Pedro J. Hdez<p>Frontiers is doing an immense job of publishing articles that are very understandable to almost anyone. Other publications should take note. </p><p>In this case, you can read the introduction and discussion and get much better information than from any press release about the study.</p><p><a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/environmental-science/articles/10.3389/fenvs.2025.1563488/full" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">frontiersin.org/journals/envir</span><span class="invisible">onmental-science/articles/10.3389/fenvs.2025.1563488/full</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Frontiers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Frontiers</span></a> also have a publication for young minds that includes several articles on <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/microplastics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>microplastics</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://kids.frontiersin.org/articles?phrase=microplastics" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">kids.frontiersin.org/articles?</span><span class="invisible">phrase=microplastics</span></a></p>
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Samuel Alizon<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@SciMag" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>SciMag</span></a></span> is alarmed that low quality articles are flawing <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/SystematicReviews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SystematicReviews</span></a>.</p><p>One solution is to only include studies that are in <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/opendata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>opendata</span></a>. </p><p>Another is to ignore <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/predatory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>predatory</span></a> and journals in the "gray zone" (e.g. all <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/MDPI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MDPI</span></a>, <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Frontiers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Frontiers</span></a>, <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/ScientificReports" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScientificReports</span></a>, etc.) as we already do in evaluation committees.</p><p><a href="https://www.science.org/content/article/systematic-reviews-aim-extract-broad-conclusions-many-studies-are-peril" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">science.org/content/article/sy</span><span class="invisible">stematic-reviews-aim-extract-broad-conclusions-many-studies-are-peril</span></a></p>
Ludo Waltman<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fediscience.org/@MarkHanson" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>MarkHanson</span></a></span></p><p>It's disappointing to see the way <a href="https://social.cwts.nl/tags/Frontiers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Frontiers</span></a> responded to your work. Unfortunately, the author of the Frontiers response is known for responding aggressively to criticism, or perceived criticism, of his company. This also happened in an earlier case: <a href="https://retractionwatch.com/2022/12/05/board-members-decry-their-own-journals-retraction-of-paper-on-predatory-publishers/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">retractionwatch.com/2022/12/05</span><span class="invisible">/board-members-decry-their-own-journals-retraction-of-paper-on-predatory-publishers/</span></a> (see the letter written by Frontiers).</p>
MAHanson<p>We were surprised by a recent <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Frontiers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Frontiers</span></a> blog. They make derogatory statements, accuse us of data manipulation & mischaracterize our comms with them. 😔</p><p>Critiques of our work are welcome. Falsehoods about us and our work are not. Here we set the record straight.<br><a href="https://the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/posts/response_to_frontiers/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">the-strain-on-scientific-publi</span><span class="invisible">shing.github.io/website/posts/response_to_frontiers/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/SciPub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SciPub</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAccess</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/PeerReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PeerReview</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/ScientificPublishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScientificPublishing</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/AcademicChatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicChatter</span></a> 1/n</p>
Dorothy Bishop<p>Remember that paper on Strain on Scientific Publishing, which showed that some publishers are encouraging an exponential growth in publications via special issues? Well it seems to have touched a nerve with Frontiers, who are now trying to diss the authors.<br>Not a wise move, I think. Authors response is here <a href="https://the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/posts/response_to_frontiers/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">the-strain-on-scientific-publi</span><span class="invisible">shing.github.io/website/posts/response_to_frontiers/</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/publishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>publishing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Frontiers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Frontiers</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/papermills" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>papermills</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a></p>
JulietJFall<p>1970s TV archive on the Swiss border and border guards in Geneva, and on how rivers and bodies of water were used to help trace the borderline (weren't TV programmes slow paced back then? Rather refreshing!): <a href="https://www.rts.ch/archives/tv/information/la-suisse-est-belle/11280287-geneve-frontiere-deau.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">rts.ch/archives/tv/information</span><span class="invisible">/la-suisse-est-belle/11280287-geneve-frontiere-deau.html</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/geography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>geography</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/borders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>borders</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/frontiers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>frontiers</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/visualArchive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>visualArchive</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/visualMethods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>visualMethods</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Gen%C3%A8ve" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Genève</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/douaniers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>douaniers</span></a></p>
Thomas<p>Good thread. RT @MarkHanson: The strain on scientific publishing 📄:</p><p>The publishing sector has a problem. Scientists are overwhelmed, editors are overworked, special issue invitations are constant, research paper mills, article retractions, journal delistings… JUST WHAT IS GOING ON!?</p><p>I, pablo, @paolocrosetto and Dan spent months investigating that.<br /><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.15884" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">arxiv.org/abs/2309.15884</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>A thread🧵1/n</p><p><a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/AcademicChatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AcademicChatter</span></a> <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/PublishOrPerish" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PublishOrPerish</span></a> <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/Elsevier" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Elsevier</span></a> <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/Springer" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Springer</span></a> <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/MDPI" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MDPI</span></a> <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/Wiley" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Wiley</span></a> <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/Frontiers" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Frontiers</span></a> <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/PhDAdvice" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PhDAdvice</span></a> <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/PhDChat" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PhDChat</span></a> <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/SciComm" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SciComm</span></a></p>
MAHanson<p>But it’s not just <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/MDPI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MDPI</span></a>: <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Frontiers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Frontiers</span></a> and <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Hindawi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hindawi</span></a> also grew their share of special issues. One might argue: “These are just labels publishers use. The peer review process is the same.”</p><p>Au contraire mon ami : no it’s not. Special issues have lower TATs. They’re intended to be lax. They’re for authors to voice ideas that could turn out to be wrong, but advance the conversation in the field. That’s what they used to be at least… and what made them “special.” But I digress… 7/n</p>
MAHanson<p>We see that certain groups are major drivers of this article growth, in some cases seemingly out of nothingness. This includes your classic publishers like <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Elsevier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Elsevier</span></a> and <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Springer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Springer</span></a>, but also the upstarts <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Frontiers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Frontiers</span></a> and… most significantly <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/MDPI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MDPI</span></a>.</p><p>In numbers, there were nearly 1 million more articles per year published in 2022 (2.8m) compared to 2016 (1.9m). MDPI takes the lion’s share at 27% of that growth, with Elsevier (16%) a distant 2nd.</p><p>How did we get to this point? 3/n</p>
MAHanson<p>The strain on scientific publishing 📄:</p><p>The publishing sector has a problem. Scientists are overwhelmed, editors are overworked, special issue invitations are constant, research paper mills, article retractions, journal delistings… JUST WHAT IS GOING ON!?</p><p>Myself, pablo, <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://econtwitter.net/@paolocrosetto" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>paolocrosetto</span></a></span> and Dan have spent the last few months investigating just that.<br><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.15884" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">arxiv.org/abs/2309.15884</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>A thread🧵1/n</p><p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/AcademicChatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicChatter</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/PublishOrPerish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PublishOrPerish</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Elsevier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Elsevier</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Springer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Springer</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/MDPI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MDPI</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Wiley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wiley</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Frontiers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Frontiers</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/PhDAdvice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PhDAdvice</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/PhDChat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PhDChat</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/SciComm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SciComm</span></a></p>
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