Simon Linacre

FROM FEAR TO FRAMEWORKS: Simon Linacre explores how business schools are reacting to the rise of AI in management education: some with worry, others with innovation. #AOM2025 #AI #BusinessEducation

The Source / The Evolution Starts Now: insights from the AOM annual meeting You say you want a RevolutionWell, you knowWe all wanna change the world Revolution 1, The Beatles Attending the Academy of Management conference this week in Copenhagen was disorienting in so many…

It was odd returning to the @aomconnect.bsky.social annual meeting after so many years, but fascinating to be a speaker for the first time. Here are my thoughts on what happened... more to come next week!

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#AOM2025 #scholcomm #research #management @cabells.com

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Very happy to be in Copenhagen today attending #AOM2025 - after attending this event as a vendor, I'm now here as a presenter after co-authoring a paper on social impact and business school research

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#research #scholcomm @cabells.com

Thanks to @qscorporate.bsky.social for giving @claudiacivinini.bsky.social space to publish the 2nd part of her deep dive into publishing problems, and for including my thoughts on AI's impact on #scholcomm for @cabells.com

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#AI #research #publishing

Looking to make that next step in publishing? Effective Journals Publishing run by @alpsp.bsky.social covers advanced aspects of scholarly publishing.

For more details or to book a place for October, see here: alpsp.cventevents.com/event/6e3048...

#training #scholcomm #journals #publishing

How to know if journals are predatory or credible Cabells Publishing, a scholarly analytics company, has flagged more than 19,000 journals as potentially predatory. CBS News medical contributor Dr. Celine Gounder explains how to know if you're gettin...

How to vet scientific research via @cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy www.cbsnews.com/video/how-to... - many thanks to everyone at CBS Morning News for highlighting this issue for researchers

#predatoryjournals #scholcomm #publishing #researchintegrity

We're hiring! We are looking for a Head of Commercial Partnerships at @cabells.com - full details on the @alpsp.bsky.social Jobs Board

#scholcomm #recruitment #jobs

Opinion: 'The first anniversary of Labour’s victory has been marked by a self-inflicted shambles which has shredded the authority of both the prime minister and his chancellor,' writes Robert Shrimsley. https://on.ft.com/4nvBJRf

Cloudflare Is Blocking AI Crawlers by Default The age of the AI scraping free-for-all may be coming to an end. At least if Cloudflare gets its way.

Given the rampant abuse of content provider's bandwidth by AI scrapers and the flagrant ignoring of more polite measures like robots.txt, it's not surprising providers are turning to Cloudflare for help: www.wired.com/story/cloudf... (via the on-the-ball @knibbs.bsky.social )

The Zombie Scientific Archive - QS Insights Magazine 30 How AI-generated content and misinformation are corrupting online academic resources, creating a "zombie" internet where errors and fake science perpetuate.

It was great to speak to @claudiacivinini.bsky.social and @qscorporate.bsky.social for @cabells.com about predatory journals and the worrying trend of zombie publications. Watch out for Part Two coming soon!

#predatoryjournals #scholcomm #researchintegrity

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Science's Quality-Control Process Gets a Makeover Data underlying science’s quality control process is revealing worrying trends — and suggestions are pouring in on how to address the concerns.

More on reviewer fatigue:

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#Metascience2025

The Source / Five-Point Plan Incredibly, it has been over five years since we started The Source, our regular offering of insight and intel on the worlds of research integrity and academic publishing. But do the original posts…

Plus ca change... top five tips on using @cabells.com Predatory Reports five years on blog.cabells.com/2025/06/25/f...

#predatoryjournals #researchintegrity

Two websites, one journal. The Journal of Informetrics has been hijacked. This is not just any journal, it's a well-known title published by Elsevier.
More journals from reputable publishers are being hijacked since recently.
Guess which screenshot belongs to the original journal?
HT: Paul Donner

The Zombie Scientific Archive - QS Insights Magazine 30 The conference in London saw intertwining discussions on mutually beneficial partnerships, Indian alumni perspectives' on UK, and how to solve societal challenges.

There are multiple threats to academic research and publishing currently, so I was very happy to contribute to this piece on behalf of @cabells.com from @qscorporate.bsky.social on research and publishing integrity magazine.qs.com/qs-insights-...

#research #scholcomm #integrity

It was wonderful to meet the #RRBM Dare to Care Dissertation Scholarship Awards winners at this year’s Responsible Research Summit in NYC! Cabells is proud to lend our support to RRBM in its vital mission to “inspire and encourage” socially impactful #business and #management #education.

My take for @cabells.com on #RMEWeek and how research is engaging with the #SDGs as the clock ticks toward 2030

#research #sustainability #scholcomm

Being a victim of a predatory journal buff.ly/ogdxmE1

The case highlighted in @thelancet.com not only shows the human impact of predatory publishing behaviours, but the nefarious tactics used to exploit researchers

Mike Bisaccio, our Director of Marketing & Communications at Cabells, is attending #RMEWeek at the Cornell SC Johnson College of #Business in New York, NY. Stay tuned for updates and a series of posts detailing what RME Week is all about!

Please to support the @scholarlypub.bsky.social Virtual 5K this weekend with a gentle run with the dog (although it was on Friday because of the weather forecast!) #SSP5K

Cabells' Marketing & Communications Director, Mike Bisaccio, will be attending two conferences in New York next week in support of RME Week: the 2025 #PRME Global Forum and #RRBM's Responsible #Research Summit, hosted by @scjohnsoncollege.bsky.social‬! #Business

ALPSP Training Survey 2025

The @alpsp.bsky.social do a great job arranging training programmes for all those in publishing. To help them maintain their high standards, please fill in their new training survey at the link below (open until 16th June):

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#scholcomm #publishing #training

Diabolus Ex Machina This Is Not An Essay

Possibly the best thing I've read about ChatGPT yet.

h/t @melaniemitchell.bsky.social

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Simon Linacre's latest blog takes a look at TVO Today's 'Big [If True]' and their examination of predatory publishing with Jeffrey Beall and Timothy Caulfield.

https://blog.cabells.com/2025/05/28/illusions-of-grandeur/

We wish you all a safe Memorial Day!

Spend time in Japan you'll see why rice is such a big deal - any land that is not a forest or built up is a rice field, with many families owning their own paddies. Like fishing in the UK, the small economic impact these industries have nationally is dwarfed by its cultural and historic significance

'Predatory' Academic Journals Undermines Research and Public Trust in Scholarship The bar for publishing in a scholarly journal is often high. Independent experts diligently review and comment on submitted research.

‘Predatory’ Academic Journals Undermines Research and Public Trust in Scholarship brewminate.com/predatory-ac...

Our metrics are freely available at Cabells.com so people can judge if our checking of journals is valid. All journals are reviewed individually/objectively against these. We don’t see the value in subjective judgements from anonymous sources (or unsubstantiated allegations @predatoryjournals.org)

When Oxbridge Doesn’t Mean Oxbridge For well over a century, the term ‘Oxbridge’ has been a useful abbreviation to indicate the two most prestigious universities in the UK. It has stood for the highest caliber of research, the brightest minds and absolute academic freedom. To be associated with Oxbridge is to have links with the very best that higher education can offer. Not anymore. Thanks to a number of articles in…

New blog on The Source from Simon Linacre: When Oxbridge Doesn't Mean Oxbridge