In the US “the aggression against science and scientists is coming from one political party, and the extreme element of one political party” but the article talks about harassment in other countries as well.
If you, or journals you work with, are publishing in multiple languages in #OpenJournalSystems (OJS), or are interested in learning more, we hope you can join us!
“Gates Foundation Collaborates with F1000 to Launch Verified Preprint Platform”
given the issues with other preprint servers, I think this is an interesting move. I hope Gates Foundation will be able to learn from the past mistakes of other preprint servers?
@rmounce#Microsoft is so big it contains a mini-Accenture which routinely bets on multiple competing horses in a number of fields. Even if it got into #scholcomm it wouldn't tip the scale in any particular direction other than Microsoft itself. You'd see Azure CDN for paywalled PDFs, Azure App Service OJS, Azure DevOps layer journal etc. After a few years everything would be the same as before except with everyone mysteriously forced to pay rent to Microsoft.
I have a preprint out estimating how many scholarly papers are written using chatGPT etc? I estimate upwards of 60k articles (>1% of global output) published in 2023. https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.16887
How can we identify this? Simple: there are certain words that LLMs love, and they suddenly start showing up a lot last year. Twice as many papers call something "intricate", big rises for "commendable" and "meticulous".
We’ve teamed up with @crossref COPE and OASPA to create a short survey to help us understand in which social media platforms you want to hear from us. It's very short!
"Only 27% [of surveyed doctoral students and supervisors]…felt the level of training offered [in OA] was sufficient…Researchers who undertake training…report a better level of understanding of open access and place more importance on it as a factor in selecting a journal."
New study: "The practice of automatically assigning senior members of departments as co-authors on all submitted manuscripts may be common in the health sciences…Those admitting to this practice find[] it unjustified in most cases." https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-55966-x
Watching with interest: "Backed by 250,000 Swiss francs, or roughly $285,000,… from the University of Bern, [a new program] will pay reviewers to root out mistakes in influential papers, beginning with a handful in #psychology. The more errors found, and the more severe they are, the more the sleuths stand to make." https://www.chronicle.com/article/wanted-scientific-errors-cash-reward
(#paywalled)
It's now cultivating the false & invidious impression that journals w/o JIFs are somehow untrustworthy or fraudulent.
"We have evolved the JIF from an indicator of scholarly impact (the numerical value of the JIF)…to an indicator of both…impact & trustworthiness (having a JIF – regardless of the number)."
I'm grateful to authors who take the time to write up their stories of mistreatment by #journals and #publishers.
The publicity can help in their own cases. It can help unknown authors who didn't have the same freedom to publicize their experience. It can help raise standards in publishing.
Thinking about statistical peer review today in the context of biomedical journals. Have you done it as a reviewer? Have you hired for it as a journal editor? Have you benefited from it (or not) as an author? #scholcomm#biostatistics
I don't like the #OpenAccess publishing contract from the 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘕𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘴 (published by the Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences and the #IEEE Communications Society). But I do like the fact that the journal made it OA. That helps authors decide whether to submit work there, and supports easier comparison to other contracts. All journals should make their publishing contracts OA. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10387284
When an author uses a transformative agreement to publish #OA without themselves paying an APC, is it appropriate to say "The authors received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article"?
If not, what should they say in the funding/sponsorship section? #Scholcomm@academicchatter#medlibs
These journals still compete for authors. But for authors submitting to #Elsevier journals, impact metrics matter more than price. For authors submitting to #Hindawi journals, turnaround time matters more than price.
#SearchRxiv is an #OpenAccess#repository "where librarians and researchers can share searches created for literature reviews. To support findability and #reuse, searchRxiv issues a #DOI for every unique search posted and adds indexing to the entry."
New study: "We assess the question of whether institutional investment in scientific #journals aligns with the journals where researchers send their papers for publication, and where they serve as unpaid reviewers and editors…[We found] that institutional costs often do not match well with… benefits to researchers." https://peerj.com/articles/16514/
I just saw the new board members of @ORCID_Org and immediately recognized familiar names. I am really happy to see @Lisalibrarian and Alla Zharinova of our partner library in Kyiv, the SSTL, in there.
Congratulations to them and the other candidates, of course, too: Judi Zielke, Ellen Tise, César Augusto Rendón-Valencia, María Soledad Bravo Marchant and Clare Appavoo.