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February 1, 2023, #28 On 19 January 2023 the “Scholarly Kitchen” hosted a discussion about “The Dea(r)th of Social Media? Assessing...

January 24, 2023, #27 ChatGPT has made headlines in the press, but as yet the number of papers offering a systematic analysis of its...

January 17, 2023, #26 Mike Rossner wrote a recent guest post for Scholarly Kitchen about why “Publishers Should Be Transparent About the...

January 10, 2023, #25 Many universities and many countries use Journal Impact Factors (JIFs) when assessing the quality of publications...

December 13, 2022, #24 Olavo B. Amaral wrote in Nature on 23 November 2022 that peer review could be fixed by breaking it into stages:...

November 29, 2022, #23 Macháček and Srholec begin their article in MIT’s Quantitative Science Studies (2022) by noting that: “Predatory...

November 22, 2022, #22 Serge Horbach, Michael Ochsner, and Wolfgang Kaltenbrunner wrote for a blog from the Centre for Science and...

November 15, 2022, #21 Predatory journals represent a potential risk especially for early-career scholars without any permanent position....