Excellent interview by Katrin Schmermund with Anna Abalkina, published in Forschung&Lehre (Open Access, unfortunately only in German language) on Abalkina's research on paper mills. You can follow Abalkina on Bluesky, https://bsky.app/profile/abalkina.bsky.social.

The scale of academic misconduct is amazing, and to a certain degree it is now powered by AI. One almost unchallenged aspect of the problem is fake research data.

#papermills #researchdata #academicmisconduct #publishingreform
https://www.forschung-und-lehre.de/forschung/wir-brauchen-eine-gemeinsame-kraftanstrengung-7218

A thread.

I find it useful to "deconstruct" academic publishing into three distinct actions which have got mixed up in the current model of the "article" in a "peer-reviewed journal". This model is a historical anomaly, it does none of the three things well, and we have better solutions available.

#OpenAccess #PublishingReform

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I agree with the robust views reported in this article - just a bit surprised that a Nature journal agreed to publish it! Yes to preprints, yes to discovery, yes to reform of peer review, yes to diversity and decolonisation!

#OpenScience #PublishingReform

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-023-01637-2