It's one thing to ask authors to disclose how they used #AI. But it's another to have an articulate policy on what degrees and kinds of use cross the line and make a work unacceptable, especially at a #preprint repository that does moderation without peer review. Here's a thoughtful take by @philipncohen, director of #SocArXiv.
https://socopen.org/2026/02/22/where-should-socarxiv-draw-the-ai-line/
Andreas Wagner
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Update. Many studies look at the acceptance rate for articles by women at high-impact journals. This one looks at the submission rate, and finds that women submit significantly fewer articles to these journals than men. (The percentages differ by field.) When asked why, the most common response was that "they were advised not to."
https://elifesciences.org/articles/90049
Update. "Citation counts [for female authors] are on average 5.5% lower than those of comparable male authors…Papers produced by all-female teams receive 56.7% fewer citations than those by all-male teams, while mixed-gender teams achieve a 30.9% citation advantage."
https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-4155/paper10.pdf
Update. Many studies look at the acceptance rate for articles by women at high-impact journals. This one looks at the submission rate, and finds that women submit significantly fewer articles to these journals than men. (The percentages differ by field.) When asked why, the most common response was that "they were advised not to."
https://elifesciences.org/articles/90049
New study: In #APC-based #OpenAccess journals of orthopedic surgery, APCs "are not proportional to and do not strongly correlate with" journal impact factors.
http://dx.doi.org/10.5435/JAAOSGlobal-D-25-00065
Luke Drury
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Watching with interest.
"COAR Notify and the Launch of a Publish, Review, Curate Alliance."
https://coar-repositories.org/news-updates/coar-notify-and-the-launch-of-a-publish-review-curate-alliance/
PS: I'm a big fan of #COAR, #COARNotify, #PRC, #Preprints, and taking full advantage of #OpenAccess #Repositories.
Watching with interest.
"COAR Notify and the Launch of a Publish, Review, Curate Alliance."
https://coar-repositories.org/news-updates/coar-notify-and-the-launch-of-a-publish-review-curate-alliance/
PS: I'm a big fan of #COAR, #COARNotify, #PRC, #Preprints, and taking full advantage of #OpenAccess #Repositories.
OpenAIRE
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💕 February 9 – 13 2026 is International Love Data Week #LoveData26, but PKP celebrates #DataSharing all year round.
Considering the theme “Where’s the Data” in this post, the answer at PKP is clear — the data is everywhere and #interoperability is how we help it flow:
https://pkp.sfu.ca/2026/02/12/love-data-week-pkp-interoperability/
@crossref @ORCID_Org @DOAJ @ResearchOrgs @OpenAIRE @datacite
#OpenInfrastructure #FOSS #Metadata #DOIs #PIDs #OpenAccess #ScholComm #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicChatter
tools for commensality 🧿
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Update. "Citation counts [for female authors] are on average 5.5% lower than those of comparable male authors…Papers produced by all-female teams receive 56.7% fewer citations than those by all-male teams, while mixed-gender teams achieve a 30.9% citation advantage."
https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-4155/paper10.pdf
💕 February 9 – 13 2026 is International Love Data Week #LoveData26, but PKP celebrates #DataSharing all year round.
Considering the theme “Where’s the Data” in this post, the answer at PKP is clear — the data is everywhere and #interoperability is how we help it flow:
https://pkp.sfu.ca/2026/02/12/love-data-week-pkp-interoperability/
@crossref @ORCID_Org @DOAJ @ResearchOrgs @OpenAIRE @datacite
#OpenInfrastructure #FOSS #Metadata #DOIs #PIDs #OpenAccess #ScholComm #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicChatter
Nicolas Fressengeas
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How can regional consortia lower the barrier to #ORCID adoption? 🌍
Join us on 24 Feb for an AMA on ORCID Community Hubs. We're exploring how platforms in South Africa, NZ, & Uganda simplify integration.
Featuring:
✅ TENETNews
✅ ORCID_NZ
✅ Uganda ORCID Hub
Register: https://orcid-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/4417703024065/WN_uIo4fJPVT7mlsTr76QvMbA
How can regional consortia lower the barrier to #ORCID adoption? 🌍
Join us on 24 Feb for an AMA on ORCID Community Hubs. We're exploring how platforms in South Africa, NZ, & Uganda simplify integration.
Featuring:
✅ TENETNews
✅ ORCID_NZ
✅ Uganda ORCID Hub
Register: https://orcid-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/4417703024065/WN_uIo4fJPVT7mlsTr76QvMbA
Update. "By analyzing all articles indexed in the PubMed database (>36.5 million articles published in >36,000 biomedical and life sciences journals), we show that the median amount of time spent under review is 7.4%–14.6% longer for female-authored articles than for male-authored articles."
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3003574
Update. "Citation counts [for female authors] are on average 5.5% lower than those of comparable male authors…Papers produced by all-female teams receive 56.7% fewer citations than those by all-male teams, while mixed-gender teams achieve a 30.9% citation advantage."
https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-4155/paper10.pdf
A review of the proceedings from four major computer-science conferences showed that none from 2021, and all from 2025, had fake citations.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05867v1
The authors prefer the term "mysterious citations" which they define this way: "No paper [with] a similar enough title exists. The cited location either does not exist or holds an unrelated paper with different authors."
Sylvia Wenmackers 🦉🍀
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From #FritzHolznagel: "When science discourages correction: How publishers profit from mistakes."
https://theconversation.com/when-science-discourages-correction-how-publishers-profit-from-mistakes-272657
Journals are slow to publish corrections -- slow as in years, even decades -- allowing uncorrected articles to build up citations and impact. Corrections often appear behind paywalls, and conversely, paywalls make errors harder to detect.
"Science advances not by being right, but by discovering where it’s wrong – and fixing it. Systematic reform must reframe prompt correction as a hallmark of integrity, not a badge of failure…If publishers can profit from paywalled errors, they can afford open corrections…Journals should make corrections visible, prestigious, and citable, and expand #DiamondOA models. Wider access means more scrutiny and faster fixes."
Darrell Gunter makes a very interesting case for "compute-ready documents".
https://www.researchinformation.info/analysis-opinion/scholarly-publishings-great-leap/
Some Google searching suggests that other people call these objects "semantic twins".
Some of my questions:
* Do you know any researchers creating or crunching them?
* Do you know any publishers publishing them?
* Do you know any repositories collecting them?
* Do you know any search engines indexing them?
* Do you know any AI tools building on them?
* Do you know any promotion and tenure committees giving career credit for them?
* Do you know any debates about their strengths and weaknesses for research?
Claudius Link
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1/ I'm seeking expressions of interest from nonprofit organizations to take over the Open Access Tracking Project ( #OATP, @oatp) and the open-source software ( #TagTeam) on which it runs.
Details in this Google doc:
https://bit.ly/TransferOATP
Contact me <peter.suber@gmail.com> if you have any questions or any level of interest.
#OpenAccess #OpenScience #OpenSource #ScholComm
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J Miller
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Update. "Beginning February 11, 2026, #arXiv will require that all submissions have a full English-language version, either as the original language or as an included translation."
https://blog.arxiv.org/2025/11/21/upcoming-policy-change-to-non-english-language-paper-submissions/
Coverage of the new policy in Nature.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00229-0
Update. "For the 1990–2023 period, we find that only Indonesian, Portuguese, and Spanish have expanded at a faster pace than English [in academic publishing]… Social sciences and humanities are the least English-dominated fields… Policies recognizing the value of both national-language and English-language publications have had a concrete impact on the distribution of languages in the global field of scholarly communication."
https://asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asi.70055
Update. "Beginning February 11, 2026, #arXiv will require that all submissions have a full English-language version, either as the original language or as an included translation."
https://blog.arxiv.org/2025/11/21/upcoming-policy-change-to-non-english-language-paper-submissions/
Coverage of the new policy in Nature.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00229-0
Update. "For the 1990–2023 period, we find that only Indonesian, Portuguese, and Spanish have expanded at a faster pace than English [in academic publishing]… Social sciences and humanities are the least English-dominated fields… Policies recognizing the value of both national-language and English-language publications have had a concrete impact on the distribution of languages in the global field of scholarly communication."
https://asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asi.70055