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The strain on scientific publishing 📄:

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!?

Myself, pablo, @paolocrosetto and Dan have spent the last few months investigating just that.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.15884

A thread🧵1/n

#AcademicChatter #PublishOrPerish #Elsevier #Springer #MDPI #Wiley #Frontiers #PhDAdvice #PhDChat #SciComm

The strain on scientific publishing

Scientists are increasingly overwhelmed by the volume of articles being published. Total articles indexed in Scopus and Web of Science have grown exponentially in recent years; in 2022 the article total was 47% higher than in 2016, which has outpaced…
arXiv.org
#SciComm #academicchatter #elsevier #phdchat #phdadvice #frontiers #wiley #MDPI #Springer #publishorperish @paolocrosetto

In case folks aren't aware, the Internet Archive now has a scholar version with a huge collection of academic work available.

https://scholar.archive.org/

#academicchatter #academicmastodon #academic #education #open

A screenshot of the Internet Archive Scholar search engine interface
#education #open #academic #academicchatter #academicmastodon

#AcademicChatter #PhD #STEM #Science @academicchatter @academicsunite

Hey guys, I am sitting on the #PeerTube (#Federated #YouTube) domain peertube.science - I want to gauge how much of an interest in this for me to set up. Is there anyone interested in a non commercial video service like this for the sciences? Humanities are welcome too. 😀
#peertube #youtube #science #federated #STEM #academicchatter #phd @AcademicChatter group @AcademicsUnite group

Brief #Introduction, since it seems to be the etiquette around here. Hi! I'm Mel, a PGR at QMUL researching abortion policy implementation in subnational Argentina, through lenses of various geographies, #policy and subnational studies, and literature on #feminist #activism. Expect toots both in #Spanish and #English. Alongside #academicchatter, expect pictures and commentary on #popculture, #cats, #nature and #food, as needed.
#cats #nature #English #introduction #food #policy #Spanish #feminist #PopCulture #activism #academicchatter

Citations in scientific presentations should be readable and easy to follow for the audience even at the back of the room.

I wrote the tiny #rstats package {namedropR} to make this easy to achieve for speakers.

A quick 'How to' is in the thread below.

#scicomm #academia #academicchatter
The logo of the R package "namedropR": a hexagonal icon with dark backgroundand an orane frame. In the center there is the package name, next to a QR code, which encodes the package name. Next to the logo there is a call to action: reference your literature with style.
#rstats #academia #SciComm #academicchatter

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