I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇
An inevitable development for for-profit Open Access publishers is Fordism: automation & massification.
If you earn money piece-rate for each paper you want to increase the flow of papers while minimizing cost.
e.g. very low and *uniform* turnaround times at Frontiers and MDPI
1. How common is LLM use in scientific publishing, and how does it vary across field, publisher, journal prestige, author demographics etc.? @kylesiler.bsky.social has new paper in PNAS that addresses this question on a massive scale: 7.3 million papers from Elsevier, PLOS, MDPI, and Frontiers.
Today PLOS publishes Redefining Publishing: Practical pathways to open science, the public report from our 18-month research and design project.
The report asks how publishing can better support open science.
Explore the report: plos.io/4o3bsun
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