A look back at 2024 and ahead to 2025
As always around the turn of the year, I reflect on the past (or passing) year and the new (or upcoming) year in my blog. A look back at 2024…
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Scientific Publishing: Quality Control, Review, and Impact Measurement
On December 17, 2024, I delivered a workshop on “Scientific Publishing: Quality Control, Review, and Impact Measurement” at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences. The event gave participants a comprehensive…
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Revolutionising Research Assessment: The Role of CRIS, Open Science, and AI
The evaluation of scientific research is undergoing a seismic shift, driven by the integration of Current Research Information Systems (CRIS), Open Science principles, and Artificial Intelligence (AI). In our recent…
Publishing an Open Access anthology — navigating costs and author expectations
In 2020, Joachim Schöpfel and I planned to publish an anthology on research data, focussing on topics such as fake data (including AI-generated data), their detection, data markets, data reuse…
Publication Strategies, Open Science, and Open Access
On November 12, 2024, I had the pleasure of delivering a workshop titled “Scientific Publishing: Publication Strategies, Open Science, and Open Access” at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences. This…
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Balancing Aspirations and Outcomes – A Critical Look at Open Access Policies and Their Evolution
On October 22, 2024, I delivered a keynote lecture at the LundOnline Conference 2024 (not surprisingly held in Lund, Sweden) titled Balancing Aspirations and Outcomes – A Critical Look at…
Open Divide – Critical Studies on Open Access 2018
The book “Open Divide: Critical Studies on Open Access” edited by Joachim Schöpfel and me, Ulrich Herb, was published in 2018. It features contributions from various authors, including Richard Poynder,…
Plan S: Mixed Outcomes in Advancing Open Access Publishing
Plan S, an initiative by European funders to increase open access to journal articles, has led to progress, but not in the way originally intended. Although it aimed to dismantle…
On Diamond Open Access & Transformative Agreements
In September, a journalistic article on Diamond Open Access (by Wolfgang Benedikt Schmal and myself) and a preprint on Transformative Open Access Agreements (by Laura Rothfritz, Wolfgang Benedikt Schmal, and…
Retractions in Web of Science and OpenAlex
The Summa Cum Fraude team dealt with retractions as part of a university project. As the person responsible for the open access repository at my university and member of this…