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Michael Fenichel<p>This came as a response to my post on the heat (with "For What It's Worth") &amp; the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TrumpVirus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpVirus</span></a> warmongering &amp; madness: </p><p>&gt; "Adolf builds a bonfire, Enrico plays with it"</p><p>yup </p><p>&gt; Games Without Frontiers <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xZmlUV8muY" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=3xZmlUV8muY</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> </p><p>All hail our Führer, Toddler King of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Brainspurs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Brainspurs</span></a>, slayer of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Truth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Truth</span></a>, rights, &amp; <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/respect" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>respect</span></a>...</p><p>&gt; We're kissing baboons in the jungle<br>It's a knockout....<br>If looks could kill, they probably will<br>In games without frontiers, war without tears</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>music</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/war" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>war</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/borders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>borders</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/frontiers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>frontiers</span></a></p>
Pedro J. Hdez<p>Frontiers is doing an immense job of publishing articles that are very understandable to almost anyone. Other publications should take note. </p><p>In this case, you can read the introduction and discussion and get much better information than from any press release about the study.</p><p><a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/environmental-science/articles/10.3389/fenvs.2025.1563488/full" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">frontiersin.org/journals/envir</span><span class="invisible">onmental-science/articles/10.3389/fenvs.2025.1563488/full</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Frontiers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Frontiers</span></a> also have a publication for young minds that includes several articles on <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/microplastics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>microplastics</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://kids.frontiersin.org/articles?phrase=microplastics" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">kids.frontiersin.org/articles?</span><span class="invisible">phrase=microplastics</span></a></p>
50+ Music<p>"Only the Young" is a song written by <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/JonathanCain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JonathanCain</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/StevePerry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StevePerry</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/NealSchon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NealSchon</span></a> of the band <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Journey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Journey</span></a>. Previously intended for Journey's 1983 album <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Frontiers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Frontiers</span></a>, it was pulled from the album within days of recording in favor of songs "Back Talk" and "Troubled Child". It was then sold to the band <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Scandal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scandal</span></a>, who released it in 1984 on their album <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Warrior" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Warrior</span></a>, as the first commercially released version of the song. <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cl6Q9tKZxU8" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=Cl6Q9tKZxU8</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Bruce MacDonald<p>Noyes (is that no-yes?*) used to be an important road border crossing from the ox road days on, says the Wikipedia, but has been superseded by the freeway a few miles west, over in North Dakota.</p><p>"Today, Noyes is essentially a quiet community."<br><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noyes,_Minnesota" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noyes,_M</span><span class="invisible">innesota</span></a></p><p>*No; Noyes was named for a customs agent.</p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/PlaceNames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PlaceNames</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/frontiers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>frontiers</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Minnesota" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Minnesota</span></a></p>
50+ Music<p>"Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)" is a song performed by <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Journey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Journey</span></a>, recorded for their album <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Frontiers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Frontiers</span></a> and released as a single in January 1983. It peaked at number eight for six consecutive weeks on the <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Billboard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Billboard</span></a> Hot 100 chart, and spent four weeks at number one on the <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/TopTracks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TopTracks</span></a> chart. The song is also well known for its use in the film <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/TronLegacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TronLegacy</span></a> and in <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/seasonFour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>seasonFour</span></a> of <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/StrangerThings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StrangerThings</span></a>. To accompany the song on <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/MTV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MTV</span></a>, the band shot its first concept video. <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFgxMI_sO3M" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=aFgxMI_sO3M</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
50+ Music<p>"Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)" is a song performed by <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Journey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Journey</span></a>, recorded for their album <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Frontiers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Frontiers</span></a> and released as a single in January 1983. It peaked at number eight for six consecutive weeks on the <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Billboard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Billboard</span></a> Hot 100 chart, and spent four weeks at number one on the <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/TopTracks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TopTracks</span></a> chart. The song is also well known for its use in the film <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/TronLegacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TronLegacy</span></a> and in <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/seasonFour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>seasonFour</span></a> of <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/StrangerThings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StrangerThings</span></a>. To accompany the song on <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/MTV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MTV</span></a>, the band shot its first concept video. <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LatorN4P9aA" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=LatorN4P9a</span><span class="invisible">A</span></a></p>
Brian Jopek<p>Loon call contest photo assignment is mission complete. There was a little girl named Charlotte from Anchorage, Alaska who was actually pretty good. Now, a road jam for the trip back to the office. <br><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/MusicOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MusicOfMastodon</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/80sPop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>80sPop</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/ClassicRock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClassicRock</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Frontiers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Frontiers</span></a> <br><a href="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4UQrcMVAkOI" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">m.youtube.com/watch?v=4UQrcMVA</span><span class="invisible">kOI</span></a></p>
Ludo Waltman<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fediscience.org/@MarkHanson" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>MarkHanson</span></a></span></p><p>It's disappointing to see the way <a href="https://social.cwts.nl/tags/Frontiers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Frontiers</span></a> responded to your work. Unfortunately, the author of the Frontiers response is known for responding aggressively to criticism, or perceived criticism, of his company. This also happened in an earlier case: <a href="https://retractionwatch.com/2022/12/05/board-members-decry-their-own-journals-retraction-of-paper-on-predatory-publishers/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">retractionwatch.com/2022/12/05</span><span class="invisible">/board-members-decry-their-own-journals-retraction-of-paper-on-predatory-publishers/</span></a> (see the letter written by Frontiers).</p>
MAHanson<p>We still can’t release our scraped data publicly. Why? Publishers like <br><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Frontiers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Frontiers</span></a> would first need to authorize us to do so!</p><p>So if Frontiers will commit to data transparency, we’d be happy to share our data on them in public. 🤗</p><p>Cheers – all of us:<br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://econtwitter.net/@paolocrosetto" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>paolocrosetto</span></a></span>, <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fediscience.org/@pagomba" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>pagomba</span></a></span>, @danbrockington.bsky.social</p>
MAHanson<p>While the tone <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Frontiers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Frontiers</span></a><br> took was unfortunate, we'll try to think positively:<br> <br>1. Frontiers’ validate our study many times over 😊<br>2. Frontiers shared valuable data that we asked for ages ago, publicly </p><p>Indeed, <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Frontiers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Frontiers</span></a> makes us out to be "detractors" of open science (😂). That is why we are DISMAYED to announce something we’ve been working on during our article revisions: a “Strain Data Explorer” app‼️ <br><a href="https://pagoba.shinyapps.io/strain_explorer/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">pagoba.shinyapps.io/strain_exp</span><span class="invisible">lorer/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/SciPub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SciPub</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAccess</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/PeerReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PeerReview</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/AcademicChatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicChatter</span></a> 3/n</p>
MAHanson<p>Breaking it down, <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Frontiers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Frontiers</span></a>:<br> <br>1. say they sent us data – not true ❌<br>2. say they asked for our data – not true ❌<br>3. creates straw men – we never said what they claim of us 😞</p><p>But the coup de grâce: <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Frontiers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Frontiers</span></a> has performed a misleading analysis, made only more incredible because they not only confirm our findings; they incidentally* shared data that validate our web-scraped data to be within ~99% accuracy 💪</p><p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/SciPub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SciPub</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAccess</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/PeerReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PeerReview</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/ScientificPublishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScientificPublishing</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/AcademicChatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicChatter</span></a> 2/n</p>
MAHanson<p>We were surprised by a recent <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Frontiers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Frontiers</span></a> blog. They make derogatory statements, accuse us of data manipulation &amp; mischaracterize our comms with them. 😔</p><p>Critiques of our work are welcome. Falsehoods about us and our work are not. Here we set the record straight.<br><a href="https://the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/posts/response_to_frontiers/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">the-strain-on-scientific-publi</span><span class="invisible">shing.github.io/website/posts/response_to_frontiers/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/SciPub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SciPub</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAccess</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/PeerReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PeerReview</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/ScientificPublishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScientificPublishing</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/AcademicChatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicChatter</span></a> 1/n</p>
jonny (good kind)<p>If anyone wants to talk about "predatory publishers," youre looking at em. <a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/Frontiers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Frontiers</span></a> is nothing, they just play the game set up by the larger publishers. The call is coming from inside the house - <a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/RELX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RELX</span></a> is the one pushing higher article volumes every year. RELX is the one building the research intelligence platforms that set the value of research and researchers. Blaming <a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/MDPI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MDPI</span></a> and <a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/Hindawi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hindawi</span></a> and others not only misses the dynamics of the market, it plays directly into the big publisher's ad copy where they claim only they can protect Truth.</p>
petersuber<p>I'm grateful to authors who take the time to write up their stories of mistreatment by <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/journals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>journals</span></a> and <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/publishers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>publishers</span></a>.</p><p>The publicity can help in their own cases. It can help unknown authors who didn't have the same freedom to publicize their experience. It can help raise standards in publishing.</p><p>Here's <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/BobUttl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BobUttl</span></a> on the shabby and unprofessional behavior he faced from the journal, <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/%F0%9D%98%8D%F0%9D%98%B3%F0%9D%98%B0%F0%9D%98%AF%F0%9D%98%B5%F0%9D%98%AA%F0%9D%98%A6%F0%9D%98%B3%F0%9D%98%B4" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>𝘍𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘳𝘴</span></a> 𝘪𝘯 𝘗𝘴𝘺𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺.<br><a href="https://www.bobuttl.net/2024/02/12/when-did-a-rejection-of-an-already-accepted-article-become-a-thing/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bobuttl.net/2024/02/12/when-di</span><span class="invisible">d-a-rejection-of-an-already-accepted-article-become-a-thing/</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/ScholComm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScholComm</span></a></p>
jonny (good kind)<p>Too many ppl taking the wrong lessons from the three-balled rat "AI" generated <a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/frontiers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>frontiers</span></a> paper. The problem isnt "predatory publishers" or that one person didnt peer review hard enough. The problem is that we actively construct a system where companies make billions of dollars selling prestige vouchers academics have to buy to survive. If the for-profit journals didnt make the system a game, there would be nothing to play.</p><p>Frontiers is a symptom. Science, Cell, Nature, and the prestige treadmill they exploit us with is the disease.</p>
IT News<p>Scientists aghast at bizarre AI rat with huge genitals in peer-reviewed article - Enlarge / An actual laboratory rat, who is intrigued. (credit: Getty |... - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=2003885" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">arstechnica.com/?p=2003885</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/scientificpublishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scientificpublishing</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/midjourney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>midjourney</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/frontiers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>frontiers</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/rats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rats</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ai</span></a></p>
Daniel Caron<p>Just saw this review article in <a href="https://genomic.social/tags/frontiers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>frontiers</span></a> <a href="https://genomic.social/tags/celldevbio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>celldevbio</span></a> where authors appear to have used <a href="https://genomic.social/tags/generativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>generativeAI</span></a> to make their figures. <br> <br>Appaling that this made it past peer review, but at the same time ... it'd be a lot easier to memorize signaling cascades if everything just either JAK or STAT 😅</p><p><a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcell.2023.1339390/full" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">frontiersin.org/articles/10.33</span><span class="invisible">89/fcell.2023.1339390/full</span></a></p><p><a href="https://genomic.social/tags/cellbiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cellbiology</span></a></p>
JulietJFall<p>1970s TV archive on the Swiss border and border guards in Geneva, and on how rivers and bodies of water were used to help trace the borderline (weren't TV programmes slow paced back then? Rather refreshing!): <a href="https://www.rts.ch/archives/tv/information/la-suisse-est-belle/11280287-geneve-frontiere-deau.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">rts.ch/archives/tv/information</span><span class="invisible">/la-suisse-est-belle/11280287-geneve-frontiere-deau.html</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/geography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>geography</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/borders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>borders</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/frontiers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>frontiers</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/visualArchive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>visualArchive</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/visualMethods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>visualMethods</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Gen%C3%A8ve" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Genève</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/douaniers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>douaniers</span></a></p>
MAHanson<p>But it’s not just <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/MDPI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MDPI</span></a>: <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Frontiers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Frontiers</span></a> and <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Hindawi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hindawi</span></a> also grew their share of special issues. One might argue: “These are just labels publishers use. The peer review process is the same.”</p><p>Au contraire mon ami : no it’s not. Special issues have lower TATs. They’re intended to be lax. They’re for authors to voice ideas that could turn out to be wrong, but advance the conversation in the field. That’s what they used to be at least… and what made them “special.” But I digress… 7/n</p>
MAHanson<p>We see that certain groups are major drivers of this article growth, in some cases seemingly out of nothingness. This includes your classic publishers like <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Elsevier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Elsevier</span></a> and <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Springer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Springer</span></a>, but also the upstarts <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Frontiers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Frontiers</span></a> and… most significantly <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/MDPI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MDPI</span></a>.</p><p>In numbers, there were nearly 1 million more articles per year published in 2022 (2.8m) compared to 2016 (1.9m). MDPI takes the lion’s share at 27% of that growth, with Elsevier (16%) a distant 2nd.</p><p>How did we get to this point? 3/n</p>