The articles below are view points, opinions, and research pieces related to scientific publishing. See also my Open Access page.
- 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)