“No we can’t ‘just do [X]’. It’s more complicated than that”
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“No we can’t ‘just do [X]’. It’s more complicated than that”
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Wolverine or Lobo and Animal
Thing, Moon Knight, Kitty Pryde, & Ragman lighting the menorah
Editors are ultimately responsible for what gets accepted and published.
Not reviewers. Not authors.
30 years in journal publishing and have worked with hundreds of journals and have never seen any of them charge an author for cover images. Not saying it doesn’t happen, but I’ve never seen it.
Good journals (and good editors), and there are plenty that I love, do much more than peer review
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Werewolf by Night and Little Red Riding Hood or the 3 little pigs
Great choice! Best of luck!
Reviewer three major revision
Journal TOCs do allow occasional serendipitous discoveries other strategies don't yet enable. Meanwhile, highlights, reviews, news & views, etc. do point to things one should read, and I see a continued role for journals in curation 2/n
The Death of the LGBTQ+ Suicide Prevention Line scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/09/29/t...
I tried getting this off the ground over 10 years ago. I was ahead of my time! :-)
"there is a step in the (...) process which is highly accurate. It’s slow, error-prone, and expensive, but it is spectacularly good at identifying problematic research: that step is called "peer review".
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Red Tornado and Vision
Green Arrow and Hawkeye
In today's post from ORIGINal Thoughts, KGL's Adam Etkin discusses the essential questions every publisher should be asking to ensure alignment, anticipate challenges, and foster a partnership that drives impact.
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New from yours truly! 10 Questions a #Publisher Should Ask the Editorial Office/Society @kwgloballtd.bsky.social #journals #stm
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Tomorrow! Not too late to register!
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Join the Wilderness Medical Society for a live webinar discussing Space Medicine & Health Systems!
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This post from ORIGINal Thoughts offers a timely overview of the tools publishers and editors can use to uphold research integrity—from identifying manipulated images and fabricated data to detecting papermill submissions and peer-review fraud.
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“..turning the USA from the leader in science to an ideologically anti-scientific backwater of quackery and pseudoscience,"
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I’ve known Adrian for years & couldn’t be happier about this!
Frontiers to retract 122 articles, links thousands in other publishers’ journals to “unethical” network
retractionwatch.com/2025/07/29/f...
❓Is it time to pay peer reviewers?
In today’s post from ORIGINal Thoughts, author Zen Faulkes addresses a commonly posited solution to the reviewer shortage—compensating reviewers.
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Empire Strikes Back
Galactus Strikes Back
