Was sent this Google Scholar profile via a DM (so I'll respect the privacy). This person has published 42 articles, most in 2024 and 2025, and 3 in 2023, and they have an h-index of 25. The second image shows some of the citations to 2024 articles. 🧵

Received this email from the Journal of Clinical Case Reports Medical Images and Health Sciences (ISSN: 2832-1286). The email was received on 01 Oct 2025 and the deadline for submissions is 15 Aug 2025. Journal URL: buff.ly/x9NkUs6 (Archived at buff.ly/ycg8SwG)

Build Your Own Commodore 64 Cartridge You can do it with free software and just a few dollars in parts spectrum.ieee.org/commodore-64...

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Let’s get negative about scholarly publishing occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2025/...

Examining Retractions in Sustainability Research: Frequency, Causes, and Key Themes - Journal of Academic Ethics buff.ly/EELGXUg

If only one publishing model was available, would you choose traditional (free to publish and reader pays to read) or open access (author pays and article can be read by anybody)?

Granting agencies grapple with scientific fraud - University Affairs buff.ly/7AUbW0t

Looking at the Journal of Clinical Case Reports Medical Images and Health Sciences (ISSN: 2832-1286). One of the menu items promises to tell you about the Article Processing Charges. In fact, it leads to the Contact page. Journal URL: buff.ly/x9NkUs6 (Archived at buff.ly/ycg8SwG)

When you reach that point where you can’t delay doing the statistics for a paper any longer and you need to call in the big guns to help you do the analysis and write up the results.

Really liked this horse statue in Ipoh. Just a shame that you can’t see it in its full glory and there are distractions in the way - and that is after healing out the distraction that I could.

Spending the weekend in Ipoh and have already seen some great street art.

Spending the weekend in Ipoh. Our first coffee stop and the coffee is tailor made (IFYYK).

Information abundance only makes scholarly relevance more elusive buff.ly/lVT9aW1

We recently ran a couple of surveys. In case you missed them, here are the results. The survey links point to X posts. Survey 1: buff.ly/mx82uPX Survey 2: buff.ly/jzhf02k

Why Explaining Your Problems to a Rubber Duck Actually Works buff.ly/6qnyTeH

"Ccertainly, here is a possible introduction for you." "... there are concerns that the authors appear to have used Generative AI ..." It appears that the authors used GenAI. Looks fairly obvious to me. Article: buff.ly/i6nHNZS Retraction: buff.ly/KXTTEL8

Failing to Understand the Exponential, Again bit.ly/46FkZzt

Nice to get a citation to one of my recent articles. It's been cited 6 times now according to Google Scholar. Kendall, G. (2024) Are open access fees a good use of tax payers money?. Quantitative Science Studies, 5 (1): 264-270. buff.ly/FI0sJwU

In case this passed you by, we ran a few surveys over the past few days. Here are the results of three of them (X posts). Survey 1: buff.ly/LhKGU1L Survey 2: buff.ly/fGnp5pd Survey 3: buff.ly/S7fwFxu

Received this email from World Journal of Advances in Applied Physics and Mathematical Theories [can't find an ISSN], which is published by Scientific Eminence Group. I replied to them. 🧵

Chatbots and large language models are being used to fact-check scientific work, but how effective are they? buff.ly/j97KLii

This is the aims and scope of World Journal of Advances in Applied Physics and Mathematical Theories [can't find an ISSN]. The issue I have is that they appear to have only published one issue (and not certain that is complete), so how do they know that their journal is of "high repute". 🧵

Last year I published a paper that looked at the scale of open access fees across a number of publishers. 🧵 Post publication, I had a good conversation with Dan Brockington, who suggested several ways that the paper could be improved (or wrong, depending on your lens 😂).

The scientific peer review system, long considered the backbone of research quality control, is showing signs of serious strain. Editors and authors alike report mou buff.ly/U06T0G0

Looking at Scientific Eminence Group. This is their Open Acces statement. To be honest, it needs a good proof read and rewriting in some places. Publisher URL: buff.ly/QuXuuKk (Archived at buff.ly/bLB2H9v)

Busy day started with a quick video session. The videographers were great fun to work with.

New COPE retraction guidelines address paper mills, third parties, and more

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When you look at your diary just before going to bed and you realise that tomorrow is full on, you won't be able to get much else done (so forget the inbox that is over flowing and the stack of paperwork on your desk) and you'll just go from on meeting to the next.

Why science needs outsiders: Science has forgotten that the greatest breakthroughs often come from outsiders who are able to take a fresh perspective. buff.ly/NW7AoDH

CHATBOTS AND LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS ARE BEING USED TO FACT-CHECK SCIENTIFIC WORK, BUT HOW EFFECTIVE ARE THEY? buff.ly/j97KLii

RT @RetractionWatch: “Jay Bhattacharya Wants to Fix Science. Is He in Over His Head?” t.co/qoIw2KHKOA t.co/qoIw2KHKOA

Taylor & Francis threatens legal action against anonymous group’s ‘highly defamatory’ claims retractionwatch.com/2025/09/26/t...

Looking at Scientific Eminence Group. These are all the journals they publish. Just thought it was worth capturing. Publisher URL: buff.ly/QuXuuKk (Archived at buff.ly/bLB2H9v) List of journals: buff.ly/5gt12yF (Archived at buff.ly/z5PuLJP)

University email addresses no longer effective bulwark against fake peer review buff.ly/I9BBgeO

I uploaded a set of Jeffrey Beall's papers to an LLM and asked it "What is the most mentioned publisher from this set of papers?" Here is the response: 🧵

Ask Ethan: What is the true purpose of scientific peer review? Just because a paper passes peer review doesn’t mean that what’s written, or what the author asserts, is true. Here’s why it still matters. bigthink.com/starts-with-...

Looking at Scientific Eminence Group. These are the Open Access Article Processing Charges - thought was was just worth capturing it. See the link below to see all the journals, but they are all USD 1,889. 🧵

Looking at Scientific Eminence Group. This publisher publishes about 45 journals. This is where their office is located. No problem with people running businesses from their homes, but it does seem a little inadequate for a publisher with a portfolio of ~45 journals? 🧵

Lack of geographic diversity in peer review skews “publishable” research - Impact of Social Sciences buff.ly/CXwHOP0

Math has publication fraud, too retractionwatch.com/2025/09/24/m...

Just looking a JScholar publisher. I was particularly drawn theor their vision statement. 🧵

Far more authors use AI to write science papers than admit it, publisher reports buff.ly/KCca1BD

Can You Code With Pictures? Esoteric Languages Challenge How We Code spectrum.ieee.org/esoteric-pro...

Ask Ethan: What is the true purpose of scientific peer review? Just because a paper passes peer review doesn’t mean that what’s written, or what the author asserts, is true. Here’s why it still matters. buff.ly/Qf6hEVU

Looking a JScholar publisher. I was particularly drawn theor their vision statement. Just thought it twas worth recording their APCs, as you never know when you might twant to refer to them. Publisher URL: buff.ly/7SdOvg8 (Archived at buff.ly/lGq7fam)

Beyond ‘we used ChatGPT’: a new way to declare AI in research - Research Professional News www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-euro...

‘Publish or perish’ evolutionary pressures shape scientific publishing, for better and worse theconversation.com/publish-or-p...

I like to think that people drop by my office because they want to see me, have a chat and just have some quality time. But I think there is another reason.