I have the rare privilege of a job with very flexible working conditions, and I always loved working from home. Pre-pandemic and post-nursery, I wouldn’t normally come in on more than three, maybe four days per week. However, the pandemic had a lasting effect on my working habits. I developed a strange longing for my…
As an editorial assistant or even associate editor, how do you entice me to review something for your Q2 journal? Easy, actually: On a Saturday morning, send me a generic invitation to review. Make sure that the manuscript is tangential to my own research interests/area of expertise. Extra points if I have never published in…
When even so-so- journals reject promising manuscripts if even one reviewer doesn’t like them, the system is broken. That’s the long and the short of it.
Hey look, I have unlocked a new level of predatory publishing fraud: someone out there is automating so aggressively that they are not just misspelling the title of my article and inventing an affiliation for me: they literally can’t be arsed to spell out my name. Of course, there is no one at King’s with…
Here is another gem from today’s mailbag. They are just taking the piss now.
I get a lot of academic spam However, the missive that arrived yesterday looked like the real deal, then made me question my sanity.
There are so many systems that are supposed to document our outputs, talking to each other all the time.
I lead a very sheltered life: before reading this post, I had never suspected that it is possible to hijack an academic journal.
This article on the Duck by Dan Nexon, about rather unfortunate consequences of the publish/perish incentives,makes some very good points
This, from 2021, is still interesting