Showing posts with label peer review. Show all posts
Showing posts with label peer review. Show all posts
Sunday, 16 August 2026

Acceleration of the arms race between fraudsters and honest researchers

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I was recently asked to review a paper that piqued my curiosity. From the abstract it sounded as if it was a secondary analysis of a datas...
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Monday, 21 July 2025

Trouble at t' (review) mill: How MDPI lets down authors

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 I guess many readers will have had peer reviews where the reviewer doesn't appear to have understood, or even properly read, the paper ...
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Saturday, 18 January 2025

Tomatoes roaming the fields and canaries in the coalmine: another embarrassing paper for MDPI

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  Many publishers are getting nervous about infiltration by paper mills, who can torpedo a journal's reputation when they succeed in pu...
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Wednesday, 1 January 2025

Retrospective look at blog highlights of 2024: What happened next?

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It's always interesting for a blogger to look back to see which posts have garnered most attention. In 2024 there were three standout ...
Monday, 23 December 2024

Finland vs. Germany: the case of MDPI

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It's been an odd week for the academic publisher MDPI. On 16th December, Finland's Publication Forum (known as JUFO) announced tha...
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Sunday, 27 October 2024

I don't care about journal impact factors but I do care about visibility

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There's been a fair bit of discussion about Clarivate's decision to pause inclusion of eLife publications on the Science Citation In...
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Saturday, 14 September 2024

Prodding the behemoth with a stick

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  Like many academics, I was interested to see an announcement on social media that a US legal firm had filed a federal an...
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Thursday, 8 August 2024

My experience as a reviewer for MDPI

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  Guest post by  René Aquarius, PhD Department of Neurosurgery Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Ne...
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