The Publication is Alive!

Mikhail Gorbunov-Posadov, in a November article in publications: An alive publication is a new genre for presenting the results of scientific research, where the scientific work is published online, and then is constantly being developed and improved by its author....

‘We failed to anticipate how successful APCs would become’

Alison Mudditt, CEO of PLOS, in an interview with The Scholarly Kitchen about a year ago: Back when PLOS launched and focused on the biomedical sciences, charging authors a fee to publish seemed fair and reasonable. Fast forward twenty years and it’s clear that we...

‘The game of academic publishing’

Nathalie Ann Köbli and colleagues, writing for Frontiers in Communication on gamification of social scientists’ publishing: Quantifying publication outcomes to assess and financially incentivize research performance results in a highly competitive playing field where...