On stealth corrections to the academic record.
That is, changes made by the publisher after publication, with no notice given.
Guess what? MDPI are caught moving articles out of special issues post.
Read more in this blog...
https://deevybee.blogspot.com/2026/02/guest-post-stealth-corrections-are.html
The UK’s new child safety laws got me thinking: how do we reach young readers without relying on systems that weren’t built for their safety—or ours? I wrote about that tension here:
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https://mountainthermit.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-cost-of-connection-reaching-young.html
Let’s imagine better tools.
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🌻 New #ScholarlyKitchen Blog Post: Challenges in Academic Publishing Amid War: ISSN Issues in Ukraine 🇺🇦 Threaten Research Integrity
The piece explores the ongoing violations of the rights of Ukrainian academic journals and authors since 2014, including violation of intellectual property rights and publication ethics.
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Recently, a group of Ukrainian researchers uncovered serious violations in the use of ISSN identifiers by journals operating in temporarily occupied territories, revealing systematic misuse of academic infrastructure and promoting narratives hostile to Ukraine.
🎥 Missed it live? Catch the final ABL roundtable of this year on replay! 🌍
🗨️Academic publishing is the backbone of science dissemination – but is the current system fit for purpose?
Prof. Yap Boum II & Dr. Cristiana R. Lages tackle:
📖 Decolonising publishing
✍️ Publishing Middle East & African research in leading journals
A must-watch for academics everywhere!
▶️ Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ppy2TEfSrqE
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Explore Author Identity & Name Changes in Scholarly Publications with Tilla Edmunds (Clarivate), Bri Watson (Univ of British Columbia), and Julie Zhu (IEEE) at next month's #NISOPlus24 Global/Online conference! Check out this and other sessions in our event program: https://sched.co/1eNCk
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#medlibs @medlibs scroll up and read the linked paper - we should be more aware of both the data sources/research method and of the issues of ghostwriting and, IDK how to call it - like astroturfinganipulates the public debate, except the scholarly debate
May be hard to believe it, but email the other day has been worse.
I know that editors sometimes do shitty things. I know that referees sometimes write things that are pretty inappropriate. And I know rejections, whatever the reason behind them, sting an awful lot.
But for the love Zeus, let's not pretend that any of this justifies behaving like a twit.
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Apparently, when some scientific journals publish an Expression of Concern on an article, they don't display it on the article itself. So, readers have no way of knowing an EoC exists, which rather defeats the purpose.
Refuse to review for or submit to journals that do this, & tell them why.
#ScientificIntegrity #PublishingEthics #AcademicJournals #publishing
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