Blindspot — Was a Key Factor Missed in the Study of Viral Lies?
A recent study of the spread of lies on Twitter is an important advance, but the authors missed a potentially huge factor, and one we can’t ignore.
Not Every Publisher Can Support A Cascade Journal
Solving the transfer problem has created a widespread perception that rejecting a manuscript–especially after considerable time and resources have been devoted to its review–is downright wasteful. If it’s publishable, why not publish it?
Cascades and Volcanoes — Are the Problems of Science in Public Discourse Getting Worse?
Hysteria over a supervolcano leads to speculation about the eruptions of misinformation all around us. And, why exactly are we seeing so many recycled news stories in social media these days?
When the Price of Rejection Becomes Cheaper
Does cascading peer-review increase inappropriate submissions?
Focusing on Value — 102 Things Journal Publishers Do (2018 Update)
[…] so may limit your ability to own your brand. Defending a trademark is part of the deal. The trend toward cascading journal portfolios and new open access (OA) oriented brand extensions points to the ongoing importance of brand management. Brand […]
Game of Papers: eLife, BMC, PLoS and EMBO Announce New Peer Review Consortium
[…] useful since the editor needs to know the identify of the reviewers to ascertain his or her area of expertise.” Cascading peer review systems, of which this is a variant, have been in use for some time. Publishers with numerous […]
Ask the Chefs: "What Do You Think Is the Most Important Trend in Publishing Today?"
Welcome to a new feature of the Scholarly Kitchen we’re calling “Ask the Chefs.” The premise is that each month, the Chefs (contributors) to the Scholarly Kitchen will answer a provocative question in a pithy paragraph or two. Each Chef answers the question without benefit of seeing the others’ responses. This month’s question: “What Do You Think Is the Most Important Trend in Publishing Today?”
Cascading Peer-Review — The Future of Open Access?
[…] processing fees) that would have been lost to other publishers. It is a bulk publishing model, not unlike PLoS ONE. Cascading Peer-Review Focusing on reducing costs and improving efficiencies, many publishers have implemented services to redirect rejected manuscripts to related […]
Revisiting — Return of the Big Brands: How Legacy Publishers Will Coopt Open Access
[…] undermining the prestige of the journal, not to mention the pride of those who edit it. Thus we have the cascading model: articles rejected by the editors of the big brand-name journal are directed to other publications in the same […]
Return of the Big Brands: How Legacy Publishers Will Coopt Open Access
[…] the initial period of advocacy for open access, commercial interests have entered this market and are now prepared to augment their positions by leveraging their elite brands, using them, as it were, to draw manuscripts for a family of cascading products.
Diversion, Invention, and Socialized Medicine
[…] science with a cascade of under-scrutinized confirmatory results funding for new research adds funders’ desires to pursue viable hypotheses, further cascading convincing theoretical narratives with apparent (albeit social) citation strength For medicine to become scientific and not about stories, the […]
Revisiting — Should You “Revise and Resubmit”? Probably
Today Angela Cochran revisits a post from 2016 on “revise and resubmit” decisions and what it means for authors and editors. Do new peer review models or cascading programs change the use of “revise and resubmit”?
Plan S: Impact on Society Publishers
Plan S implementation guidance has not provided reassurance to anxious society publishers
Guest Post: Kent Anderson UPDATED — 96 Things Publishers Do (2016 Edition)
[…] so may limit your ability to own your brand. Defending a trademark is part of the deal. The trend toward cascading journal portfolios and new OA-oriented brand extensions points to the ongoing importance of brand management. Expense level: $$. Difficulty: […]
Look to Production to Predict the Next Digital Breakthrough — Editorial Offices
[…] RSS, and things that sound like a beverage at a bookstore coffee shop (Javascript), unfortunate miscues in fashion magazines ( cascading style sheets, or CSS), and drug experiences (Ruby on Rails) have moved Web site development into the mainstream. People […]