An new pre-print on arXiv mobilises remarkable data to understand the role of publishers in generating current unsustainable article growth. #AcademicPublishing 1/16 tinyurl.com/4k836545
The data are remarkable because they are so comprehensive – we downloaded data in Scimago for papers indexed on Web of Science ('16-'22) and Scopus for all the major publishers, and we scraped journal sites for turn around times. 2/16

Has @sciencemagazine been spoofed with a piece of satire? It has just published a letter about conservation ethics which is so bad that the most reasonable explanation for it is that it is a cunning fake. See bit.ly/2BScAKX 1/12 The letter advocates militarised conservation because it is so good for conservation. I disagree, but recognise that reasonable people can argue thus. However the quality of the writing, scholarship and other claims in this letter mean it cannot be taken seriously. 2/12