Funder mandates introduced over the past four years have measurably shifted where researchers send their work, with the sharpest movement visible among mid-career authors in the physical sciences. The analysis draws on a corpus assembled fr…
The cross-publisher registry now covers reviewers in 148 countries, and early evidence suggests journals using it resolve reviewer-matching in roughly half the time. The analysis draws on a corpus assembled from institutional repositories, …
A longitudinal comparison of 240,000 paired preprints and published articles finds the citation gap has narrowed to under nine per cent, down from thirty-one per cent a decade ago. The analysis draws on a corpus assembled from institutional…
The agreement extends read-and-publish terms previously available only to the largest houses, and includes a fee cap indexed to institutional research output. The analysis draws on a corpus assembled from institutional repositories, preprin…
Repository operators report that automated licence tagging has cut downstream reuse disputes sharply, though retrospective coverage of older material remains patchy. The analysis draws on a corpus assembled from institutional repositories, …
Forty-two journals have adopted a shared reporting format covering geography, career stage and discipline, making board composition comparable across titles for the first time. The analysis draws on a corpus assembled from institutional rep…
This year's programme foregrounds infrastructure sustainability, with three days of workshops on repository federation and long-term preservation funding. The analysis draws on a corpus assembled from institutional repositories, preprint se…
Each hub runs an identical four-day curriculum, and all teaching materials are released openly so institutions can run the course independently afterwards. The analysis draws on a corpus assembled from institutional repositories, preprint s…
Sixty awards were made from a pool of over nine hundred applications, with two thirds going to researchers based outside the traditional funding centres. The analysis draws on a corpus assembled from institutional repositories, preprint ser…
The week centres on reviewer recognition, with sessions examining how contribution records feed into promotion and tenure decisions. The analysis draws on a corpus assembled from institutional repositories, preprint servers and publisher me…
The meeting produced a draft common timeline for investigation and notice publication, now open for community comment. The analysis draws on a corpus assembled from institutional repositories, preprint servers and publisher metadata feeds, …
The scheme places trained data stewards inside research groups, and the extension will cover a further four hundred institutions over two years. The analysis draws on a corpus assembled from institutional repositories, preprint servers and …
Signatories commit to disclosing any machine assistance in editorial assessment and to keeping final judgement with named human reviewers. The analysis draws on a corpus assembled from institutional repositories, preprint servers and publis…
The standard makes every substantive change to a published record visible and citable, addressing a long-standing gap in the scholarly record. The analysis draws on a corpus assembled from institutional repositories, preprint servers and pu…
The joint position paper sets out transitional support for learned societies whose income depends substantially on subscriptions. The analysis draws on a corpus assembled from institutional repositories, preprint servers and publisher metad…
The declaration asks institutions to stop using journal-level metrics as a proxy for the quality of individual contributions. The analysis draws on a corpus assembled from institutional repositories, preprint servers and publisher metadata …
The principles cover governance, funding transparency and exit planning for services the community has come to depend on. The analysis draws on a corpus assembled from institutional repositories, preprint servers and publisher metadata feed…
The response welcomes the deposit requirement but warns that the proposed embargo terms would undercut the policy's stated aims. The analysis draws on a corpus assembled from institutional repositories, preprint servers and publisher metada…
Matching on discipline, venue and author seniority, we estimate the citation premium attributable to open data deposit and find it concentrated in the first thirty months. The analysis draws on a corpus assembled from institutional reposito…
A queueing model fitted to four years of editorial logs shows that a small minority of reviewers absorb a disproportionate share of requests. The analysis draws on a corpus assembled from institutional repositories, preprint servers and pub…
Policy language remains highly heterogeneous, and in a third of cases the stated permissions conflict with the licence attached to the articles themselves. The analysis draws on a corpus assembled from institutional repositories, preprint s…
Coverage lags the sciences by a wide margin, driven largely by monograph and edited-volume publishing that existing identifier schemes handle poorly. The analysis draws on a corpus assembled from institutional repositories, preprint servers…
Of 412 replication attempts, just over half reproduced the original direction and significance, with data availability the strongest predictor of success. The analysis draws on a corpus assembled from institutional repositories, preprint se…
Manuscripts identical but for the author's stated affiliation country showed a measurable difference in desk-rejection probability. The analysis draws on a corpus assembled from institutional repositories, preprint servers and publisher met…
Three years after abolishing metric thresholds in recruitment, the faculty reports longer shortlisting but markedly better retention. The analysis draws on a corpus assembled from institutional repositories, preprint servers and publisher m…
The librarian behind a widely copied deployment explains what to build, what to buy, and what to refuse outright. The analysis draws on a corpus assembled from institutional repositories, preprint servers and publisher metadata feeds, and t…
After a decade in the chair, she argues that a fast, clear refusal serves authors better than a slow, hedged review. The analysis draws on a corpus assembled from institutional repositories, preprint servers and publisher metadata feeds, an…
A conversation about specialist statistical review, why journals rarely fund it, and what it catches when they do. The analysis draws on a corpus assembled from institutional repositories, preprint servers and publisher metadata feeds, and …
She describes the craft of compressing five years of work into two pages a minister will actually read. The analysis draws on a corpus assembled from institutional repositories, preprint servers and publisher metadata feeds, and the full da…
The migration took four years and touched every workflow; he explains what he would sequence differently. The analysis draws on a corpus assembled from institutional repositories, preprint servers and publisher metadata feeds, and the full …
An inventory of the services the research community depends on, their governance models and, in several cases, their alarmingly thin funding. The analysis draws on a corpus assembled from institutional repositories, preprint servers and pub…
List prices rose faster than inflation in every discipline surveyed, with the steepest increases at the most selective titles. The analysis draws on a corpus assembled from institutional repositories, preprint servers and publisher metadata…
Reviewer effort flows persistently from a broad base of institutions toward a narrow set of high-prestige journals. The analysis draws on a corpus assembled from institutional repositories, preprint servers and publisher metadata feeds, and…
Fewer than a third meet the baseline criteria for long-term preservation, and format migration planning is largely absent. The analysis draws on a corpus assembled from institutional repositories, preprint servers and publisher metadata fee…
Board composition has shifted measurably in the past five years, but editor-in-chief appointments have barely moved. The analysis draws on a corpus assembled from institutional repositories, preprint servers and publisher metadata feeds, an…
Formal software citation remains rare outside computational fields, though metadata tooling has removed most technical barriers. The analysis draws on a corpus assembled from institutional repositories, preprint servers and publisher metada…
The pressure to publish continuously produces more papers and less knowledge; the remedy is structural, not personal. The analysis draws on a corpus assembled from institutional repositories, preprint servers and publisher metadata feeds, a…
A review that blocks a flawed paper is worth more than ten that wave one through, and our incentive structures acknowledge neither. The analysis draws on a corpus assembled from institutional repositories, preprint servers and publisher met…
Composite indicators flatten exactly the variation that makes research assessment meaningful, and they are seductive because they are easy. The analysis draws on a corpus assembled from institutional repositories, preprint servers and publi…
Grant-funded services that lose their funding do not fail gracefully; the community inherits the wreckage. The analysis draws on a corpus assembled from institutional repositories, preprint servers and publisher metadata feeds, and the full…
Publication is not dissemination, and a literature nobody can navigate is a literature that does not function. The analysis draws on a corpus assembled from institutional repositories, preprint servers and publisher metadata feeds, and the …
Honest error and misconduct require different responses, and conflating them deters exactly the self-correction we claim to want. The analysis draws on a corpus assembled from institutional repositories, preprint servers and publisher metad…
Panels routinely make consequential judgements using indicators whose construction and limits they have never examined. The analysis draws on a corpus assembled from institutional repositories, preprint servers and publisher metadata feeds,…
Much of what we labelled irreproducible turns out to be under-specified: the method was never written down precisely enough to repeat. The analysis draws on a corpus assembled from institutional repositories, preprint servers and publisher …
Article-processing-charge models were designed around a funding structure the humanities simply do not have. The analysis draws on a corpus assembled from institutional repositories, preprint servers and publisher metadata feeds, and the fu…
Submission volume has roughly tripled while the reviewer pool has grown by a third; the arithmetic admits only a few outcomes. The analysis draws on a corpus assembled from institutional repositories, preprint servers and publisher metadata…
A well-designed study that finds nothing is not a failed study, and our publication norms remain stubbornly unable to say so. The analysis draws on a corpus assembled from institutional repositories, preprint servers and publisher metadata …
"Available on reasonable request" has an empirically dismal success rate, and journals have the leverage to stop accepting it. The analysis draws on a corpus assembled from institutional repositories, preprint servers and publisher metadata…
The author argues the editorial understates how far institutional inertia, rather than disagreement, explains slow adoption. The analysis draws on a corpus assembled from institutional repositories, preprint servers and publisher metadata f…
A recalculation excluding desk rejections changes the reported concentration ratio, though not the paper's central conclusion. The analysis draws on a corpus assembled from institutional repositories, preprint servers and publisher metadata…
Several substantial services were excluded by a sampling frame built on English-language registries alone. The analysis draws on a corpus assembled from institutional repositories, preprint servers and publisher metadata feeds, and the full…
The writer contends that in clinical fields the risks of premature dissemination have been too readily dismissed. The analysis draws on a corpus assembled from institutional repositories, preprint servers and publisher metadata feeds, and t…
An independent replication at two additional journals reports a smaller but still statistically detectable effect. The analysis draws on a corpus assembled from institutional repositories, preprint servers and publisher metadata feeds, and …
The signatory organisation sets out which commitments it has adopted in full and which remain under review. The analysis draws on a corpus assembled from institutional repositories, preprint servers and publisher metadata feeds, and the ful…
Two economists and a library director work through where the money actually goes, and who is cross-subsidising whom. The analysis draws on a corpus assembled from institutional repositories, preprint servers and publisher metadata feeds, an…
A frank account of the role, from metadata triage to the diplomacy of telling a professor their spreadsheet is unusable. The analysis draws on a corpus assembled from institutional repositories, preprint servers and publisher metadata feeds…
Three editors discuss the cases that do not fit either category, and how they decided. The analysis draws on a corpus assembled from institutional repositories, preprint servers and publisher metadata feeds, and the full dataset together wi…
A discovery-systems engineer on relevance ranking, and why citation count is a poor default sort order. The analysis draws on a corpus assembled from institutional repositories, preprint servers and publisher metadata feeds, and the full da…
Who maintains the scripts a field depends on once the graduate student who wrote them has left? The analysis draws on a corpus assembled from institutional repositories, preprint servers and publisher metadata feeds, and the full dataset to…
Journals that opened their reports discuss what changed — in tone, in length, and in who agreed to review. The analysis draws on a corpus assembled from institutional repositories, preprint servers and publisher metadata feeds, and the full…
An interactive atlas of open access share by country and discipline, with the underlying counts available for download. The analysis draws on a corpus assembled from institutional repositories, preprint servers and publisher metadata feeds,…
Distribution rather than mean: the tail is long, and the median conceals how bad the worst cases get. The analysis draws on a corpus assembled from institutional repositories, preprint servers and publisher metadata feeds, and the full data…
A chord diagram of who reviews for whom, revealing a pronounced and persistent asymmetry. The analysis draws on a corpus assembled from institutional repositories, preprint servers and publisher metadata feeds, and the full dataset together…
Prices for 6,400 journals, normalised to constant currency, released openly with full provenance notes. The analysis draws on a corpus assembled from institutional repositories, preprint servers and publisher metadata feeds, and the full da…
Two lines that have been diverging since 2016, and a projection that should worry every editor. The analysis draws on a corpus assembled from institutional repositories, preprint servers and publisher metadata feeds, and the full dataset to…
Search any repository and see its preservation commitments, audit status and funding horizon. The analysis draws on a corpus assembled from institutional repositories, preprint servers and publisher metadata feeds, and the full dataset toge…
A ninety-minute practical session working from real funder templates, with the worked examples released afterwards. The analysis draws on a corpus assembled from institutional repositories, preprint servers and publisher metadata feeds, and…
What a non-specialist reviewer can reasonably check, and the three questions that catch most problems. The analysis draws on a corpus assembled from institutional repositories, preprint servers and publisher metadata feeds, and the full dat…
Environment capture, dependency pinning and the minimum documentation that makes a repository reusable. The analysis draws on a corpus assembled from institutional repositories, preprint servers and publisher metadata feeds, and the full da…
Two negotiators walk through a real deal, including the terms they conceded and the ones they refused. The analysis draws on a corpus assembled from institutional repositories, preprint servers and publisher metadata feeds, and the full dat…
A procedural walkthrough from first report to published notice, with attention to author due process. The analysis draws on a corpus assembled from institutional repositories, preprint servers and publisher metadata feeds, and the full data…
A practical clinic on the accessibility failures most common in scholarly publishing platforms, and how to fix them. The analysis draws on a corpus assembled from institutional repositories, preprint servers and publisher metadata feeds, an…