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| | There is widespread (even if not universal) agreement that something is deeply wrong with the current system of academic publishing. The basic point, which has been made innumerable times by innumerable people, is that the really hard parts -- the writing of papers, and the peer review and selection of the ones to publish --...
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| | Recently an article in Science surveyed open access journals and found a number of distressing findings with respect to the peer review process. An overview is available at:http://www.scidev.net/global/publishing/news/sting-exposes-wild-west-of-open-access-publishing.html?utm_content=bufferb2a6d&utm_source=buffer&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Buffer The original version in Science is at:http://www.sciencemag.org/content/342/6154/60.full As the Science article acknowledges, the same results could be found if we did a survey of traditional journals as...
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| | Photo by Erik Mclean on Unsplash Recently, Zhejiang Gonggong University announced that articles published with MDPI, Frontiers Media & Hindawi, the three largest open access publishers, would not be included in research performance statistics. Universities have discouraged or banned staff from publishing in individual journals in the past, but this is the first report of...
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| Passionate researchers want to figure it out. We want to understand nature, to identify what is and why it is that way. We want to know. And when we know something, we want to tell others about it....