Peer review: a drama in 3 lines
When even so-so- journals reject promising manuscripts if even one reviewer doesn’t like them, the system is broken. That’s the long and the short of it.
Tag: academic writing
Predatory publishing plumbing new lows
Hey look, I have unlocked a new level of predatory publishing fraud: someone out there is automating so aggressively that they are not just misspelling the title of my article and inventing an affiliation for me: they literally can’t be arsed to spell out my name. Of course, there is no one at King’s with…
Yet another bizarre request from a predatory publisher
Here is another gem from today’s mailbag. They are just taking the piss now.
Academic Déjà vu, or Academic Dementia?
I get a lot of academic spam However, the missive that arrived yesterday looked like the real deal, then made me question my sanity.
In a land before DOIs
There are so many systems that are supposed to document our outputs, talking to each other all the time.
A high-quality cloned journal has duped hundreds of scholars, and has no reason to stop
I lead a very sheltered life: before reading this post, I had never suspected that it is possible to hijack an academic journal.
Get off my lawn! Are journal demands for “novelty” creating a culture of low-level academic dishonesty?
This article on the Duck by Dan Nexon, about rather unfortunate consequences of the publish/perish incentives,makes some very good points
Is MDPI a predatory publisher?
This, from 2021, is still interesting
Reviewer #3 is reviewer #2
Sometimes, reviewer 3 turns out to be reviewer 2. But at least it’s unintentionally funny.
In a land before time: offprints
Because there is a pandemic, we are improving the home. Because I’ve spent a year in the so-called office (i.e. the box room), the box room office is in particular need of improvement. Because it’s my box room office, it needs an especially good clean-out before there is any possibility of improvement. That’s why I’m…