Paolo Crosetto

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Experimental & Behavioural economist INRAE Grenoble • President of the French Association of Experimental Economists • Scientific publishing measurement & reform • Experiments on food labeling - risk - choices • Rstats • Italian Food Police honorary member .. more

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Paolo Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social · Jun 15

Springer-Nature launched a series of "Discover" journals that closely mimic MDPI titles -- sharing *identical* journal names, and likely similar business model.

What is going on, and why researcher will - as always - fall for it?

A 🧵

the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...

Springer Nature Discovers MDPI – The Strain on Scientific Publishing

Home page for the paper ‘The Strain on Scientific Publishing’ by Mark A Hanson, Dan Brockington, Paolo Crosetto and Pablo Gomez Barreiro

the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io

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LucyCes @lucyces.bsky.social · 14h

Poniendo los puntos sobre las íes 👏

Beigel, F., Brockington, D., Crosetto, P., Derrick, G., Fyfe, A., Barreiro, P. G., Hanson, M. A., Haustein, S., Larivière, V., Noe, C., Pinfield, S., & Wilsdon, J. (2025). The Drain of Scientific Publishing (No. arXiv:2511.04820). arXiv. doi.org/10.48550/arX...

The Drain of Scientific Publishing

The domination of scientific publishing in the Global North by major commercial publishers is harmful to science. We need the most powerful members of the research community, funders, governments and ...

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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 2d

3,900 Pages of Paul Klee’s Personal Notebooks Are Now Online, Highlighting His Bauhaus Teachings (1921–1931)

Paul Klee led an artistic life that spanned the 19th and 20th centuries, but he kept his aesthetic sensibility tuned to the future.

www.openculture.com

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Stefanie Haustein @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca · 3d

80 download of my checklist of actionable items for any researcher to adopt to support an equitable and sustainable scholarly publishing landscape zenodo.org/records/1741...
Still need to do this myself, but I'd love to see printouts on office doors or hallways ;) #AcademicSky #OpenAccess #DiamondOA

For Equitable and sustainable scholarly publishing | Pour un édition scientifique équitable et pérenne [Checklist]

This bilingual checklist presents 13 concrete actions researchers can take to move toward a more equitable and sustainable scholarly publishing ecosystem.Each action is classified by career stage (all...

zenodo.org

Reposted by Paolo Crosetto, Brian Weatherson

Experimental Philosophy @xphilosopher.bsky.social · 4d

There’s growing evidence that something was going seriously wrong in the classic early work on cognitive dissonance

Latest revelation: The story in When Prophecy Fails seems to have been fabricated in the most egregious way

But this is not the only one…

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Debunking “When Prophecy Fails”

In 1954, Dorothy Martin predicted an apocalyptic flood and promised her followers rescue by flying saucers. When neither arrived, she recanted, her group dissolved, and efforts to proselytize ceased....

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Reposted by Dorothy Bishop, David Lazer, Scott L. Greer , and 10 more Dorothy Bishop, David Lazer, Scott L. Greer, Paolo Crosetto, Caroline T. Schroeder, Jacob T. Levy, Olivier Morin, Jens Rydgren, Zen Faulkes, Juanjo Medina, Peter Gratton, Annette Yoshiko Reed, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò

Nathanael Larigaldie @nathlarigaldie.bsky.social · 5d

Ok, just wow. If the content of this article is right, this is depressing. We're slowly reaching the point where ~100% of what I was taught in Social Psych was either innocently wrong or plainly frauded

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Debunking “When Prophecy Fails”

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Paolo Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social · 7d

You might want to have a look at Refine, a tool developed by @bengolub.bsky.social that looks generally similar to q.e.d. -- more focused on providing pre-review feedback to spot mistakes and inconsistencies.

www.refine.ink

refine

AI feedback for research.

www.refine.ink

Paolo Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social · 7d

Last 10 days to submit to the Winter Workshop in Behavioral and Experimental Economics of Food Consumption.

Working on experiments & food? Submit!

Laser-focused yet cozy workshop, deep in the Alps, lots of time to present & discuss, no participation fees.

Info sites.google.com/view/winterw...

Paolo Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social · 7d

I'd go for rice

Paolo Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social · 7d

This coming Saturday I'll be presenting about the Strain on Scientific Publishing at a round table organized by the Italian Oncology Association.

Very good to see that MDs are taking the crisis in scientific publications seriously and are looking for paths towards a saner system.

Tumori Journal - TJ @tumorijournal.bsky.social · 8d

📅 8 NOV | #Ethics in the evaluation of scientific research quality.
AIOM and Tumori Journal reflect on an issue that seems to be urgent for scientific community. Meet the outstanting panel, join the discussion!😀

📌XXVII AIOM Congress, Rome congresso.aiom.it

@paolocrosetto.bsky.social

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Tumori Journal - TJ @tumorijournal.bsky.social · 8d

Reposted by Rosemary A. Joyce, Paolo Crosetto, Alan Richardson , and 2 more Rosemary A. Joyce, Paolo Crosetto, Alan Richardson, Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Dana R. Fisher

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 12d

I’ve been thinking a lot about a new kind of polling I’d like to see. We have polling that measures public opinion, which is obviously important, but I’d love to see a little more empirical work on public knowledge: what do voters know about politics and policy?

Reposted by Trevon D. Logan, Paolo Crosetto

Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 13d

Special Issue of the Journal of Industrial Organization in honor of Pat Bajari. Please share widely!
#EconSky
www2.cloud.editorialmanager.com/ijio/default...

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Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 19d

Check this out andreamatranga.github.io/spiralnotes/

Paolo Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social · 24d

Thanks for this, I read the whole entry, some stuff I did not know (eg about the origins of MDPI) and I generally agree with your takes.

Reposted by Will Jennings, Steve Peers, Anna Hickey‐Moody , and 5 more Will Jennings, Steve Peers, Anna Hickey‐Moody, Jonathan Hopkin, Paolo Crosetto, Matthew Kelly, Johannes Breuer, Joost van Spanje

Lukas Haffert @lhaffert.bsky.social · 24d

Why do rustbelts vote radical right? Studying the German Ruhr area, @nilsblossey.bsky.social, @lstoetze.bsky.social and I show: it’s not just about deindustrialization, but also about the original industrialization. Where coal is buried deeper and mining started later, the AfD is stronger today 1/12

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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 24d

Very cool: Lisa Spitzer has made a deviation from preregistrations template, which you can find here: apps.leibniz-psychology.org/prp-dev/

PreReg: Deviation Template

apps.leibniz-psychology.org

Paolo Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social · 24d

it's sloooow though, especially on grouped data frames

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Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training @forrt.bsky.social · 24d

REPLICATION RESEARCH, the diamond open-access journal co-hosted by FORRT and MüCOS, is now live!

🔓 Free to read and publish for everyone, with open peer review, reproducibility checks, we are pushing the boundaries of what open scholarship and fair publishing mean.

🧵

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Jakub Nowosad @jakubnowosad.com · 26d

New R package: gridmappr by Roger Beecham

It automates creating small multiple gridmap layouts by optimally placing geographic points into grid cells (inspired by Jo Wood’s Observable notebooks).

👉 github.com/rogerbeecham...

#RStats #RSpatial #DataViz #GISchat

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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 26d

Here's a nice example:

Coinciding with our launch of tracking Bluesky in December 2024, an article talking about the strain on scientific publishing by @hansonmark.bsky.social went viral, particularly on this platform.

direct.mit.edu/qss/a...
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The strain on scientific publishing

Abstract. Scientists are increasingly overwhelmed by the volume of articles being published. The total number of articles indexed in Scopus and Web of Science has grown exponentially in recent years; in 2022 the article total was ∼47% higher than in 2016, which has outpaced the limited growth—if any—in the number of practicing scientists. Thus, publication workload per scientist has increased dramatically. We define this problem as “the strain on scientific publishing.” To analyze this strain, we present five data-driven metrics showing publisher growth, processing times, and citation behaviors. We draw these data from web scrapes, and from publishers through their websites or upon request. Specific groups have disproportionately grown in their articles published per year, contributing to this strain. Some publishers enabled this growth by hosting “special issues” with reduced turnaround times. Given pressures on researchers to “publish or perish” to compete for funding, this strain was likely amplified by these offers to publish more articles. We also observed widespread year-over-year inflation of journal impact factors coinciding with this strain, which risks confusing quality signals. Such exponential growth cannot be sustained. The metrics we define here should enable this evolving conversation to reach actionable solutions to address the strain on scientific publishing.

direct.mit.edu

Reposted by Andrew K Przybylski, Magnus Johansson, Paolo Crosetto , and 1 more Andrew K Przybylski, Magnus Johansson, Paolo Crosetto, Juanjo Medina

Matti Vuorre @matti.vuorre.com · 27d

Against Publishing: universonline.nl/nieuws/2025/...

Preprints are read, shared, and cited, yet still dismissed as incomplete until blessed by a publisher. I argue that the true measure of scholarship lies in open exchange, not in the industry’s gatekeeping of what counts as published.

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Alex Alekseev @aalexee.bsky.social · Oct 10

Thrilled to see my paper "The (Statistical) Power of Incentives" out at the Journal of the Economic Science Association. 🥳

Read it here (open access) 👉 dx.doi.org/10.1017/esa....

#Econsky

The (Statistical) Power of Incentives | Journal of the Economic Science Association | Cambridge Core

The (Statistical) Power of Incentives

dx.doi.org

Reposted by Brian A. Nosek, Paolo Crosetto, Veli‐Matti Karhulahti

Marin Dacos @marind.bsky.social · Oct 7

Finland Now Has a National Roadmap for Open Science and Research Funding avointiede.fi/en/news/finl...

Finland Now Has a National Roadmap for Open Science and Research Funding

avointiede.fi

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Ilya Kashnitsky @ikashnitsky.phd · Oct 3

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The very special paper on special issues by @paolocrosetto.bsky.social and @hansonmark.bsky.social 👀

Ilya Kashnitsky @ikashnitsky.phd · Dec 22

I'm so happy to see this paper published in QSS!

When it comes to MDPI, many people in academia are still playing the lost game of allowing them the benefit of doubt.

This figure had been faithfully killing those ridiculous demagogic attempts for over a year now 🙌

#ScientificPublishing

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Ilya Kashnitsky @ikashnitsky.phd · Oct 3

Guardian's @scienceweekly.bsky.social podcast produced probably the best succinct discussion and overview of what's happening in #ScientificPublishing — a fully blown crisis, featuring @hansonmark.bsky.social co-author of a seminal paper on special issues 👇
🎙️ www.theguardian.com/science/audi...

Fraud, AI slop and huge profits: is science publishing broken? – podcast

Scientists warn academic publishing needs reform in order to retain trust in research system. Ian Sample talks to Madeleine Finlay and Dr Mark Hanson proposes potential solutions

www.theguardian.com

Paolo Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social · Oct 2

timeo danaos et dona ferentes

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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · Oct 2

See two really key papers

Butler et al.: publishers are profiteering immensely off scientific journals, and it has to stop. direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

Hanson et al.: the strain scientists feel is real, & it's because too many papers coming from #PublishOrPerish pressures
#ResearchIntegrity

The oligopoly’s shift to open access: How the big five academic publishers profit from article processing charges

Abstract. We aim to estimate the total amount of article processing charges (APCs) paid to publish open access (OA) in journals controlled by the five large commercial publishers (Elsevier, Sage, Spri...

direct.mit.edu

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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · Oct 2

Thanks @iansample.bsky.social at @theguardian.com podcast for chatting #ScientificPublishing.

This pod follows from The Strain on Scientific Publishing & reports of publisher profit margins rivalling Google etc...

Paper: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

Pod: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s...

Fraud, AI slop and huge profits: is science publishing broken?

Podcast Episode · Science Weekly · 02/10/2025 · 18m

podcasts.apple.com

Paolo Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social · Sep 23

In the Alps we have Chartreuse, Dahu, snow, and the Fourth Winter Workshop in Behavioral and Experimental Economics!

sites.google.com/view/winterw...

Keynotes by Jutta Roosen (Munich) & Liam Delaney (LSE), a cozy relaxed atmosphere -- Jan 28th-30th, 2026, Villard de Lans [by Grenoble].

Join us!

Paolo Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social · Sep 22

Oral exams.

That's it, that's the solution.

Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · Sep 22

I cannot tell you how grim the AI in higher ed situation is. Many of the students have completely surrendered to letting AI do their homework, badly, I might add. How do you fix this? Truly, what the hell do we do, beyond what grading can address, which isn't a solution?

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