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Sep 17, 20243 min read

Antitrust and the Social-Technical Tension in Information Science

Issue #86 by Gary Marchionini (UNC School of Information & Library Science) Last May, the European Union fined Meta (Facebook’s parent...

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Sep 17, 20242 min read

Citations for Early Career Researchers

Issue #85 by Michael Seadle (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) Jack Grove wrote an article for the Times Higher Education entitled...

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Aug 20, 20242 min read

Origin of Publish or Perish

Issue #84 by Michael Seadle (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) On 15 July 2024 Vladimir Moskovkin published an entry on the “ LSE Impact...

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Aug 20, 20242 min read

Publisher Policies on AI Use

Issue #83 by Michael Seadle (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) Avi Staiman wrote a post in “The Scholarly Kitchen”¹ on 22 July 2024 about...

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Jul 30, 20242 min read

Disinformation as a global challenge

Issue #82 by Gary Marchionini (UNC School of Information & Library Science) A July 11, 2024 article in the New York Times provides a...

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Jul 23, 20242 min read

Quality vs. Quantity

Issue #81 by Michael Seadle (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) In the International Science Council’s blog¹ (2 July 2024), Geoffrey Boulton...

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Jul 23, 20242 min read

Hijackers Target Scopus¹

Issue #80 by Michael Seadle Anna Abalkina wrote in the Retraction Watch Blog (2024): “I’ve cataloged 67 cases since 2013 of hijacked...

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Jun 27, 20242 min read

Ranking Fake Journals

Issue #79 by Michael Seadle Tomasz Żuradzki and Leszek Wroński contributed a post to the Retraction Watch blog about “How a widely used...

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