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February 21, 2023, #30 On 13 February 2023 Amber Dance wrote an article in Nature called: “Stop the peer-review treadmill. I want to get...

February 14, 2023, #29 On 7 February 2023 Jonathan Bailey wrote an entertaining article called Falsifying Attribution for a Bad Pun. The...

February 1, 2023, #28 On 19 January 2023 the “Scholarly Kitchen” hosted a discussion about “The Dea(r)th of Social Media? Assessing...

January 24, 2023, #27 ChatGPT has made headlines in the press, but as yet the number of papers offering a systematic analysis of its...

January 17, 2023, #26 Mike Rossner wrote a recent guest post for Scholarly Kitchen about why “Publishers Should Be Transparent About the...

January 10, 2023, #25 Many universities and many countries use Journal Impact Factors (JIFs) when assessing the quality of publications...

December 13, 2022, #24 Olavo B. Amaral wrote in Nature on 23 November 2022 that peer review could be fixed by breaking it into stages:...

“Open access movements” have advanced worldwide for more than a decade. These include open data, open government, open science, and open publishing. Open Access movements have received wide recognition from countries seeking to promote transparency, accountability, and collaboration for the common good. The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic effectively strengthened the public’s demand for sharing research and government data because of all the benefits citizens expect from op