Take a waltz down memory lane.| TV Insider
In times of increasing economic turmoil, our fashion and cultural choices can be termed 'recession indicators,' but what does that term mean? The post Is Everything Really a Recession Indicator? appeared first on The Observer.| The Observer
Un articolo pubblicato sul Guardian fa il punto sulla situazione della letteratura scientifica, i problemi che la affliggono e le cause che conducono alla pubblicazione di articoli poco significativi o scritti e revisionati da sistemi di AI, o pubblicati senza alcun processo di validazione. | Open Science @Unimi
It's been an odd week for the academic publisher MDPI. On 16th December, Finland's Publication Forum (known as JUFO) announced that from January 2025 it was downgrading its classification of 271 open access journals to the lowest level, zero. | BishopBlog
There is growing awareness that Special Issues have become a menace in the world of academic publishing, because they provide a convenient way for large volumes of low quality work to be published in journals that profit from a healthy article processing charge. There has been a consequent backlash against Special Issues, with various attempts to rein them in. Here I'll describe the backstory and show how such attempts are being subverted. | BishopBlog
"Here's one for you", said my husband, as he browsed| BishopBlog