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Disappointing decision by Clarivate to use its status to attempt to squash innovation in science publishing. I was asked to comment on behalf of ASAPbio for a journalist's write-up of the situation, but my quote got cut. I'll share it here instead (below).

Richard Sever@richardsever.bsky.social · 2y ago

Clarivate will strip eLife of its Impact Factor They never wanted one but will be interesting to see how this affects submissions given academia's obsession with it. retractionwatch.com/2024/11/13/e... But 1/2

We're getting ready to launch MetaROR and make peer review faster, more transparent, and more efficient 💪 Join us for the official launch of MetaROR, a new open platform for reviewing and sharing metaresearch operating with an innovative publish-review-curate model. Launch Events ⬇️

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We're excited to announce a major update to the Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) Guidelines—TOP 2025! These guidelines streamline research practices and provide greater clarity around openness in research. The preprint is now available. Your feedback is welcome! www.cos.io/blog/new-pre...

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The ancient Q of paying for #PeerReview resurfaced on 💙☁️, most recently with the antitrust lawsuit against publishers, & so I thought is a good moment to re-vamp my (X)🧵 on the 450 Movement. Before you start: read the post from James Heathers #AcademicSky 1/ jamesheathers.medium.com/the-450-move...

The 450 Movement

I do peer review and I want you to pay me four hundred and fifty dollars. I’ll even say please.

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Journal fees for open access are becoming obscene. But what are we, scientists, paying for? I made a simple plot with journals in my research area(s). Clearly, we are paying for prestige: a shockingly clean correlation between the impact factor and journal fees

A plot showing prestige (impact factor) on vertical axis and fees charged by journals on horizontal axis.

After asking the government (or private foundations) to pay for the costs of doing research, we conduct the research and write papers about it that our peers review for free, then we donate those papers to for-profit companies that sell them back to us at high prices. This is considered normal.

nora "nora.jewelry is now open" rude (they/them ze/hir)@nora.zone · 2y ago

ok i have another quote tweet prompt. what's something, big or small, related to your job or hobby, that most people don't know that you would like to have them know? it can be a concept, a piece of history, some vocabulary, or something else.

Springer Nature decides to "change the direction" of sociology journal Theory and Society and asks the editorial board to resign...which they do and set up their own new open access journal: Theory and Social Inquiry. #Sociology

introducing theory and social inquiry

The below is a letter from the editorial board of a new journal, Theory and Social Inquiry. Here is the statement in its original PDF form. While I had no hand in this, I wholly endorse the endeavor. ...

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