"We published in Nature Medicine in 2025 for free. In 2026, it cost us $12,850."
https://www.statnews.com/2026/06/11/open-access-journal-fees-nature-wiley-elsevier-nih/
(#paywalled)

There's a lot going on in this confused and confusing article.

* The author and her co-authors were foolish to pay $12,850 for a Nature Medicine APC. They could have published the same article for a lower fee, or no fee, at many other respected journals. They didn't pay for quality. They paid for journal branding or prestige.

* The author says her team paid for the APC "to comply" with the NIH policy. Untrue. Complying with the NIH policy is free of charge. They paid the APC to publish in Nature Medicine.

* The author says that APCs "pose barriers to making NIH-funded research available to the public." Untrue. NIH makes funded research available to the public through #PubMedCentral (#GreenOA) no matter where the author chooses to publish and no matter whether the author chooses to pay an APC.

#FunderPolicies #Funders #NIH #OpenAccess #ScholComm

Paul Litvak wrote a thoughtful piece on the limitations of the scientific journal article and the advantages of a proposed new genre or structure.
https://www.paullitvak.com/p/the-future-of-academic-journals

The new structure he describes is similar to one I proposed in 2012: one that would disaggregate claims and connect each one to the current evidence. See my 2012 essay, "The idea of an open-access evidence rack."
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:32988193

One difference is that his would use #AI. Mine would use #crowdsourcing. But his could also use crowdsourcing and mine could also use AI.

Another is that his seems meant to stand alone. Mine is meant to be a dynamic collection of "perpetually updated, public footnotes" that might stand alone or might be cited, as footnotes, by articles, books, and any other new genres that might come along.

#Genres #ScholComm

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#OpenJournalSystems #OpenAccess #DiamondOpenAccess #ScholComm #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicChatter #Metadata #DOIs #JournalManagers #JournalEditors #ojsSystemAdmins

Today I’m at the BRIC conference in #Edmonton https://bric-conference.ca/.

I heard a question about Twitter and altmetrics. What could we do to capture altmetrics in the #fediverse? I didn’t have an answer.

Is there an answer? @evan

#scholcomm #altmetrics #bibliometrics

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#OpenJournalSystems #OpenAccess #DiamondOpenAccess #ScholComm #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicChatter #Metadata #DOIs #JournalManagers #JournalEditors #ojsSystemAdmins

Kaitlin Thaney (@kaythaney) makes a strong argument that "the true cost of open infrastructure is systematically underestimated across the [research] sector. We can count grants. We can count memberships. We can't easily count the labor that quietly underwrites a lot of what makes these systems functional."

#OpenInfrastructure #ScholComm

Another reason to distrust journal-based citation metrics:

"Suspected #papermill articles…cited – and were cited by – other suspected paper mill articles and appeared in journals previously reported as paper mill targets. The resulting citations from suspected paper mill articles measurably inflated journal citation metrics."
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.25.727627v1

#Citations #JIF #ScholComm

Have you ever provided informed consent for a case report about how you died?

https://retractionwatch.com/2026/02/09/journal-tags-impossible-case-report-with-short-erratum/

#ScholComm #MedMastodon #medicine