Morning, people of Fediscience and other academics. What does everyone think about the Frontiers journals (esp Marine Science, but also more generally)? Are they predatory or not? They’re listed as potentially predatory, and they’ve pushed back on that, but neither side seems to provide much open evidence.
Any hard quotable evidence (or even ideas for where to look) would be EXTREMELY useful, but opinions would be useful too. #journals#science#Publishing
Did anyone receive this kind of review invitation? Perhaps you @j_bertolotti ?
Apparently, they started paying 20 $ for reviewing! It seems that finally, someone paid attention to all the complaints and the quality of the existing peer review process. The fee may seem too low, but here in Turkey 🇹🇷 it equals 650 Turkish lira, which is about one week's groceries. @academicsunite#academia#research#publishing#journals#peerreview
Although I prefer journaling by hand, I have to admit that digital journaling is far more practical, safer and more secure, and I've been journaling so much more.
Really sick of all #journals and #conferences that insert a gray "for review only" (or similar sentence) as a watermark in the background of each papers to be reviewed. This is super annoying as it makes any selection of text in the pdf impossible (for most places). I'm usually often selecting text, for instance to cite authors own words in my review letter, or point them a typo, or a conceptual issue. What does this watermark really prevent? If someone with bad intention really wants to use the reviewed work, they'll find a way and this pseudo watermark won't prevent anything. If a mention "for review only" is needed, why not placing it only on the top or the bottom of the document so that it doesn't corrupt any text selection?
Dopiero teraz obejrzałem (a właściwie głównie posłuchałem) materiału, który poleciła @avolha i faktycznie, aż przyjemnie słucha się tego rantu Krzysztofa M. Maja o czasopismach naukowych. Choć jest to śmiech przez łzy, bo faktycznie perspektywa nauki jest taka, że cieszę się, że nie walczyłem o bycie "prawdziwym doktorantem" za wszelką cenę. Polecam.
PS: This new study finds much variety, as you might imagine, and recommends standardization. I'm interested in this question. If the existing variety burdens and confuses authors, could standardization lock in undesirable guidelines? How much do we want journals to go their own way (differ from one another) on the author use of AI?
Article in Science Mag. "Retraction Watch, the influential website and database that tracks retractions in scholarly literature, is joining forces with another publishing nonprofit, Crossref, in hopes of helping researchers and #journals flag articles that have been retracted and sustain the literature’s veracity. The deal announced today will link information about the 42,000 #retractions in Retraction Watch’s database to Crossref’s digital object identifier system in return for $775,000 over 5 years."
Among the suggestions here: #authors should openly share #data, #code, & #preprints. #Journals should require it. Indexing services should reward the journals that do.
To me, what's new & interesting here is going beyond authors & journals to #indexing & #abstracting#services to create incentives for journals to improve their policies.
The manuscript I coddled and bumped and steered through revisions finally got to the point where I could recommend Accept and then, a few weeks later, here's the published version!
It's like seeing your kid walk across the stage, shake the principal's hand and graduate!
I have no opinion (right now) on the new method. I just want to applaud the experiment. The foundation is using its old and new methods side by side for a time and plans to compare the results.
As a scientist, it is so infuriating, that #scientific#journals that either take extraordinary submission fees or extraordinary publishing processing fees still can't just insert a video into the HTML version of the article. Not even a hyperlink. The text says "movie S1 of Supporting Information", so you scroll down to the bottom of the page, then open the "Supporting Information" page, then click on the link for "movie S1", that downloads the video file that you can play like in 1999.
If #predatory#journals are very low in quality, dishonest, or both (my quick and dirty def), then the category covers both #subscription and #OA journals. Their defining condition is independent of their open/closed status.
To see this, it helps to point out non-OA examples now and then.
#Journals | Journal of the European Optical Society-Rapid Publications
"Germanium Fabry-Perot nanoresonators investigated by cathodoluminescence spectroscopy"
✍️ Paolo Biagioni et al. #PolitecnicoDiMilano @imperialcollege #UniWürzburg