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A decade ago I was critically opposed to the gamification of academic peer-review. It is sad to see my suspicions vindicated through Goodhart's law.

https://www.science.org/content/article/suspicious-phrases-peer-reviews-point-referees-gaming-system

Point in case: "They could then take credit for the work on their CVs to gain a boost in professional evaluations. Some may have additional self-interest: Several reviewers asked the author to include citations to their own papers, and some authors complied."

#academia #ethics #peerreview #publishing #gamification


‘We need to slow down scientific publishing’

'We focus on metrics to evaluate a scientist’s career: how many articles they have published, how many times they were cited, what was the impact factor of all these articles. '

https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2024-04-26/elisabeth-bik-expert-in-scientific-integrity-we-need-to-slow-down-scientific-publishing.html

#publishing #science #stem #academicchatter


Counting citations hasn't been a reliable measure of scientific impact for a while, especially on platforms like Google Scholar that compile info from random documents. Hyper-authorship, predatory journals, etc have all contributed to the problem.

This preprint just drives home how important it is to measure scientific impact more carefully and without reliance on automated metrics

Google Scholar is manipulatable

https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.04607

#science #academia #publishing #citations


The negotiations of #SwissUniversities "with Elsevier have not yet resulted in a mutually acceptable agreement. As the current agreement ends on 31 Dec 2023, preparations were put in place for a scenario without agreement as of 2024." https://www.swissuniversities.ch/en/themen/digitalisierung/open-access/publisher-negotiations/elsevier
#Elsevier #publishing #AcademicPublishing #OpenAccess #NoDeal


Our publishing co-op is looking for a marketing volunteer, which could lead to paying work once we are funded or selling more books. (We are currently developing a crowdfunding campaign / investment round to launch later this fall.)

We publish #SciFi, #poetry, #fiction, #memoir, #philosophy, and #art. Please help spread the the word!

https://cosmos.coop/volunteer-to-promote-upcoming-book-releases/

#books #publishing #coop #volunteer


People are getting paid for #publishing #AI-written #books, in an #author's name, when in fact the author did not, and knew nothing about this happening.

Then, when the author tries to do something about it to stop this obvious #abuse, they are told no.


Talented people of Mastadon—

Grants available for unpublished diverse writers and illustrators https://diversebooks.org/programs/walter-grant/

#kidlit #publishing #illustration #writing


Over on the bird site they're talking about how MDPI journals have been added to the list of "predatory" journals.

What do you think?

https://predatoryreports.org/news/f/list-of-all-mdpi-predatory-publications

#academia #AcademicChatter #academic #science #publishing #PeerReview

  • About time! All MDPI journals are "predatory" (57%, 26 votes)
  • Mmm, only some MDPI journals are "predatory" (20%, 9 votes)
  • MDPI journals are iffy, but not fully "predatory" (20%, 9 votes)
  • MDPI journals are fine! (2%, 1 vote)
45 voters. Poll end: 1 year ago


[Call for applications] Deadline non-EU coming up: March 7 🔥💻

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Master Experimental Publishing (XPUB)

Calling all professionals questioning contradictory LaserDiscs, stenographers parodying binary image boards, nations performing omni-DIY architectures, pirates listening to distributed cybernetics, viruses seeing centralised libraries

Applications deadlines:

March 7, 2023 (non-EU)
May 10, 2023 (EU)

https://xpub.nl

#art #design #publishing #coding #computers #freesoftware #floss #master #education #rotterdam


XPUB (the Experimental Publishing Master in Rotterdam) organizes two open days in February: one online and one in person!

Join us on Monday 6th of February, 2023 for the online open day 🖥️ : we will host two online sessions at 10:00 (UTC+1) and 17:00 (UTC+1). Register by writing to l.j.drost-robbins@hr.nl.

And/or join us on Saturday 11th of February, 2023 at the XPUB studio 🍵 : we will be around from 10:00 to 15:00. You can find us on the 4th floor in the WdKA/PZI building at Wijnhaven 61, Rotterdam.

https://xpub.nl

#publishing #design #art #computers #research #education #rotterdam #floss #freesoftware #publicdomain

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Hi everybody - time for our #newhere #introduction in English: the #openscience team at @unibern ist now on @mastodon as well. We'll be talking about #OpenAccess #OpenData #ScholComm scholarly #publishing #repositories and the like. We'll also feature new #OA #publications that come out on our infrastructures. We're looking forward to (more) good discussions!


📄 An overview of open standards in scientific publishing in the context of #openscience and #openaccess #publishing

Overview of 102 standards and specifications, organized into ten categories. Essential ones were selected by defining an open standard for scholarly publishing as an uniformly documented, widely accepted and used, openly accessible / extensible specification that is applied to the creation, description, production, and dissemination […] #science

https://doi.org/10.14293/S2199-1006.1.SOR-.PPNKUIH.v1

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