The strain on scientific publishing: we set out to characterise the remarkable growth of the scientific literature in the last few years, in spite of declining growth in total scientists. What is going on?

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Frontiers keeps claiming it’s not a predatory publisher but then invites me to join the editorial board of its genetics journal. I’m a law professor who has never written anything even remotely approaching genetics.