"The staff of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the journal that reports on health trends and emerging infectious threats, was also laid off. The publication’s storied history includes a June 1981 report that five previously healthy gay men were treated for an unusual pneumonia — the first hint of the AIDS epidemic."

MMWR has been an important public health publication for decades.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/us/politics/trump-administration-cdc-layoffs.html

[Edit: this was a cock-up. 🤦
"workers who produce Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report may have mistakenly received reduction-in-force notices because of coding errors in their job classifications." https://www.statnews.com/2025/10/11/cdc-morbidity-and-mortality-weekly-report-staff-fired/]

#CentersForDiseaseControlAndPrevention #MMWR #MorbidityAndMortalityWeeklyReport #USpolitics #JournalPublishing #ScholComm #MedicalJournals

Wake up, babe, new COPE guidelines just dropped!

Version 3 of the Retraction guidelines and brand new Expression of Concern guidelines are out now. I co-authored the long-awaited EoC guidelines and v.2 of the Retraction guidelines.

https://publicationethics.org/guidance/guideline/expressions-concern
https://publicationethics.org/guidance/guideline/retraction-guidelines

#CommitteeOnPublicationEthics #Retractions #ExpressionsOfConcern #PublicationEthics #JournalPublishing #JournalEditing #ScholComm

(Some) things are looking up

#Hope #OpenAccess #JournalPublishing #Dysfunction #AcademicLibraries #Encouragement #PhysicalHealth

https://theowfactor.org/2025/07/20/some-things-are-looking-up/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

Damian Pattinson of @eLife (and my former boss at PLOS ONE) at The Royal Society's Future of Scientific Publishing conference describes the devastating effect on their submissions of Clarivate removing their Impact Factor due to their change in peer review model, then asks why other journals, including Science, don't renounce their own IFs.

#SciComm #JournalPublishing #ImpactFactor #Clarivate #WebOfScience #PeerReview #TheRoyalSociety #FutureOfScientificPublishing #Citations #Bibliometrics #ResearchImpact #ResearchAssessment