That's #FrontiersMedia ladies and gents. The strain on scientific publishing is motivated by journal groups wanting to streamline the publishing of papers. Gold OA ties papers published to revenue. The more you can pump out, regardless of quality, the better.
#ResearchIntegrity #SciPub
Abstract. Scientists are increasingly overwhelmed by the volume of articles being published. The total number of articles indexed in Scopus and Web of Science has grown exponentially in recent years; ...
Over the last month I saw that human editors are now stripped of control. I could no longer stop the system from auto-inviting "reviewers" with zero relevant expertise. Even worse - the AI began actively revoking the invitations I manually sent out to actual, qualified experts.