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Journalology #107: Censorship and chaos

Subscribe to newsletter Hello fellow journalologists, This week’s scholarly publishing news has been dominated by one topic. I've attempted to summarise some of the key news stories and opinions related to the new US administration’s edicts, as they relate to academic journals. The past few weeks have been disorientating and confusing. Soon the smoke will lift and we will have a clearer view of the challenges that are facing us. Cool heads are needed. So is solidarity. Our industry is based...

Subscribe to newsletter Hello fellow journalologists, Sir Theodore "Robbie" Fortescue Fox, who edited The Lancet between 1944 and 1964 noted that there are two types of journal: newspaper journals and recorder journals. We should all be thankful for the role that newspaper journals play in these troubled times. Science and Nature, in particular, play an invaluable news-gathering role, especially during times of political or social upheaval. Scienceinsider has done an incredible job over the...

Subscribe to newsletter Hello fellow journalologists, Welcome to 2025. Many of you will have had some time off and will now be playing catch up. In this issue I’ve attempted to summarise the key news stories that broke over the festive period. There’s a lot to cover, so I’ve dropped the Opinion section to keep this newsletter to a reasonable(ish) length. A new year represents a new beginning. A time to take stock and plan for the year ahead. If you would like to work with me one-to-one, my...

Subscribe to newsletter Hello fellow journalologists, With Christmas fast approaching, this will be the final newsletter of 2024. Thank you for reading Journalology this year; I hope you’ve got some value from it. I’m attending the APE (Academic Publishing in Europe) conference in Berlin January 14-15, so please do say hello if you’re there too. I’m taking part in a panel discussion that will cover one of my favourite topics: “Balancing Quantity and Quality in Research Communication”. Nandita...

Subscribe to newsletter Hello fellow journalologists, This week’s issue of the newsletter is packed full of scholarly publishing goodness. You’ll learn about two new editorial benchmarking surveys, a report on data sharing, changes to the way Scopus selects journals for inclusion, and much more. Enjoy! Thrive in 2025: join the Journalology coaching programme We’ll work together to clarify your strategic vision and map out a plan to create journals that are impactful editorially and...

Subscribe to newsletter Hello fellow journalologists, We’re in the final month of 2024 and there’s still no sign of Frontiers’ annual progress report for 2023. There’s a page dedicated to the latest impact data, though. Oh well, there’s always next year. The biggest story of last week was an announcement from the Indian government about the One Nation One Subscription agreement with 30 international publishers. Meanwhile, the furore around Clarivate’s decision not to award eLife an impact...

Subscribe to newsletter Hello fellow journalologists, This week’s lead story comes off the back of a tip from a Journalology reader. I monitor the news wires each week, but it’s impossible to pick up everything. Tips are always welcome. Just hit [reply] to one of these newsletters. Contributions are gratefully received. Thank you to our sponsor, Digital Science Dimensions Author Check transforms the process of reviewing researchers’ publication histories and networks to check for research...

Subscribe to newsletter Hello fellow journalologists, When I started this newsletter back in August 2023 I wasn’t sure I’d make it to issue 10 let alone issue 100. And yet, by some miracle, here we are. There have been times when I wished I’d never started writing Journalology, generally at 6 am on a Sunday morning when there’s a blank sheet in front of me. However, looking back over 100 issues, it’s been an enjoyable and educational experience. I learn something new every week; hopefully you...

Subscribe to newsletter Hello fellow journalologists, This newsletter is on the cusp of hitting the three figure mark. It’s almost as exciting as the turn of the millennium. (Are these available outside of the UK? If not, the title of this newsletter will make no sense at all.) Thank you to our sponsor, Digital Science Writefull uses AI to automate language and metadata tasks and make these scalable. Writefull’s Manuscript Categorization API automatically scores and categorizes manuscripts by...

Subscribe to newsletter Hello fellow journalologists, I took some time off recently to celebrate a significant wedding anniversary, so we’ve got 2 weeks’ news to catch up on. Grab a coffee and skim through the newsletter; a lot has happened in the past fortnight. I’m able to invest time and energy into the newsletter because of the sponsors’ financial support. Thanks are due to Digital Science and Scholastica, which are sponsoring the next four issues of the newsletter. Please do read their...