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Isidro F. Aguillo @isidroaguillo.bsky.social · 1h

Our periodic review of the coverage of the major bibliographic databases (October 2025)
GS no longer the largest due to the huge increase of OpenAlex. New data for Xueshu

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Victor de Lorenzo (CNB, Madrid) @vdlorenzo.bsky.social · 1d

Predatory practices plague modern science, but the origins & reasons of their success can be identified—and solutions exist. Instead of blacklists, funding agencies should foster accreditation systems. See analyses & proposals of the EAM Task Force of @femsmicro.org on the matter shorturl.at/gVXJR

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polecopub @polecopub.bsky.social · 1d

If you wish to study the effect of #opendata in #researchevaluation, please consider this postdoc position in London #openscience ( @lizziegadd.bsky.social ) www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/126965-...

Post Doctoral Research Associate, “Between Economy and Democracy: Reorganising Research Evaluation through Metadata in the Digital Era” | King's College London

www.kcl.ac.uk

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polecopub @polecopub.bsky.social · 1d

Before these LLM bots, "answers" were not given; you would be offered websites on which actual answers could be found, by reading. Google's Matthew effect has been well documented, but that still makes a difference both in the need to read and in the trust towards these "answers".

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easst.bsky.social @easst.bsky.social · Sep 3

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polecopub @polecopub.bsky.social · 7d

Retraction of articles days after their publication feels like a circus. Now imagine that France had a government for just 12h (not a joke). So short that the international press can't follow www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Macron appoints new French government in attempt to end political deadlock

Rivals say president’s latest cabinet represents unwelcome continuity and hard-left party vows to file no-confidence motion amid fraught budget talks

www.theguardian.com

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matilda.science @matilda-science.bsky.social · 11d

That is why we have multiple sources in Matilda and deduplicate to get abstracts and, more importantly, full-text indexing to achieve maximum discoverability. #openscience #openresearchinformation

Aaron Tay @aarontay.bsky.social · 11d

[blogged] The Petrol Tank for AI Discovery Might be Running Dry as Publishers close access to scholarly content such as abstracts due to AI incentives aarontay.substack.com/p/the-petrol... - an analysis of OpenAlex abstract coverage changes for Elsevier & Springernature

The Petrol Tank for AI Discovery Might be Running Dry as Publishers close access to scholarly content such as abstracts due to AI incentives

Elicit.com, Consensus, and Undermind.ai are among the new leading comprehensive cross-disciplinary “AI-powered academic search engines” today.

aarontay.substack.com

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polecopub @polecopub.bsky.social · 11d

Exactly what we expected at @matilda-science.bsky.social Soon "citation disadvantage" papers will objectify the cascading effects.

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Ludo Waltman @ludowaltman.bsky.social · 11d

Important observation by Aaron Tay: Articles published by Elsevier and Springer Nature may be increasingly difficult to find. For many of these articles abstracts are not made openly available, limiting article discoverability, in particular using AI tools.

@barcelonadori.bsky.social @oa2020.org

Aaron Tay @aarontay.bsky.social · 11d

[blogged] The Petrol Tank for AI Discovery Might be Running Dry as Publishers close access to scholarly content such as abstracts due to AI incentives aarontay.substack.com/p/the-petrol... - an analysis of OpenAlex abstract coverage changes for Elsevier & Springernature

The Petrol Tank for AI Discovery Might be Running Dry as Publishers close access to scholarly content such as abstracts due to AI incentives

Elicit.com, Consensus, and Undermind.ai are among the new leading comprehensive cross-disciplinary “AI-powered academic search engines” today.

aarontay.substack.com

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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 11d

Another record month for bioRxiv - and further evidence the pandemic spike+dip was just that and growth continues. Thanks to all involved and that includes 🫵

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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 11d

In 2016 Hinton predicted that AI would replace all radiologists in five years. Ten years later, why hasn't it happened? This post is a great explainer.

www.understandingai.org/p/ai-isnt-re...

AI isn't replacing radiologists

Radiology combines digital images, clear benchmarks, and repeatable tasks. But demand for human radiologists is at an all-time high.

www.understandingai.org

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Make Data Count @makedatacount.bsky.social · 11d

Today on the blog, we feature Matilda, a bibliographic platform built specifically for open science. We spoke with project lead Didier Torny about the project, and their plans to incorporate links to datasets for the articles they index in Matilda.

👉 makedatacount.org/read-our-blo...

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polecopub @polecopub.bsky.social · 14d

Asbestos was highly effective in mitigating the effects of fire. What could be the positive effect of LLM AI?

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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 16d

“Added value” 🙄

Rutger K. 🟥 @anotheraspirin.bsky.social · 17d

This is a problem.

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Dr. Jonathan N. Stea @jonathanstea.bsky.social · 20d

RFK Jr: “Research on vaccines and autism has been suppressed.”

PubMed: “Here’s over 1200 research papers on vaccines and autism…

…including this first one which is a meta-analysis showing that vaccines are not associated with autism.”

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polecopub @polecopub.bsky.social · 21d

The new definition of guest authorship...

polecopub @polecopub.bsky.social · 21d

OK, so Crossref-based.

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polecopub @polecopub.bsky.social · 21d

I knew for MDPI, I did not realise the fall for Frontiers was that high (I suppose you talk about WoS volume not Crossref volume)

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polecopub @polecopub.bsky.social · 21d

Most people don't realise how big Frontiers and MDPI have become (in volume).

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Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social · 23d

Universities:
- Stop offering workshops on how to use ChatGPT to write papers
- stop using DeepL to translate your websites or make it sound useful for our research
- stop pretending AI usage is inevitable.

I don‘t want to work for institutions who can‘t employ critical thinking to new tech.

Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 23d

“university leaders … must act to help us collectively turn back the tide of garbage software, which fuels harmful tropes (e.g. so-called lazy students) and false frames (e.g. so-called efficiency or inevitability) to obtain market penetration and increase technological dependency”

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Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia

Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these col...

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polecopub @polecopub.bsky.social · 23d

I see it as a spectrum, humanities are very close to maths (replacing articles with books): one or two authors, very limited reading, hard to write, each word is weighed before publication.

polecopub @polecopub.bsky.social · 23d

No, it is incredibly hard to write a math paper, to read it, to review it, so they just make a few of them, while biologists salami slice and publish the slightest correlation or the quickest experiment (not every biologist).

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 24d

In the past I've criticised the F1000 model for being editorially light touch, but my experience of publishing this article was really good. Two rounds of review with four expert reviewers who each provided really helpful feedback and have now approved the paper.

f1000research.com/articles/14-...

F1000Research Article: “I just very much love the journal”:  Understanding the community-led publishing landscape at the University of Cambridge.

Read the latest article version by Samuel Moore, Mandy Wigdorowitz, at F1000Research.

f1000research.com

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Dan McQuade @dhm.bsky.social · 23d

Make sure to wish a librarian a happy Gerald Ford Trapped in The Penn Library Elevator Day.

A sign in an elevator

On the 19th day of September, 1984
Former U.S. President
Gerald R. Ford
was temporarily trapped in this elevator.
VAN PELT-DIETRICH
LIBRARY CENTER

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Peer Community In @peercommunityin.bsky.social · 23d

Yesterday, we had the pleasure of listening to Dorothy Bishop emphasize the responsibility of editors during the 12th PCI Webinar! If you weren't able to join, you can catch her talk and the following Q&A session at this link: youtu.be/0NJ87tYE8_s

PCI Webinar-Dorothy Bishop-How negligent publishers subvert quality control in scientific publishing

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