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.
Tag: academic writing
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…
Here is a new (for me) reason why the peer review process is flawed. Contains a cool simulation
Journalologists, AI, Brexit literature, and right-wing terrorism: four links I liked
Brexit is depressing, but the the #LiteraryBrexit tag on twitter is hilariousThere are scientists who use the scientific method to study how science journals work. And their work is actually relevant.Interesting, yet depressing reading: a fact-file on right-wing terrorism in GermanyToday’s AI is not intelligent. Thought so
This is what is wrong with the peer review system (single picture edition)
Received September 5, online first June 5, and at least six more months until the piece is assigned to an issue and is paginated. A neat illustration of (some of) the problems with the current system. And no, I don’t have an easy solution.