The exploitative character of academic publishing in a single cartoon.
#publishing #universities #research #academics
h/t Alexandra Kupferberg/LinkedIn
say, you think yourself a modern publisher. Right on top of quality. Open Access (CC-BY) too! And you value innovation and scientific progress!
And then you publish data in a table in PDF.
Seriously?
The exploitative character of academic publishing in a single cartoon.
#publishing #universities #research #academics
h/t Alexandra Kupferberg/LinkedIn
Publishing your work increases your luck
https://github.com/readme/guides/publishing-your-work
#HackerNews #Publishing #your #work #increases #your #luck #publishing #your #work #luck #increase #creativity #share #your #knowledge
I've had it with #Google #Scholar. Currently trying to do a little bit of automated bibliometrics, and there's a ton of Scholar parsers on Github in various states of brokenness, sometimes with fully integrated proxy support and Selenium backend and whatnot so it doesn't get banhammered...
Yeah nah, I'm just going with OpenAlex now which
a) has a proper API,
b) actually knows what a DOI is, and
c) has much higher-quality data than GS.
I called my recipe book Sabzi – vegetables. But the name was trademarked. And my legal ordeal began
The granting of patents and trademarks to foods and words from the global south is part of a long colonial grab. It’s time to realise we share what we cook, and what we call it Vegetables, in my experience,…
https://www.theguardian.com/food/commentisfree/2025/dec/04/recipe-book-sabzi-vegetables-yasmin-khan-trademark
When the study confirms intuition:
"We find that the number of papers cited at least as well as those appearing in high-impact factor journals vastly exceeds the number of papers published in such venues."
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3003532
Decades on, academic journals are still useless as indicators of much of anything.
