Zehra Taşkın

University journal publishers – global, messy and underestimated - LSE Impact Despite being systematically underestimated university presses are a widespread and structurally significant part of the journal publishing landscape.

👀ICYMI: "We tend to picture publishing as something done by large commercial companies, big learned societies or a handful of famous university presses. But universities also publish at scale, across disciplines and in many languages."

@mikaellaakso.bsky.social @zehrataskin.bsky.social #ScholComms

Who gets to speak at global conferences? Rethinking equity in academic exchange Academic conferences are vital for knowledge exchange. But participation is greatly unequal due to material (eg financial) barriers - and epistemic hierarchies

Academic conferences are meant to be centred around a spirit of openness.

In reality, participation is shaped by deep structural inequalities, write @zehrataskin.bsky.social, Ivan Kislenko, Ayça Nur Sezen and @guledadogan.bsky.social on @lseinequalities.bsky.social

University journal publishers – global, messy and underestimated - LSE Impact Despite being systematically underestimated university presses are a widespread and structurally significant part of the journal publishing landscape.

💥New | University journal publishers – global, messy and underestimated

✍️ Maryna Nazarovets @mikaellaakso.bsky.social & @zehrataskin.bsky.social

#AcademicPublishing #UniversityPresses #AcademicSky

Who gets to speak at global conferences? Rethinking equity in academic exchange Academic conferences are vital for knowledge exchange. But participation is greatly unequal due to material (eg financial) barriers - and epistemic hierarchies

What are the material barriers that prevent some researchers from attending academic conferences? Do “epistemic hierarchies” further limit participation and the open exchange of ideas?

Zehra Taşkın, Ivan Kislenko, Ayça Nur Sezen & Güleda Doğan explore

#LSEInequalitiesBlog

Mapping the publisher types and collaborations behind Web of Science indexed journals Abstract. Although the organisational aspects of scholarly journals—such as the types of organisations responsible for publishing individual journals, whether independently or in collaboration—have si...

74.4% of the 21,886 WoS-indexed journals involve commercial professional publishers, 29% societies, and 27.8% research organisations as sole/co-publishers. Our paper co-authored with @zehrataskin.bsky.social, Emanuel Kulczycki & @mikaellaakso.bsky.social - now on QSS website: doi.org/10.1162/qss....

Akademik yarış, yayın baskısı ve şaibeli dergiler: Bir sistem sorgulaması - Sarkaç Akademide bilginin izini süren araştırmacı kimliği ile yalnızca yayın üretmeye odaklanan performansçı kimlik arasındaki sınırlar giderek bulanıklaşıyor.

Araştırma değerlendirme sistemlerinin yol açtığı yapısal sorunlar ve bilimsel bilginin üretiminde/dolaşımında süregelen merkez-çevre adaletsizlikleri ...

Zehra Taşkın'ın yazısı Sarkaç'ta. @zehrataskin.bsky.social

sarkac.org/2025/07/akad...

Happy to announce the soft launch of DoLS - the Directory of Learned Societies, an open, growing database of learned societies and their journals worldwide, facilitating visibility, networking, and community-building!

Explore #DoLS website: www.tsv.fi/en/services/...

This interesting new preprint on SocArXiv shows that "The landscape of academic journals is beyond the oligopoly: it is diverse and often grounded in public, academic-driven initiatives rather than market imperatives." osf.io/preprints/so...

"Our findings challenge the prevailing narrative that a few commercial publishers dominate global scholarly publishing. While prior analyses based on selective indexes reinforced the perception of an oligopoly [...], examining diverse national contexts reveals a more pluralistic reality."

📢 Our new study challenges the prevailing narrative that a few commercial publishers dominate global scholarly publishing! Read the preprint: Beyond the oligopoly: Scholarly journal publishing landscapes in Latin America and Europe. doi.org/10.31235/osf...

We keep talking about the problem of questionable publishing—but let’s not forget, the reason it exists is because there’s a market for it. As long as there are people willing to pay for shortcuts, someone will offer them.

I received two book chapter invitations on the same day. One gives a 5-day window from submission to publication. The other outlines a 2-year process with clear milestones: draft writing, reviews, revisions, and editing.
The difference speaks for itself.

Learned societies in the academic landscape: challenges in identifying and categorizing organizations - Scientometrics This study explores ways of identifying learned societies within the Research Organization Registry (ROR), a type of organization that so far lacks its own category within the registry. Despite their ...

Our paper "Learned societies in the academic landscape: challenges in identifying and categorizing organizations" was published today in Scientometrics: doi.org/10.1007/s111... Thank you Emanuel Kulczycki, @mikaellaakso.bsky.social and @zehrataskin.bsky.social for the great collaboration!

1001 projemizde bir yıl boyunca birlikte çalışmak üzere bir doktora sonrası araştırmacı ve bir doktora öğrencisi arıyoruz. Burs bedelleri TÜBİTAK tarafından belirlenen en üst limitlere göre belirlendi. Elden ele yayarsanız, tanıdıklara iletirseniz seviniriz.

We are continuing our series of internal seminars on Bernal's "Social Function of Science". It is an inspiring and strongly multidisciplinary approach to science. Simultaneous study of economics, politics and science is practised in many research in our Group

Arkadaşlar, takipleşmeyi bırakıp bir şeyler yazsanız burası daha ilginç bir yer olabilir.

Blog yazdım. Başka türlü bir şey oldu. İki öksürük krizi arasında. Gelişine.

Başka türlü bir şey: www.zehrataskin.com/index.php/20...

Twitlerimizi escort hesapları, skitlerimizi mavigökler trend topic hesapları beğeniyor en ilk.

Bir geri takip uğruna ya rab, ne hızlı etkileşimler veriliyor.

Yapman guzum.

Blog yazdım. Başka türlü bir şey oldu. İki öksürük krizi arasında. Gelişine.

Başka türlü bir şey: www.zehrataskin.com/index.php/20...

Haha bence de. Artık internet ortamında dil engeli olmaması çok hoş.

If the local developments in my country lead to frequent posts, feel free to unfollow.
For academic updates, I’ll stick to LinkedIn :=)

I joined Bluesky 2 years ago to share my works with international colleagues. I used to post in Turkish on Twitter, mainly about politics and current events.
But after Elon Musk’s interventions, I’ve decided to leave X. So, I’ll now be posting in both English and Turkish here +

Our Group is on Bluesky now!

Interested in research on: scholarly communication, higher education, bibliometrics or geopolitics of science? Follow us!

Some scholars from SCRG are already here (@kszadkowski.bsky.social @zehrataskin.bsky.social @franekkra.bsky.social )

Our website: sc.amu.edu.pl

@zehrataskin.bsky.social hocadan:
"“Akademisyenlik iş değildir. Bir tutkudur.” Bu tutku sebebiyle sizden beklenenlerse insanüstü bir özveriyle, ağır iş yükünden şikayet etmeden, düşük maaşla ve güvencesiz pozisyonlarda çalışmaya devam etmenizdir."
www.zehrataskin.com/index.php/20...

Published version available: asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

74% of 21,886 WoS-indexed journals involve professional publishers, 29% learned societies, and 28% research organisations as publishers or collaborators. Check out our new preprint co-authored with @zehrataskin.bsky.social, Emanuel Kulczycki and @mikaellaakso.bsky.social: doi.org/10.31235/osf...

It's raining preprints, hallelujah 🎶

Here is my latest preprint (review article) >> Sustaining the ‘frozen footprints’ of scholarly communication through open citations

osf.io/preprints/so...

Note: the academic community was paying billions to publishers before OA existed. OA models make these costs more apparent, but don't make publishing cheaper. Diamond OA might, let's see!

[Nb2: figs here are overestimates. Can't account for waivers, discounts, or transformational-agreements].