Martin Shepperd

Greylisting open access publishers In December 2024, the Finnish Publication Forum (JUFO) announced with effect from January 2025 it was going to downgrade almost all Frontiers and MDPI journals to the lowest rating (0 on a 0-3 scal…

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On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we mourn the six million Jewish people and countless others who were murdered in the Holocaust by the forces of hate and bigotry.

Now more than ever, we cannot be silent in the face of evil. #NeverAgain

27.01.2025 19:33 — 👍 4242    🔁 839    💬 66    📌 23

Open discussion in our Discipline of Medical Science today on research integrity, paper corrections & retractions, staying on top of student data, getting the culture right. ~20 academics sharing thoughts & experiences, junior & senior. Some funny, some vulnerable. Positive collegiate Discipline 🧪

05.12.2024 02:36 — 👍 81    🔁 11    💬 2    📌 3

NEWS: Research paper on jetties hasn't been pier reviewed.

06.11.2024 20:40 — 👍 41    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0

If we don’t uphold minimal reviewing standards, what does that say about our commitment to quality and integrity in research?

Science deserves better.

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But if we can’t find the time to carefully review a manuscript, we should decline the request—or deliver a thorough review, but late.
Peer review is the backbone of science. A superficial review isn’t just unhelpful; it undermines the entire process.

02.12.2024 18:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Yet, neither the two authors, two reviewers, nor the guest associate editor noticed.
This highlights a worrying trend: reviewing without reading.

Yes, we’re all busy, and yes, the flood of papers feels relentless.

02.12.2024 18:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

As editor of a computer science journal, I recently encountered a troubling incident: a paper recommended for acceptance had untranslated Russian in four tables. This wasn’t subtle—it immediately stood out typographically without even needing to study the text.

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ChatGPT: Busy scholars in an Italian Renaissance style

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If you hate statistics like I do, then you'll love my free lectures. Putting science before statistics, 20 lectures from basics of inference & causal modeling to multilevel models & dynamic state space models. It's all free, made with love and sympathy. 🧪 #stats www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

19.09.2024 10:56 — 👍 821    🔁 225    💬 28    📌 26

Lecture capture pay-per-view

Lecture capture goes pay-per-view! Only 99p per lecture, or £19.99 a month.

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