(11 May 2026) While Elsevier outcompetes other publishers in terms of sheer volume, it also has the lowest retraction rate and highest rate of reinstating articles among nine top publishers of scholarly articles, a recent study has found. The study also found a tenth publisher to be an outlier in terms of reasons for retraction. “Every publisher…
(6 May 2026) The Forensic Scientometrics (FoSci) movement has published its first report, bringing together leading experts from across the research investigative community to document, scrutinise and address a critical issue: the manipulation of global research. The FoSci Report 2026: Understanding, Detecting, and Documenting Manipulation in the Research Ecosystem, has been launched at this week’s 9th World…
(12 Feb 2026) The World Journal Clout Index (WJCI), short for World Journal Influence Index of Scientific and Technological Periodicals, represents a comprehensive evaluation system designed to measure the global impact of sci-tech journals beyond traditional metrics. Developed and released annually by the China Association for Science and Technology (CAST), the WJCI addresses limitations in…
(5 Feb 2026) In debates around scholarly publishing university publishers are often a secondary consideration after big commercial publishers. Drawing on a new study of the size and scope of university publishing Maryna Nazarovets, Mikael Laakso and Zehra Taşkın argue universities are in fact not marginal actors but a widespread and structurally significant part of the journal publishing landscape, whose…
(27 Jan 2026) Over the past decade, Hindawi expanded rapidly from a small open access (OA) publisher into a large, multi-journal operation publishing tens of thousands of articles annually. This period of growth coincided with an increase in submissions later linked to paper mills. By 2023–2024, public reporting documented that more than 8,000 articles across a…
(29 Jan 2026) The Open Journals Collective (OJC) has announced the launch of its official investment campaign, inviting libraries to back a sustainable, community-led alternative to commercial scholarly publishing models. Positioned as a scalable response to commercial “big deals” and so-called “transformative agreements”, OJC offers libraries a single mechanism to support a broad range of diamond open-access…
(22 Sept 2025) Publishers often provide guidelines for authors to transparently declare any human assistance in manuscript preparation (for example, professional language editing services). However, recent developments in AI – particularly generative AI – have led to rapid expansion in the capabilities of machine tools to assist with writing, editing, and even enhancing research manuscripts…
(8 Oct 2025) Two major publishers have begun to automatically reject the vast majority of papers based on public health data sets, following revelations that unscrupulous actors use these data sets to churn out nonsense scientific papers. Last month, PLOS and Frontiers both announced submissions that use data sets such as the U.S. Centers for Disease…
(8 Oct 2025) EBSCO Information Services has released the 2026 Serials Price Projection Report, providing essential insights into the financial landscape for scholarly publications. Designed to support libraries and publishers during the renewal season, the report forecasts average publisher price increases in the range of three and a half to five and a half percent, before…
(23 Sept 2025) If you wanted to get a paper published in Science from 2015 to 2020, your odds were 70% lower if you were in China than in the United States. But being at an elite institution anywhere in the world may have given you an edge. Those are two findings from a rare study of internal…