Zombie Scientists
There are zombie papers, those are the long-discredited or even misconduct-riddled publications, which somehow avoid retractions and continue contaminating scientificContinue Reading
Science journalism by Leonid Schneider, on research integrity and academic publishing in life sciences and biomedicine
There are zombie papers, those are the long-discredited or even misconduct-riddled publications, which somehow avoid retractions and continue contaminating scientificContinue Reading
Two seemingly opposing medical editorials on the subject of data sharing have recently been published. One, by the International CommitteeContinue Reading
The Euromaidan revolution of winter 2013/2014 in Ukrainian capital Kiev toppled the Moscow-friendly president and quickly led to an establishmentContinue Reading
A small, highly specialized medical journal makes its first attempt at satire in 21 years. The New Year’s Eve spoof paperContinue Reading
The Swiss academic publisher Frontiers, owned by the EPFL professor Henry Markram and his wife Kamila (plus some investors, includingContinue Reading
Richard Poynder, British independent journalist and open access (OA) activist of many years, has reported on December 17th 2015 about the recent Berlin12Continue Reading
A journal of the Nature Publishing group (NPG) has recently announced “Transparent peer review at Nature Communications”. Transparent peer reviewContinue Reading
In this follow-up to my previous article, I will describe two cases of how the editorial and peer review weaknesses at a FrontiersContinue Reading
This is my currently final (two-part) instalment on the topic of Frontiers listing by Jeffrey Beall as a potential, possibleContinue Reading
What we often perceive as independent quality certificates of publishing ethics are sometimes apparently nothing more than a fig leaf. This isContinue Reading