@innostudy.bsky.social
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Very proud of the improvements made by the Leiden Ranking team to the Open Edition of the ranking.
This demonstrates our commitment at CWTS to @barcelonadori.bsky.social and the open research information transition.
Great work by @neesjanvaneck.bsky.social and the rest of the team!
This demonstrates our commitment at CWTS to @barcelonadori.bsky.social and the open research information transition.
Great work by @neesjanvaneck.bsky.social and the rest of the team!
📊 The CWTS Leiden Ranking 2025 is online! 🎉 This time, we have released not one, but two editions: the Traditional Edition and the Open Edition. www.leidenranking.com
CWTS Leiden Ranking
The CWTS Leiden Ranking offers important insights into the scientific performance for major universities worldwide. Select your preferred indicators, generate results, and explore the performance of u...
www.leidenranking.com
October 29, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Very proud of the improvements made by the Leiden Ranking team to the Open Edition of the ranking.
This demonstrates our commitment at CWTS to @barcelonadori.bsky.social and the open research information transition.
Great work by @neesjanvaneck.bsky.social and the rest of the team!
This demonstrates our commitment at CWTS to @barcelonadori.bsky.social and the open research information transition.
Great work by @neesjanvaneck.bsky.social and the rest of the team!
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Some real fake news! Paper mills are creating fake authors who can then serve as fake reviewers. The illustration of the fake reviewer sitting at their desk is excellent. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
How to spot fake scientists and stop them from publishing papers
Journals are considering doing identity checks to expose fake authors — but there are downsides.
www.nature.com
October 22, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Some real fake news! Paper mills are creating fake authors who can then serve as fake reviewers. The illustration of the fake reviewer sitting at their desk is excellent. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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It is very good to see reforming academic reward and recognition as the first point listed in this Publishing Futures from @universitypress.cambridge.org report in considering ways forward for the future of academic publishing 🤩 Read more below 👇
📢 Our new report 'Publishing futures: Working together to deliver radical change in academic publishing' calls for urgent, coordinated action to make academic publishing more open, equitable, and sustainable.
🎥 Learn more in our short video: https://cup.org/4qemvBy
🎥 Learn more in our short video: https://cup.org/4qemvBy
Cambridge University Press calls for radical reform and collective action
Our new report 'Publishing futures: Working together to deliver radical change in academic publishing' calls for urgent, collective action to ensure academic publishing becomes more open, equitable, and sustainable. The report found that without urgent,...
youtu.be
October 24, 2025 at 10:44 AM
It is very good to see reforming academic reward and recognition as the first point listed in this Publishing Futures from @universitypress.cambridge.org report in considering ways forward for the future of academic publishing 🤩 Read more below 👇
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this is relevant jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
October 24, 2025 at 7:02 PM
this is relevant jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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"The scientific hegemony the USA had for decades has gone...the percentage of papers with a Chinese author [i]n 2025 is 23%, the USA 11%...transition to open access is only possible if Chinese researchers change their publishing habits" newsletter.journalology.com/p/the-rise-o...
The rise of China and the fall of open access
The theme of Open Access Week is "Who owns our knowledge?". The answer is increasingly likely to be "China".
newsletter.journalology.com
October 25, 2025 at 10:33 PM
"The scientific hegemony the USA had for decades has gone...the percentage of papers with a Chinese author [i]n 2025 is 23%, the USA 11%...transition to open access is only possible if Chinese researchers change their publishing habits" newsletter.journalology.com/p/the-rise-o...
AI-powered fraud: Chinese paper mills are mass-producing fake academic research www.scmp.com/tech/tech-tr...
How Chinese paper mills use AI to create ‘higher quality’ academic fraud
Paper mills that sell authorship or fabricate entire papers are a staple of China’s competitive academic landscape.
www.scmp.com
October 16, 2025 at 1:43 AM
AI-powered fraud: Chinese paper mills are mass-producing fake academic research www.scmp.com/tech/tech-tr...
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Our periodic review of the coverage of the major bibliographic databases (October 2025)
GS no longer the largest due to the huge increase of OpenAlex. New data for Xueshu
GS no longer the largest due to the huge increase of OpenAlex. New data for Xueshu
October 13, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Our periodic review of the coverage of the major bibliographic databases (October 2025)
GS no longer the largest due to the huge increase of OpenAlex. New data for Xueshu
GS no longer the largest due to the huge increase of OpenAlex. New data for Xueshu
Undercover investigation reveals shocking secrets of a "paper mill": The head claims to have earned 80 million yuan last year by publishing 130,000 papers, claiming he has exclusive resources and that manuscripts without ... (Google Translate) news.ifeng.com/c/8nQISfY6x7l
卧底调查“论文工厂”惊人内幕：负责人称去年发表13万篇论文赚8000万，宣称有独家资源非关系稿不会被录用
卧底调查“论文工厂”惊人内幕：负责人称去年发表13万篇论文赚8000万，宣称有独家资源非关系稿不会被录用
news.ifeng.com
October 14, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Undercover investigation reveals shocking secrets of a "paper mill": The head claims to have earned 80 million yuan last year by publishing 130,000 papers, claiming he has exclusive resources and that manuscripts without ... (Google Translate) news.ifeng.com/c/8nQISfY6x7l
Low quality papers are flooding the cancer literature — can this AI tool help to catch them? www.nature.com/articles/d41..., Revealing the Paper Mill Iceberg: AI-Based Screening of Cancer Research Publications www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Low quality papers are flooding the cancer literature — can this AI tool help to catch them?
A large language model scans abstracts and titles for signs that an article was produced by a 'paper-mill' company.
www.nature.com
October 10, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Low quality papers are flooding the cancer literature — can this AI tool help to catch them? www.nature.com/articles/d41..., Revealing the Paper Mill Iceberg: AI-Based Screening of Cancer Research Publications www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Powerful piece, highly recommended!
New Blog Post:
Scholarly Communication Is a Research Problem. This Means You.
pracheeac.substack.com/p/scholarly-...
Scholarly Communication Is a Research Problem. This Means You.
pracheeac.substack.com/p/scholarly-...
Scholarly Communication Is a Research Problem. This Means You.
Scholarly Communication Is a Research Problem.
pracheeac.substack.com
October 4, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Powerful piece, highly recommended!
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The Proceedings of WOOC 2025 are online! 🎉
📖 Index volume: zenodo.org/records/1719...
📚 All papers: zenodo.org/communities/...
@barcelonadori.bsky.social @opencitations.bsky.social @unibo.it #WOOC2025
📖 Index volume: zenodo.org/records/1719...
📚 All papers: zenodo.org/communities/...
@barcelonadori.bsky.social @opencitations.bsky.social @unibo.it #WOOC2025
Proceedings of the Workshop on Open Citations and Open Scholarly Metadata (WOOC 2025) – Index Volume
This is the index volume of the Proceedings of the Workshop on Open Citations and Open Scholarly Metadata (WOOC 2025), held in Bologna on 28–29 May 2025. Each workshop contribution is published in Zen...
zenodo.org
October 2, 2025 at 10:10 AM
The Proceedings of WOOC 2025 are online! 🎉
📖 Index volume: zenodo.org/records/1719...
📚 All papers: zenodo.org/communities/...
@barcelonadori.bsky.social @opencitations.bsky.social @unibo.it #WOOC2025
📖 Index volume: zenodo.org/records/1719...
📚 All papers: zenodo.org/communities/...
@barcelonadori.bsky.social @opencitations.bsky.social @unibo.it #WOOC2025
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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...
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
October 2, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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...
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...
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There’s a striking pattern among the top journals targeted by an Indian paper mill. All have sharply increased their publication number in recent years.
Is this growth driven by publisher goals, a surge in submissions due to AI, or both?
#papermills
Is this growth driven by publisher goals, a surge in submissions due to AI, or both?
#papermills
October 3, 2025 at 11:28 AM
There’s a striking pattern among the top journals targeted by an Indian paper mill. All have sharply increased their publication number in recent years.
Is this growth driven by publisher goals, a surge in submissions due to AI, or both?
#papermills
Is this growth driven by publisher goals, a surge in submissions due to AI, or both?
#papermills
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Excited to work with a wonderful group of international colleagues to promote openness of publication metadata in negotiations with publishers!
@cwts.nl
@cwts.nl
1/3 Launching the BD/OA2020 Joint Task Force on Negotiating Openness of Publication Metadata.
We will work on: framework & clauses · tools/templates · pilots · capacity-building.
Read: barcelona-declaration.org/news/2025100...
and: oa2020.org/2025/10/02/b...
#OpenResearchInformation #OpenScience
We will work on: framework & clauses · tools/templates · pilots · capacity-building.
Read: barcelona-declaration.org/news/2025100...
and: oa2020.org/2025/10/02/b...
#OpenResearchInformation #OpenScience
Barcelona Declaration and OA2020 launch Joint Task Force on Negotiating Openness of Publication Metadata
We are excited to announce the launch of a Joint Task Force on Negotiating Openness of Publication Metadata, established in partnership between the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information a...
barcelona-declaration.org
October 2, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Excited to work with a wonderful group of international colleagues to promote openness of publication metadata in negotiations with publishers!
@cwts.nl
@cwts.nl
Rethinking the narrative on vaccine policy and public trust doi.org/10.1136/bmj....
Rethinking the narrative on vaccine policy and public trust
Kirkland and Greer’s article about Robert F Kennedy Jr and others in the antivaccine movement offers a timely and urgent critique of current US vaccine policy leadership and its global ripple effects....
doi.org
October 2, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Rethinking the narrative on vaccine policy and public trust doi.org/10.1136/bmj....
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Open Science Workshop - detecting errors and misconduct in science
Dates: 20-22 October
Location: Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Registration link: tinyurl.com/3xkd8twf
ONLY PHYSICAL ATTENDENCE POSSIBLE! NO ONLINE POSSIBILITIES.
Dates: 20-22 October
Location: Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Registration link: tinyurl.com/3xkd8twf
ONLY PHYSICAL ATTENDENCE POSSIBLE! NO ONLINE POSSIBILITIES.
September 29, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Open Science Workshop - detecting errors and misconduct in science
Dates: 20-22 October
Location: Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Registration link: tinyurl.com/3xkd8twf
ONLY PHYSICAL ATTENDENCE POSSIBLE! NO ONLINE POSSIBILITIES.
Dates: 20-22 October
Location: Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Registration link: tinyurl.com/3xkd8twf
ONLY PHYSICAL ATTENDENCE POSSIBLE! NO ONLINE POSSIBILITIES.
AI models are using material from retracted scientific papers www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/23/1...
AI models are using material from retracted scientific papers
Some companies are working to remedy the issue.
www.technologyreview.com
September 29, 2025 at 5:25 AM
AI models are using material from retracted scientific papers www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/23/1...
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This is a great article on paper mills by Lea Wolz (in German). It provides a general overview of paper mills and their impact on science. It gives examples of how fake papers penetrate Cochrane reviews and bias recommendations. Highly recommended!
www.quarks.de/gesellschaft...
#papermills
www.quarks.de/gesellschaft...
#papermills
Fake-Studien: Dubiose Firmen unterwandern die Wissenschaft
Die Zahl an Fake-Studien von dubiosen Firmen steigt rasant. Wie groß ist das Problem – und kann dieser wissenschaftliche Müll Patienten schaden? Wissenschaftler warnen vor den Folgen.
www.quarks.de
September 20, 2025 at 7:18 PM
This is a great article on paper mills by Lea Wolz (in German). It provides a general overview of paper mills and their impact on science. It gives examples of how fake papers penetrate Cochrane reviews and bias recommendations. Highly recommended!
www.quarks.de/gesellschaft...
#papermills
www.quarks.de/gesellschaft...
#papermills
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First thing after the summer break: getting ready for Bristol, where I’ll present our work on stealth journal takeovers and their telltale signs at @stienid2025.bsky.social. Already available at doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
September 1, 2025 at 9:29 AM
First thing after the summer break: getting ready for Bristol, where I’ll present our work on stealth journal takeovers and their telltale signs at @stienid2025.bsky.social. Already available at doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
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Truly grateful by the interest our presentation on stealth journal takeovers generated at the STI in Bristol last week. Thanks to everyone who approached me to discuss it during the conference! @stienid2025.bsky.social read the whole story at zenodo.org/records/1476... and zenodo.org/records/1521...
September 8, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Truly grateful by the interest our presentation on stealth journal takeovers generated at the STI in Bristol last week. Thanks to everyone who approached me to discuss it during the conference! @stienid2025.bsky.social read the whole story at zenodo.org/records/1476... and zenodo.org/records/1521...
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Can large language models stand in for human participants?
Many social scientists seem to think so, and are already using "silicon samples" in research.
One problem: depending on the analytic decisions made, you can basically get these samples to show any effect you want.
THREAD 🧵
Many social scientists seem to think so, and are already using "silicon samples" in research.
One problem: depending on the analytic decisions made, you can basically get these samples to show any effect you want.
THREAD 🧵
The threat of analytic flexibility in using large language models to simulate human data: A call to attention
Social scientists are now using large language models to create "silicon samples" - synthetic datasets intended to stand in for human respondents, aimed at revolutionising human subjects research. How...
arxiv.org
September 18, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Can large language models stand in for human participants?
Many social scientists seem to think so, and are already using "silicon samples" in research.
One problem: depending on the analytic decisions made, you can basically get these samples to show any effect you want.
THREAD 🧵
Many social scientists seem to think so, and are already using "silicon samples" in research.
One problem: depending on the analytic decisions made, you can basically get these samples to show any effect you want.
THREAD 🧵
How to Fight Fraudulent Publishing in the Mathematical Sciences: Joint Recommendations of the IMU and the ICIAM
arxiv.org/abs/2509.09877
arxiv.org/abs/2509.09877
How to Fight Fraudulent Publishing in the Mathematical Sciences: Joint Recommendations of the IMU and the ICIAM
These recommendations were formulated by the authors in close collaboration with the IMU Committee on Publishing (chaired by Ilka Agricola) and have been endorsed by the Executive Committee of the IMU...
arxiv.org
September 18, 2025 at 11:51 PM
How to Fight Fraudulent Publishing in the Mathematical Sciences: Joint Recommendations of the IMU and the ICIAM
arxiv.org/abs/2509.09877
arxiv.org/abs/2509.09877
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RetractBASE (retractbase.csic.es), the largest open search engine specialized on retracted literature, makes publicly accessible their datasets here: osf.io/xtrsb/files/...
September 15, 2025 at 2:15 PM
RetractBASE (retractbase.csic.es), the largest open search engine specialized on retracted literature, makes publicly accessible their datasets here: osf.io/xtrsb/files/...
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Whoa! Elsevier fired @richardtol.bsky.social, longstanding Editor-in-Chief of the journal Energy Economics. Richard's side of the story should be ringing alarm bells. #EconSky
Fraud and cover-up
richardtol.substack.com/p/fraud-and-...
Fraud and cover-up
richardtol.substack.com/p/fraud-and-...
Fraud and cover-up
Fraud and cover-up
richardtol.substack.com
September 15, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Whoa! Elsevier fired @richardtol.bsky.social, longstanding Editor-in-Chief of the journal Energy Economics. Richard's side of the story should be ringing alarm bells. #EconSky
Fraud and cover-up
richardtol.substack.com/p/fraud-and-...
Fraud and cover-up
richardtol.substack.com/p/fraud-and-...