-conference.org/program/
#EditorsTalk #EdiTours #ScientificPublishing #DiamondOpenAccess #OpenScience #BJNANO 💎🔓
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Our Managing Editor Dr. Barbara Hissa will give an online talk during the International Conference on Advanced Nanoparticle Generation and Excitation by Lasers in Liquids (ANGEL) on May 24, 2026 at 2 pm CEST. Barbara will talk about “(Diamond) Open Access landscape in Europe and beyond”.
➡️ https://angel-conference.org/program/
#EditorsTalk #EdiTours #ScientificPublishing #DiamondOpenAccess #OpenScience #BJNANO 💎🔓
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Our Managing Editor Dr. Barbara Hissa will give an online talk during the International Conference on Advanced Nanoparticle Generation and Excitation by Lasers in Liquids (ANGEL) on May 24, 2026 at 2 pm CEST. Barbara will talk about “(Diamond) Open Access landscape in Europe and beyond”.
➡️ https://angel-conference.org/program/
#EditorsTalk #EdiTours #ScientificPublishing #DiamondOpenAccess #OpenScience #BJNANO 💎🔓
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You may not agree with this paper, but you should read it:
"Aging and the narrowing of scientific innovation", Cui et al. 2026 (James Evans lab)
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ady8732"Analyzing more than 12.5 million scientists who published between 1960 and 2020, we find that novelty—the linking of previously unconnected ideas—increases with academic age, whereas disruption—the replacement of established ideas with new ones—declines."
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"The hard truth about how hard it is to publish in Development", Briscoe et al. 2026
https://journals.biologists.com/dev/article/153/1/dev205432/370214/The-hard-truth-about-how-hard-it-is-to-publish-in"for the past 10 years, 35-45% of papers submitted to Development ultimately get published."
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Find the centre Mersenne's funding data on the TSOSI platform: https://tsosi.org/entities/Q55606850
The centre Mersenne is participating in the TSOSI project and has chosen to publish its funding details. This project is still ongoing: new data will be published shortly.
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"This is an ongoing list of quality, Open Access (OA) journals in the social sciences, who won’t sell your stuff to AI companies, and don’t charge you fees."
https://ubisurv.net/2024/09/04/radical-open-access-in-the-social-sciences/(updated as of May 2026)
Curated by David Murakami Wood https://www.uottawa.ca/research-innovation/centre-law-technology-society/people/murakami-wood-david
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"This is an ongoing list of quality, Open Access (OA) journals in the social sciences, who won’t sell your stuff to AI companies, and don’t charge you fees."
https://ubisurv.net/2024/09/04/radical-open-access-in-the-social-sciences/(updated as of May 2026)
Curated by David Murakami Wood https://www.uottawa.ca/research-innovation/centre-law-technology-society/people/murakami-wood-david
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"This is an ongoing list of quality, Open Access (OA) journals in the social sciences, who won’t sell your stuff to AI companies, and don’t charge you fees."
https://ubisurv.net/2024/09/04/radical-open-access-in-the-social-sciences/(updated as of May 2026)
Curated by David Murakami Wood https://www.uottawa.ca/research-innovation/centre-law-technology-society/people/murakami-wood-david
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"This is an ongoing list of quality, Open Access (OA) journals in the social sciences, who won’t sell your stuff to AI companies, and don’t charge you fees."
https://ubisurv.net/2024/09/04/radical-open-access-in-the-social-sciences/(updated as of May 2026)
Curated by David Murakami Wood https://www.uottawa.ca/research-innovation/centre-law-technology-society/people/murakami-wood-david
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"Possible Principles Underlying the Transformations of Sensory Messages", Barlow, 1961.
https://www.cnbc.cmu.edu/~tai/nc19journalclubs/Barlow-SensoryCommunication-1961.pdfI wish scientists would still write papers like this, rather than catering to the glamour press. Note the ideas in this paper have been widely influential, and itself has gathered thousands of citations, pretty much all of them well beyond two years after publication.
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Scandal at Elsevier, *again*:
https://www.chrisbrunet.com/p/third-editor-fired-in-elseviers-citation
As revealed by Chris Brunet.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@brembs/116488494512795198
If you are getting started in academia and publishing in general, and don't know much about the impact factor, this is a great place to start:
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Remembering this and related reports of the distribution of article-level citations in Nature ...
Riikonen P, Vihinen M. National research contributions: A case study on Finnish biomedical research. Scientometrics. 2008 Nov 1;77(2):207-22.
https://akjournals.com/view/journals/11192/77/2/article-p207.xmlNature sells impact (factor), hence there is a bias towards publishing papers that will accrue more citations in the next two years than its current impact factor times 2, since that is (or it is said to be*) the formula for computing the impact factor of a journal.
* As per @brembs et al.: "there is evidence that IF is, at least in some cases, not calculated but negotiated, that it is not reproducible, and that, even if it were reproducibly computed, the way it is derived is not mathematically sound" https://arxiv.org/pdf/1301.3748
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"More Versus Better: Artificial Intelligence, Incentives, and the Emerging Crisis in Peer Review", Gertenberg et al. 2026
https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/full/10.1287/orsc.2026.ed.v37.n3An interesting and refreshingly clear editorial on the impact of LLMs on academic publishing, in particular for their journal,, with a stark conclusion:
"Submission volume has risen 42% since the late 2022 release of ChatGPT, while writing quality has declined."
"AI-generated writing in reviews has also increased, and is characterized by lower writing quality and less topical diversity than human-generated writing."
"Conversations with editors across scientific disciplines, however, suggest that what we observe is not limited to our journal or to the social sciences."
"the current state of AI tools, amplified by existing publish-or-perish incentives, appears to be pushing the system toward an equilibrium of more rather than better research."
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*PERSONAL NEWS ALERT*
I'’m thrilled to share that I’ve returned to the editorial front lines as the new 𝗘𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗼𝗿-𝗶𝗻-𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗲𝗳 of 𝗔𝗱𝘃𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗱 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 at @wiley.com#newjob #OpenScience #ScientificPublishing #IntelligentDiscovery #EditorsLife
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*PERSONAL NEWS ALERT*
I'’m thrilled to share that I’ve returned to the editorial front lines as the new 𝗘𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗼𝗿-𝗶𝗻-𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗲𝗳 of 𝗔𝗱𝘃𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗱 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 at @wiley.com#newjob #OpenScience #ScientificPublishing #IntelligentDiscovery #EditorsLife
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*PERSONAL NEWS ALERT*
I'’m thrilled to share that I’ve returned to the editorial front lines as the new 𝗘𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗼𝗿-𝗶𝗻-𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗲𝗳 of 𝗔𝗱𝘃𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗱 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 at @wiley.com#newjob #OpenScience #ScientificPublishing #IntelligentDiscovery #EditorsLife
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*PERSONAL NEWS ALERT*
I'’m thrilled to share that I’ve returned to the editorial front lines as the new 𝗘𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗼𝗿-𝗶𝗻-𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗲𝗳 of 𝗔𝗱𝘃𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗱 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 at @wiley.com#newjob #OpenScience #ScientificPublishing #IntelligentDiscovery #EditorsLife
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*PERSONAL NEWS ALERT*
I'’m thrilled to share that I’ve returned to the editorial front lines as the new 𝗘𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗼𝗿-𝗶𝗻-𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗲𝗳 of 𝗔𝗱𝘃𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗱 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 at @wiley.com#newjob #OpenScience #ScientificPublishing #IntelligentDiscovery #EditorsLife
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A common sentiment among reviewers and editors:
"authors who use random abbreviations shouldn't be allowed to publish"
Said only half tongue-in-cheek. It's really annoying. If there is to be any legit use of LLMs in scientific publishing, let it be to expand all the acronyms.
Don't assume others know what an acronym means, or that it means the same thing in a related but adjacent field of research.
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Major shift in scientific infrastructure: arXiv is leaving university governance to become an independent organization.
While some see this as a gain in long-term stability, others point to a possible move toward commercialization.
#arxiv #Preprints #openscience #ScientificPublishing #ResearchInfrastructure
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Major shift in scientific infrastructure: arXiv is leaving university governance to become an independent organization.
While some see this as a gain in long-term stability, others point to a possible move toward commercialization.
#arxiv #Preprints #openscience #ScientificPublishing #ResearchInfrastructure
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Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature. What can be done?
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I am rather late to tooting this...
(Also the decision-making process took longer than we expected.
It was a very valuable learning experience!)This was the first ever start up fund for a mathematics Diamond OA journal.
We decided to support two journal initiatives.https://www.mathoa.org/announcement/
One of the journals (Combinatorial Commutative Algebra, https://mulpress.mcmaster.ca/CCA/index) has already launched!
With warm congratulations to both projects, we wish you much success in the coming years!
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Is this some sort of bad taste joke? WTF Elsevier? Now we are supposed to BUY additional services on top of everything else to have a chance to get published?!! Anyone else received this?
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What should fluid mechanics papers focus on today?
This editorial argues for a “physics-first” approach: beyond data and simulations, real progress comes from understanding mechanisms and scaling laws.
🔗 https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0329552
#FluidDynamics #Physics #ScientificPublishing #ResearchCulture #OpenScience
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What should fluid mechanics papers focus on today?
This editorial argues for a “physics-first” approach: beyond data and simulations, real progress comes from understanding mechanisms and scaling laws.
🔗 https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0329552
#FluidDynamics #Physics #ScientificPublishing #ResearchCulture #OpenScience
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What should fluid mechanics papers focus on today?
This editorial argues for a “physics-first” approach: beyond data and simulations, real progress comes from understanding mechanisms and scaling laws.
🔗 https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0329552
#FluidDynamics #Physics #ScientificPublishing #ResearchCulture #OpenScience
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What should fluid mechanics papers focus on today?
This editorial argues for a “physics-first” approach: beyond data and simulations, real progress comes from understanding mechanisms and scaling laws.
🔗 https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0329552
#FluidDynamics #Physics #ScientificPublishing #ResearchCulture #OpenScience
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What should fluid mechanics papers focus on today?
This editorial argues for a “physics-first” approach: beyond data and simulations, real progress comes from understanding mechanisms and scaling laws.
🔗 https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0329552
#FluidDynamics #Physics #ScientificPublishing #ResearchCulture #OpenScience
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I am slowly getting disillusioned about scientific publishing and rigor. I just got a note from google scholar that one of my articles has been cited. Looking it up, they made our "these reasons were named regularly in these categories" into "these categories enable these reasons".
This is utter bullshit!
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Now I got a response:
"Thanks for sharing your perspective on the review process. I'm not in a position to determine such policies so I will seek other reviewers."
In other words, they are seeking to find another academic who won't object to being exploited for their profitable business that, clearly, depends on the free labour of experts.
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Bibliometrics, as a discipline, is as hard as it gets, since it's trying to measure, or even, predict, an outcome that perhaps only years or decades can validate.
Among the statistical models used, complex as they may be, I find missing the details of how the enchilada is made. As in, when we publish a paper, we are often told by the editor, "you are 5 pages over your 5 page limit", and, "you are 100 citations over your 50 citation limit". So we rewrite the manuscripts (hence preprints are often better, at least in the honesty and clarity of the citations) to compress both the text and the references, favouring reviews or simply skipping those that may be considered common knowledge or which "merely" confirm prior claims. Now try to model that. I hope there's focus on preprints for more proper studies of attribution and discovery chains.
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Have we crossed the point yet where "productivity" is seen as a bad word, with negative connotations?
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An editor from a Springer Nature journal, a company that posted $2.1 billion in revenue in 2022 [1], from an industry with double-digit percent profits (~30% [2]), kindly asked me, an academic in the UK where salaries continue to plummet [3], whether I would be pleased to review a paper for them, for free ... so I kindly asked whether they would consider paying me. It is only logical.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springer_Nature
[2] https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jun/27/profitable-business-scientific-publishing-bad-for-science
[3] In UK academia, "Pay has fallen significantly in real terms since 2009, as have pension contributions, and redundancies are rife. Short-term contracts and precarious work arrangements are common, especially for younger staff, as universities struggle to balance their books." https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01/28/vice-chancellor-salaries-university-bosses-rich/ -
Reflecting on eLife's new publication model, 3 years in: "the most important thing we have learnt is that our new approach to publishing works. Authors, reviewers and editors routinely tell us that they have had a more constructive experience with the new approach."
https://elifesciences.org/articles/110392?_hsmi=98220609
Proud to be an eLife editor. eLife's publication model gets the best from everyone:
* from authors, who remain in control and can reply to reviewers without fear and without being overly apologetic or sycophantic;
* from reviewers, who engage constructively in a semi-anonymous way (they aren't anonymous neither to each other nor to the editors, all practicing scientists in their field), knowing that their comments are suggestions, not mandates for authors;
* and from editors, who don't have to deal with any nastiness from any party, everybody being far more relaxed that I've seen in any other journal, concentrating their efforts in the scientific content.1/3
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And follow the authors Sukannya Purkayastha, Nils Dycke, and Iryna Gurevych from the Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab (UKP Lab), Technische Universität Darmstadt and National Research Center for Applied Cybersecurity ATHENE, as well as Anne Lauscher from the Data Science Group, University of Hamburg.
See you this week in Rabat 🕌! #EACL2026
#EACL2026 #PeerReview #ScientificPublishing #AIforScience #LLMs #DialogueSystems #Evaluation #ResearchIntegrity #NLP #MachineLearning #UKPLab
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And follow the authors Sukannya Purkayastha, Nils Dycke, and Iryna Gurevych from the Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab (UKP Lab), Technische Universität Darmstadt and National Research Center for Applied Cybersecurity ATHENE, as well as Anne Lauscher from the Data Science Group, University of Hamburg.
See you this week in Rabat 🕌! #EACL2026
#EACL2026 #PeerReview #ScientificPublishing #AIforScience #LLMs #DialogueSystems #Evaluation #ResearchIntegrity #NLP #MachineLearning #UKPLab
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And follow the authors Sukannya Purkayastha, Nils Dycke, and Iryna Gurevych from the Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab (UKP Lab), Technische Universität Darmstadt and National Research Center for Applied Cybersecurity ATHENE, as well as Anne Lauscher from the Data Science Group, University of Hamburg.
See you this week in Rabat 🕌! #EACL2026
#EACL2026 #PeerReview #ScientificPublishing #AIforScience #LLMs #DialogueSystems #Evaluation #ResearchIntegrity #NLP #MachineLearning #UKPLab
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And follow the authors Sukannya Purkayastha, Nils Dycke, and Iryna Gurevych from the Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab (UKP Lab), Technische Universität Darmstadt and National Research Center for Applied Cybersecurity ATHENE, as well as Anne Lauscher from the Data Science Group, University of Hamburg.
See you this week in Rabat 🕌! #EACL2026
#EACL2026 #PeerReview #ScientificPublishing #AIforScience #LLMs #DialogueSystems #Evaluation #ResearchIntegrity #NLP #MachineLearning #UKPLab
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For a paper that was rejected by glamour journals and who labeled it as, quote, "suitable for the campus newsletter", it sure has been widely read and influential. Yet another example that gatekeeping by editors does a disservice to science – in biology, the most prominent example I know is Lynn Margulis' paper on the theory of an endosymbiotic origin of mitochondria and other intracellular organelles.
The commentary:
https://journals.aps.org/over-30-yearsThe paper:
"Self-similar community structure in a network of human interactions"
R. Guimerà, L. Danon, A. Díaz-Guilera, F. Giralt, and A. Arenas
Phys. Rev. E 68, 065103 (2003)
https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.68.06510330 years is a reasonable time frame for evaluating the impact of a paper. 2 years, as used in calculating a journal's impact factor, is a joke.
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Peer Community In and Peer Community Journal: A Two-Step Diamond OA Process Giving Research Communities Back Control of Publishing
#BarbaraClass #DenisBourguet #DiamondOpenAccess #OpenAccess #PeerCommunityIn #ScholarlyPublishing #ScientificCommunication #ScientificPublishing #ThomasGuillemaud