Based on a suggestion from @gsescousse.bsky.social, we wanted to use our WhereToPublish database to check the relationship between article processing charges (APCs) and the "prestige" of the journal. 1/7
Where to Publish?
wheretopublish.github.io
Nicolas Clairis
@nclairis.bsky.social
Postdoc passionate about effort-based decision-making and the roots of effort aversiveness. If you are on Mastodon, my profile is: @nicolasclairis@fediscience.org
In times when people talk more and more about sovereignty, I was curious to use our WhereToPublish database to explore in which country most journals are based based on their publisher.
Where to Publish?
wheretopublish.github.io
While @phylogenetrips.bsky.social and I were presenting the Where To Publish database (wheretopublish.github.io) in french to the CRNL in Lyon, @diegoharta.bsky.social was presenting the Where To Publish database in Spanish to the UNAM in Mexico! Where To Publish recording starting at 38:30
Ecología y Evolución del Pez Payaso. Genómica y simulaciones
YouTube video by Instituto de Ecología, UNAM
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Yesterday, we were invited to present Where To Publish to the CRNL in Lyon. The presentation (in french) can be found below. Thanks again to the Scientific Integrity Working Group in Lyon for the invitation. Things are moving! #openAccess #scientificPublicationSystem #publishOrPerish #AcademicSky
GRT Intégrité scientifique - Where_to_publish
Le Groupe de Travail Intégrité Scientifique a invité les auteurs de la base de données Where to Publish le Vendredi 24 avril 2026. Where to Publish est une base de données innovante qui recense les re...
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Based on much evidence that many publishers use the pressure to publish open access (OA) as a means to increase the article processing charges (APCs) I wanted to verify the assumption that for-profit OA journals are more expensive than for-profit non-OA journals in our where to publish database
Adoption of open access is rising – but so too are its costs - LSE Impact
Options available to authors to make their work open access are on the rise. Adoption of open access itself is also rising, and usage of open-access materials is similarly increasing. However, alongsi...
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😢 the "Choose Europe" is a big joke in front of such cuts #chooseEurope
RogueESR@rogueesr.bsky.social · 4mo agoLes dotations aux unités du CNRS sont tombées: cure d'austérité trumpienne pour la recherche fondamentale. Pour la première fois, le budget prévisionnel était déficitaire, de 239 millions € (nous l'avions annoncé). Encore 20 millions de moins demandés par Matignon. rogueesr.fr/wp-content/u...
I always had the vague feeling that Scientific Reports and Nature Communications are mainly APC business models. A paper estimated the total APC for gold/hybrid Open Access per journal 2015–2018: doi.org/10.1162/qss_... Surprise, surprise - there are 2 outliers at the top😐
"High-profile, high-fee journals affected include Nature Communications, Cell Reports, and Science Advances." Things are accelerating a bit as it seems when one of the only countries who raised its science budget decides to changes the journals it accepts to fund... #AcademicSky
Major Chinese funder to stop paying fees for 30 pricey open-access journals
Move comes amid effort to grow the country’s own journals
science.org
🚨Today 4pm CET🚨 PCI Webinar: The Drain of Scientific Publishing: why publishing is becoming a burden for science and how to fix it An overview talk based on three papers on #ScientificPublishing, where it stands & how to fix it. Plus dad jokes and bad acronyms. peercommunityin.org/pci-webinar-...
sad for US but " Abrahams hopes to host the ceremony in a different European city every other year." 😍
David Grimm@david-grimm.bsky.social · 5mo ago“I expect at some point” that the ceremony will make its way back across the pond, says Ig Nobel founder Marc Abrahams. But “the way things are right now, I doubt that the ceremony will be back in the U.S. in any of the next few years.” Nice coverage by @hannah-richter.bsky.social for @science.org
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Springer Nature Discovers MDPI – The Strain on Scientific Publishing
Home page for the paper ‘The Strain on Scientific Publishing’ by Mark A Hanson, Dan Brockington, Paolo Crosetto and Pablo Gomez Barreiro
the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io
Johannes Gierschner@gierschner.bsky.social · 5mo ago'invited' to review for Springer's MDPI-clon "Discover ..." 🤦♂️ 👉 Publishers deliberately invent journals to skim the impertinent profits with (AI-generated) papers mimicking science - all on public costs... How long will Funding Bodies play this game? 🤔 #ResearchIntegrity #ChemSky #CompChemSky
Based on our WhereToPublish database, we were curious to see if the APCs depend on the publisher type and with relatively no surprise at all, the journals that are for-profit are way above: For-profit journals = 2635 +/- 37€ (mean +/- sem) Non-profit & University Press journals = 1996 +/- 63€ 1/4
Unsurprising, but still sad that it didn't work out www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
Academic publishers defeat lawsuit over ‘peer review’ pay, other restrictions
A group of major academic publishers convinced a judge in New York to dismiss a lawsuit accusing them of thwarting competition by barring scholars from submitting papers to multiple journals simultane...
reuters.com
If you work at the intersection of computational neuroscience and machine learning, consider applying for this postdoc position (January 2027 start date): academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/15868 An opportunity to work with a great group of people across Harvard, MIT, and UC Berkeley.
Dear all, I'm happy to present you a side project done with @diegoharta.bsky.social @phylogenetrips.bsky.social & Lucas Baudouin regarding the publication landscape in Biology: wheretopublish.github.io 1/4
Where to Publish?
wheretopublish.github.io
Happy World Greek Language Day! Καλή μέρα σε όλους! www.unesco.org/en/articles/... #greek #greekLanguageDay
World Greek Language Day
Following the decision adopted at the recent UNESCO General Conference concerning the Greek language and its contribution to universal culture, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
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Just learned about this study looking at methodological trends in psych and econ over time: online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art.... Matches my perception well: Nobody in psych bothers to (explicitly) try causal inference unless they conducted an experiment, not a lot of theoretical work either.
Institut Pasteur (@pasteur.fr) is recruiting new young PIs to open new groups in the Institute. Deadline is February 9th! Don't miss the opportunity!
🧵 New paper in @NatureComms Feedback-induced attitudinal changes in risk preferences Nasioulas, Potier, Cerrotti, Lebreton & me (2026) Does feedback really improve risky decision-making? Short answer: no! it changes attitudes, not learning. 👇 rdcu.be/e0VcO
Feedback-induced attitudinal changes in risk preferences
Nature Communications - Normative theory predicts that feedback should not affect decisions under risk, but past findings disagree. Here, the authors show that feedback shifts risk-taking by...
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Main postdoc study out! We can redefine prefrontal cortex regions with single-unit activity! Grateful to @carlenlab.bsky.social and @weltgeischt.bsky.social who made this crazy project real. Thanks to all co-authors, collaborators, and reviewers. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A prefrontal cortex map based on single-neuron activity - Nature Neuroscience
The authors mapped spontaneous and choice activity across mouse prefrontal cortex. The activity maps aligned with intrinsic connectivity rather than anatomical subregions, suggesting that connectivity...
nature.com
Kent, Essex and apparently Sussex all decline to be gouged by Elsevier Read & Publish deals. Others may well follow. 1/2
Three major research universities opt out of new Elsevier deal
Complaints over ‘price increases’ and open access models spur UK institutions to walk away from offer from publishing giant, despite nationally negotiated agreement
timeshighereducation.com
Oui, When Prophecy Fails, l'étude fondatrice de la théorie de la dissonance cognitive repose sur des faits fabriqués : onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/.... Une "dissonance cognitive" auquelle beaucoup restent accrochés, dont G. Bronner, malgré les critiques connues du concept (et c'est meta 💀)
Debunking “When Prophecy Fails”
In 1954, Dorothy Martin predicted an apocalyptic flood and promised her followers rescue by flying saucers. When neither arrived, she recanted, her group dissolved, and efforts to proselytize ceased....
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Nicolas Hénin@nicolashenin.net · 7mo agoAprès l'expérience de Milgram, c'est la recherche ayant fondé le concept de dissonance cognitive qui est mise en cause pour défaut d'intégrité scientifique. Y aurait-il quelque chose de pourri au royaume de la psychosociologie ?
Just decline the peer review invitation. What are you people even doing?
More than half of researchers now use AI for peer review — often against guidance
A survey of 1,600 academics found that more than 50% have used artificial-intelligence tools while peer reviewing manuscripts.
nature.com
Another AI-fabricated book from Top Quality academic publisher Spring Nature.
Publisher under fire after ‘fake’ citations found in AI ethics guide
A book published by Springer Nature includes dozens of questionable citations, including references to journals that do not exist
thetimes.com
#Communiqué 🗞️ L'@academiesciences.bsky.social et le CNRS signent un accord de coédition pour développer un modèle de publication scientifique en libre accès et gratuit. ✍️ 👉 www.cnrs.fr/fr/presse/la...
