#journalology
Tim's recent essay on @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social made its way into Journalology! ☺️

We should point out, though, that DataSeerAI's fully automated Snapshot makes pushing for open data very cheap (on the order of $2-4 per article), whether that's before or after submission.

#scholcomm #scholcomms
November 12, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Researchers are using tiny fonts to hide prompts in their papers that tell AIs to give them a good review. (HT James Butcher's Journalology newsletter) asia.nikkei.com/Business/Tec...
'Positive review only': Researchers hide AI prompts in papers
Instructions in preprints from 14 universities highlight controversy on AI in peer review
asia.nikkei.com
July 8, 2025 at 8:13 AM
The impact factors for 2024 are published today - *sigh* - so this is a good moment to send people to the editorial I wrote last month about them, the BJGP, and QRPs/journalology. #primarycare #BJGP

bjgp.org/content/75/7...
Medical journalology and questionable research practices
The BJGP is the world’s leading journal in primary care and general practice. I’m happy to defend this assertion but the temptation is to reach for a metric to support the case. And of course, the obv...
bjgp.org
June 18, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Someone also asked what we can tell researchers who discover they have sent in their manuscript to a predatory journal. One of my favourite infographs is ottawa hospital! Definitely a tip for any #medlibs working on predatory journal awareness www.ohri.ca/journalology...
www.ohri.ca
June 12, 2025 at 8:39 AM
📝 'Yes, I’m a journalologist!'
🔊 "There are many theories and opinions as to why there are problems with the publication process"
✏️ David Moher
🔗 daily27.info/2025/04/15/y...
#Science #Research #News #Daily27 #Journalology
June 11, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Latest Journalology Newsletter covers Springer Nature's first AGM (since their 2024 IPO), in particular focusing on the "remuneration" report...

www.ir.springernature.com/media/docume...

ck.journalology.com/profile/home...
June 11, 2025 at 12:01 PM
NEW ISSUE online now: bjgp.org/content/75/...

Troubleshooting #ADHD, #IBS, #antidepressants in pregnancy, and medical journalology and questionable research practices. Also this month: perspectives on symptomatic FIT, eF12 -the new #frailty index, and don’t kill Granny, send her to the gym!
May 30, 2025 at 7:20 AM
I saw it in Journalology newsletter two weeks ago, but not sure when it came out.
May 28, 2025 at 6:01 PM
SHIFT: Read and Publish deals (it is factually incorrect to call them 'transformative') are fuelling hybrid publishing. It's a wonderful extra revenue stream. ck.journalology.com/posts/journa...
May 25, 2025 at 9:47 PM
🎵Here come old Springer he been merging up slowly
He got Palgrave Macmillan he now Springer Nature
He got share price down YTD
Good news though for Holtzbrinck he just do what he please
Springer Nature! Right now...🎵

[apol to The Beatles and Journalology]

www.springernature.com/gp/advancing...
May 12, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Interesting article in this week's journalology newsletter (James, if you read this, come and join the fun on Bluesky).

Peer review saw a big push in the 70s to prevent US gov overreach in scientific decision making. Apt historical background...

scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2018/09/26/t...
The Rise of Peer Review: Melinda Baldwin on the History of Refereeing at Scientific Journals and Funding Bodies - The Scholarly Kitchen
In this interview Robert Harington ask Melinda to talk about her recent article in Isis, entitled Scientific Autonomy, Public Accountability, and the Rise of “Peer Review” in the Cold War United State...
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org
April 28, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Pre-flight preloading all the Journalology newsletters I've been too busy to read the last little while

is this the publisher's equivalent of the academic "I'll definitely read all these papers on the plane"?
April 15, 2025 at 5:58 PM
James Butcher of Journalology ran a massive overview of the last 25 years of publishing to identify trends.

The rise of China, publisher consolidation, the dominance of the Altmetric account on Bluesky - it’s all there! Apart from that last thing.

youtu.be/xH_UaALUuk4?...
Research publishing: a 25-year view using Dimensions - James Butcher
YouTube video by Digital Science
youtu.be
February 18, 2025 at 5:42 PM
This is a helpful video from James Butcher of Journalology-fame about the growth in journal publishing in the last 25 years - includes the impacts of COVID, China, Open Access and more. youtu.be/xH_UaALUuk4?...
Research publishing: a 25-year view using Dimensions - James Butcher
YouTube video by Digital Science
youtu.be
February 18, 2025 at 3:12 PM
🌟 NEW video: We're delighted to share a guest presentation from James Butcher of Journalology!

Using Dimensions, James has analyzed research output trends over the past 25 years - and shows Dimensions' capabilities. 📈

🔗 Watch his video now: youtu.be/xH_UaALUuk4

#scholcomm #ScholarlyPublishing
February 18, 2025 at 12:46 PM
What do publishers want from an online tool reporting journal publication practices?
New work from OHRI’s Journalology Group.

f1000research.com/articles/13-...
F1000Research Article: Publisher preferences for a journal transparency tool: A modified three-round Delphi study.
Read the latest article version by Jeremy Y. Ng, Henry Liu, Mehvish Masood, Rubaina Farin, Mireille Messih, Amaya Perez, IJsbrand Jan Aalbersberg, Juan Alperin, Gregory L. Bryson, Qiuxia Chen, Alan Eh...
f1000research.com
January 31, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Crazy numbers! (seen in the Journalology newsletter)
www.openresearch.wtf/have-we-all-... Original preprint by Sci Hub funder Alexandra Elbakyan here: www.preprints.org/manuscript/2...
December 18, 2024 at 8:00 AM
in fairness the correct article is paywalled. False info for free is the new journalology
December 12, 2024 at 11:35 AM
Any journalology wizards out there?

Of the 21,151 journals in @DOAJ how many register per article DOIs with DataCite (rather than e.g. Crossref) ?

Here's two I've found:

* Global Africa (ISSN: 3020-0458)
* Ex-centric Narratives: Journal of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Media (ISSN […]
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November 20, 2024 at 2:51 PM
November 18, 2024 at 3:47 PM
In STEM a preprint mandate would be beneficial to get the information flowing faster and potentially facilitate conversations that might result in final papers with more (diverse) authors... These thoughts spurred by Journalology ck.journalology.com/posts/journa...
Journalology #91: Build it and they will come?
ck.journalology.com
September 9, 2024 at 1:51 PM
cc'ing another Brazilian researcher interested in 'journalology', @helal_lucas
December 24, 2024 at 12:46 AM
Interesting article on an important initiative for fostering #ResearchIntegrity and #OpenScience
@WCRIFoundation @NRIN_Integrity @EmbassySci @DORAssessment @sops4ri @dmoher @_Journalology

C https://cen.acs.org/policy/publishing/Centre-Journalology-hopes-fix-science/99/i17 via...
How the Centre for Journalology hopes to fix science
cen.acs.org
December 20, 2024 at 2:51 PM
Screenshot shows why I say "under-the-radar".
Frustrating lack of funding for work on journalology / reporting bias.
Thus such work often becomes a labor of love
December 24, 2024 at 8:11 AM