Professorial student of Neurogenetics.
Open Science Insurrectionist.
Mostly on Mastodon now: @brembs@mastodon.social
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Mar 14, 2023 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
As Paul Abrahams is tweeting in his capacity as "Chief Communications Officer at RELX", let's fact-check his three statements here, one by one, as an example of just how trustworthy such public statements from RELX / #Elsevier can be (1/9):
1. "Elsevier provides above-average quality".
Let's pretend, for now, RELX were not chiefly a surveillance platform and data broker enabling ICE mass deportations (some quality!), but instead an academic publisher with above average overall impact factor. (2/9)
Jan 5, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
New year, new insult by publishers to the intelligence of academics, nothing ever seems to change.
7 years ago, @SciReports offered expedited peer-review for a fee and heads rolled: science.org/content/articl…
As if our memories didn't last for 7 years, now T&F offers the same:
They call it "Accelerated Publication": taylorandfrancis.com/partnership/co…
and advertise it as a way for rich institutions to beat their less well-off competitors in case they ever managed to threaten their rank.
Jan 4, 2022 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
This is a fact that cannot be repeated often enough:
"Sci-Hub's Creator Thinks Academic Publishers, Not Her Site, Are The Real Threat To Science, And Says: 'Any Law Against Knowledge Is Fundamentally Unjust'" buff.ly/3zt5p95
via @glynmoody and @petermurrayrust
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Academic publishers indeed are the real threat to science:
Exhibit A: They exploit journal rank for profit, leading to less and less reliable science the higher the prestige (and hence profitability) of the journal: frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…
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Sep 23, 2021 • 13 tweets • 5 min read
With Elsevier's @paul_abrahams stating a rejection rate over all Elsevier journals of ~77%,
we can use this figure to calculate Elsevier's publishing costs using the available market rates for publishing services: f1000research.com/articles/10-20…
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Assuming Elsevier publishes at least as efficiently as the companies that are on the record with such costs, the figure comes to lie at US$574.74 per article (in our scenario B), i.e., very close to the estimated average per-article publishing costs for the industry:
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Oct 27, 2020 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
It appears the SNSI arguing that universities ought to install publisher spyware on their servers bjoern.brembs.net/2020/10/is-the…
is just the tip of the iceberg.
There seems to be a clan of publisher-initiatives and companies that reinforce each other and create a disinformation and surveillance network: PSI, LibLynx etc.
Something is brewing that the #OpenScience community doesn't seem to have on their radar, yet.
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