The articles below are view points, opinions, and research pieces related to scientific publishing. See also my Open Access page.
- The peer-review crisis: how to fix an overloaded system, by David Adam (August 2025)
- NIH details options for limiting its payments for open-access publishing fees, by Jeffrey Brainard (August 2025)
- Scientific fraud has become an ‘industry,’ alarming analysis finds, by Cathleen O’Grady (August 2025)
- The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly, by Reese A. K. Richardson, Spencer S. Hong, Jennifer A. Byrne, Thomas Stoeger, and Luís A. Nunes Amaral (August 2024)
- Shoddy commentaries—a quick and dirty route to higher impact numbers—are on the rise, by Frederik Joelving, Retraction Watch (December 2024)
- Pioneering journal eLife faces major test after loss of impact factor, by Diana Kwon (December 2024)
- Open-access journal elife will lose its ‘impact factor’ over controversial publishing model, by Jeffrey Brainard (November 2024)
- Journals with high rates of suspicious papers flagged by science-integrity start-up, by Richard Van Noorden (October 2024)
- Prescription for Controversy: Firms offering a fast track to publication target foreign applicants to U.S. medical residency programs, by F. Joelving (May 2024)
- Purpose-led Publishing (February 2024)
- The Leiden Manifesto for research metrics, by D. Hicks et al. (PDF, April 2015)
- The missing metric: quantifying the contributions of reviewers, by M. Cantor and S. Gero (PDF, April 2015)
- A paradox indeed, from the Editor of BioTechniques (PDF, April 2015)
- Nefarious numbers, by D.N. Arnold and K.K. Fowler (PDF, March 2011)