A Few days ago I posted the same two posts on both LinkedIn and X (Twitter). I put arguments forward for only focusing on publishing in Q1/Q2 @Scopus indexed journals and also for why you should not focus on Q1/Q2 journals. 🧵

Research integrity conference hit with AI-generated abstracts retractionwatch.com/2025/11/18/r...

To reform universities, first tackle global rankings www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The uncomfortable truth about mandatory publications for PhD students There’s a point in this debate that many people tiptoe around: mandatory publication doesn’t just create pressure, it also creates inequality. 🧵

In Langkawi, Malaysia and saw this building. Do they just have a small footprint to build on?

Looking at the Journal of Clinical Case Reports Medical Images and Health Sciences (JCRMHS) (ISSN: 2832-1286). I received this email (the highlight is theirs, not mine). I wonder how much the DOI charges are. It's not in the email, and I can't find it on the web site. 🧵

More than 200 Korean papers retracted over AI use www.donga.com/en/article/a...

Peer Review Is Broken. Here’s How to Fix It. — The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal buff.ly/h1EZF1d

STOP, don't scroll, read the image and just think about it. ........ Yes it is crazy! Now read the (X) post. buff.ly/1FhKQlx

This is one of the stray cats that has been adopted by the Temple Tree hotel, Langkawi, Malaysia. He may look a bit miserable but he was very friendly and liked being stroked. Kudos to the hotel for welcoming in cats that have no where else to go.

Dodgy behaviour ‘still rife’ in international education www.timeshighereducation.com/news/dodgy-b...

Looking at the Journal of Clinical Case Reports Medical Images and Health Sciences (JCRMHS) (ISSN: 2832-1286). I received this email (the highlight is theirs, not mine). On the journal's home page, it says that it has a Google Scholar account, which it does. We took a look at it (buff.ly/xn9Epiv) 🧵

Pie News spoke with Tim Jones, vice-chancellor of the University of Liverpool, about the university’s forthcoming India campus, his guidance for sector newcomers, and more. thepienews.com/tim-jones-un...

Scientific fraud: analysis of a growing phenomenon www.polytechnique-insights.com/en/columns/s...

We talk a lot about predatory journals and publishers, but we rarely talk about (or just ignore) when behaviour that we would regard as predatory is exhibited in what we regard as legitimate journals. 🧵

Quiet quitting in academia is increasingly visible? In most universities, staff rarely “quit loudly.” Instead, they gradually withdraw from the parts of academic life that once gave their work meaning. 🧵

Should PhD students be required to publish a peer-reviewed paper before graduation? It’s a question that often divide universities and it rarely has a simple answer. 🧵

British academy chief urges MPs to address British Library woes - Research Professional News www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-c...

Enjoyed visiting Taylor’s University this morning. Great to catch up with Gazi Mahabubul Alam and make plans for some joint research. Looking forward to the next stage of this collaboration.

I asked a Large Language Model, #LLM, to generate a SWOT (Strengths , Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats) analysis for #PredatoryPublishing. I asked it to look at it s if it was a predatory publisher. Here is what it said.

Is it fair to expect PhD students to publish before graduating? Even when publication is encouraged, there’s a deeper question that’s harder to ignore: is it fair to make graduation dependent on something the student cannot control? 🧵

‘Godfather of AI’ becomes first person to hit one million citations www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Looking at the Journal of Clinical Case Reports Medical Images and Health Sciences (JCRMHS) (ISSN: 2832-1286). I received this email (the highlight is theirs, not mine). I'll be taking a closer look at the journal in future posts. Journal URL: buff.ly/O5S5J1F (archived at buff.ly/MYDTEbW)

I asked a Large Language Model, #LLM, to generate a SWOT (Strengths , Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats) analysis for #PredatoryPublishing. I asked it to look at it s if it was a librarian. Here is what it said.

Are We Asking Too Much of Our Academic Staff? The academic portfolio seems to grow heavier every year. Teaching, research, supervision and administration were once the core expectations.

Shadow scholars: inside Kenya’s multibillion-dollar fake-essay industry www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Bug in Springer Nature metadata may be causing ‘significant, systemic’ citation inflation retractionwatch.com/2025/11/11/b...

Will Asian international students turn away from the West? www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/will-a...

Author changes name, publishes 10 papers in journals that banned him retractionwatch.com/2025/11/10/a...

Math is back as Clarivate boosts integrity markers in Highly Cited Researchers list retractionwatch.com/2025/11/12/m...

Not faster but fairer: tame ‘techno-solutionism’ to build inclusive futures with AI www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/not-f...

Are academics becoming overexposed on LinkedIn? buff.ly/WsMUhCL

International enrolments at UK business schools on the mend thepienews.com/internationa...

I received this email from Austin Journal of Clinical Case Reports (ISSN: 2381-912X), published by the Austin Publishing Group. The journals says that it has an impact factor of 3.28 but it is not obvious (may not even be stated) where this impact comes from. 🧵

I received this email from Austin Journal of Clinical Case Reports (ISSN: 2381-912X), published by the Austin Publishing Group. I wonder what recent publications of mine that are referring to as I have never published a clinical paper? 🧵

Many assume that #OpenAccess (OA) automatically means paying an article processing charge. Actually, there are several ways that researchers can publish open access without paying an #APC. 🧵

It's perhaps a little ironic that this recent (or should that be future, as it is being published in 2026?) is getting some remarks on #PubPeer. The article is available here: buff.ly/5kXkGEh You can see the PuPeer comments here: buff.ly/09q65qO, but I'll pick up on a few points. 🧵

Just looked at the top publishing authors in 2025 (so far). These are the top five. Not saying that there is anything wrong, but jut like to have a data point whenever I remember to do it. Source: Scopus (15 Nov 2025)

Universities at risk of going bust before freshers graduate theboar.org/2025/09/univ...

University rankings generate strong opinions, both positive and negative, but one thing is clear, rankings shape how institutions see themselves and how the world sees them. 🧵

Was just looking around and I saw this paper. To be honest I was shocked. I have seen some strange things reported in peer reviewed papers but allegations of murder - that is a first for me. 🧵

Recently I’ve been thinking about the support we offer PhD students. All universities do their best, and supervisors work incredibly hard. But some students still feel that they are navigating their PhD alone, particularly when it comes to publishing. 🧵

The Source / When Academia Takes on Journalism… and Falls Short blog.cabells.com/2025/09/24/w...

I received this email from Austin Journal of Clinical Case Reports (ISSN: 2381-912X), published by the Austin Publishing Group. I plan to take a look at the email a little more closely in a few future posts. 🧵

Went to KLGCC this morning just to have a look at Kuala Lumpur’s shopping mall (cos we need more 😜). These are the views from the very top floor. Not too shabby.

Study sheds light on journalists’ knowledge of predatory journals - The Journalist's Resource journalistsresource.org/home/study-s...

I am sure that most of us can recognise a calendar like this - walls of green blocks, back-to-back meetings, and hardly any time to think, plan, or simply “do the day job”. 🧵

Nice to get a few more citations, two of them to my articles on hyper-heuristics. 🧵

"The Drain of Scientific Publishing" I don't often post preprints as I'd rather wait for the peer reviewed version to appear, but I do make exceptions - and this is one of them. I really hope that this make it through peer review arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820

When career survival depends on publishing something (anything) rather than discovering something new, integrity becomes optional. We have built a system where papers are currency and citations are status. 🧵