Academic publishing

Nieces of nation’s incoming justice minister accused of faking research papers to help gain Ivy League admission

Universities seeking significant savings after Elsevier victory

Law experts call for broader effort to improve authors’ copyright interests

Scholars question whether open access platforms could step in to replace dominance of China National Knowledge Infrastructure

As a major publisher and information provider, Elsevier embraces its role in promoting diversity, say Ylann Schemm and Holly Falk-Krzesinski

The president of Seoul National University discusses the existential crisis facing higher education in South Korea

Study finds little ‘substantive’ change between 2002 and 2019 

Worldwide survey of scientists suggests almost two-thirds are now positive about their use

Academics call for rethink of latest Australian security intervention

In developing nations deemed too rich for fee waivers, subscription journals are the only publishing option, say three Brazilian scientists

New citation study overturns long-held belief that science is no laughing matter

Links to journals’ genuine websites should be added to the government’s database of reputable publishing outlets, says Rameez Mahesar

Temporary deal arrives on day of UK’s new open access policy, but raises issue of paying high price for ‘ego trip’ of Nature publication

Legitimate concerns about publishers’ grip on the academy will not be addressed if open access debate remains so polarised, says Amy Brand

Deal includes prestigious Cell Press and Lancet journals

East-West schism widened by Russian academia being cut off from world, says scholar

Grassroots effort by linguists seeks to lift up non-native English speakers, many of whom cannot afford professional proofreaders

Trials suggest that far from being mutually exclusive, both can play an important role, says Kim Eggleton

Audit of top psychology and neuroscience titles highlights relative lack of female editors and US dominance that may be harming science, say authors

Study analysing readability and citations suggests academics may have an incentive to keep their abstracts complex

Open access champion also proposes an IB for universities, as competition gives way to collaboration  

Establishing a peer review accreditation scheme would also help incentivise higher standards, says Arfan Ghani

Losses perceived for holistic views as communications modes show humanists embracing data-heavy styles of the hard sciences

Publishers need to examine their biases and universities their support mechanisms, say Avi Staiman, Marnie Jo Petray and Gaillynn Clements

PeerJ will give contributors ‘tokens’ to be redeemed against article processing charges

About one in 20 recent academic papers is a duplicate, with some articles being recycled as many as 27 times in different publications

Two separate studies, including one that looked at early Covid papers, suggest majority of alterations are minimal

Accurate reporting of results is important, but meaning is rarely distorted by orthographic or grammatical slips, says Adrian Furnham

Open access platforms are no substitute for peer-reviewed periodicals, says Maria Leptin

Rigorous ‘no deal’ planning paved way for significant concessions, says library head

Firms that sell co-authorship on papers accepted by reputable journals are likely turning over millions of pounds a year

World’s biggest digital library of Chinese journals under pressure over copyright infringement

MPs investigate role of journal publication in the early stages of the pandemic

Studying institutional success stories is socially useful and has nothing to do with selling out, say Matthew Flinders and Paul ’t Hart

Cathy Foley wants to extend access to scholarly journals beyond academia

More training, greater recognition and a wider geographical purview would help expand the reviewer pool, says Miriam Maus

The abolition of publishers and the bypassing of Big Tech is a prerequisite for maximising the power of science, says Andy Farnell

Close relationships between journal boards and most-published authors may explain speedy publishing times, says study

Scholar criticises lack of anonymised peer review at Law Quarterly Review

While progress has been hamstrung by lack of scale or regulatory force, advocates say the time has come

Major science organisation targets periodicals publishing too many papers or high proportion of brief articles

The crisis in peer reviewing can be overcome if journals and universities do more to incentivise it, say Dirk Lindebaum and Peter Jordan

UK universities could easily cope without Elsevier access for lengthy period, says Berkeley librarian who led system through two-year cut-off

Journals that are part of Cambridge University Press’ Research Directions ‘will better reflect the research lifecycle’ and interdisciplinary research

But study challenges idea that papers by colleagues of editors are of a lower quality

Publishing giant’s offer fails to meet goals of reducing costs and supporting rapid switch to open access, says sector

Editors need to grasp how much intelligence and bravery is needed to produce innovative ideas in certain contexts, says Alfredo González-Ruibal

Male reviewers more than twice as likely as females to voluntarily identify themselves, and signed reviews substantially less critical of authors, analysis finds

As refereeing requests multiply, the demands on willing academics’ time are becoming unsustainable, says Adrian Furnham

Peer review without transparency does not stave off potentially lethal misinformation, Open Access Week forum hears

Springer pact follows agreement with Cambridge University Press, as other big publishers prepare to follow suit

Prestigious scientific journals are charging vastly more than the costs they incur for each article published, claims contested study

Prestigious Sage robotics title pulls papers over concerns its peer review was ‘subverted’ by China-based academics

Country concerned about likes of Elsevier ‘seizing’ distribution of scientific output

Evolution of indexes closely tied to development of universities, says author, who outlines how they have been used for centuries to settle scholarly scores

Holden Thorp says Abet course rules hinder well-rounded strategies to fight major social burdens

But thousands of Australian researchers remain in limbo, with reviled rule still in force for grants under consideration

Jo Phoenix says researchers need a ‘decent database’ to get beyond ‘political mantras’

Only unrestricted access to journal articles’ version of record will fulfil the aims of the open access movement, says Carrie Webster

International survey of scholars finds women are more likely to feel aggrieved over decisions regarding author credit or ordering