Read the full story in Nature. Scopus has stopped adding content from most of the flagged titles, but the analysis highlights how poor-quality science is
Category: Scientific publishing
Science family of journals announces change to open-access policy
Read the full story in Nature. Subscription journals will let some Plan S funded researchers share accepted manuscripts under open licences.
A Retracted Paper Has Been Cited Hundreds Of Times, Pointing To Wider Problems
Read the full story at IFLS. Science’s greatest strength is its capacity to correct its mistakes, but it doesn’t always happen. Professor Jodi Schneider is trying to
Faux peer-reviewed journals: a threat to research integrity
Read the full post at BishopBlog. Despite all its imperfections, peer review is one marker of scientific quality – it indicates that an article has
Patterns of retractions from 1981-2020 : Does a fraud lead to another fraud?
Download the document. Misconduct accounts for the majority of retracted scientific publications and this database reveals the disturbing trend in science~\citep{fang2012misconduct, brainard2018massive}. The objective of
A new mandate highlights costs, benefits of making all scientific articles free to read
Read the full story in Science. In 2018, a group of mostly European funders sent shock waves through the world of scientific publishing by proposing
