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Alberto Martín @albertomartin.bsky.social · 5d

L’invasion des profanateurs de revue, par @lucileveissier.bsky.social dans @themeta.news
Merci de mettre en lumière ce phénomène. themeta.news/linvasion-de...

L’invasion des profanateurs de revue — TheMetaNews

Cet article est publié en partenariat avec l’association des responsables de l’information scientifique et technique des organismes de recherche français publics ou d’utilité publique (EPRIST) sous li...

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Alberto Martín @albertomartin.bsky.social · 6d

Sorpresa en una de las revistas vendidas: el equipo editorial de Profesional de la Información, borrado de la web en febrero (salvo el editor jefe), ha vuelto a aparecer tal como estaba a principios de año. ¿Lo saben las personas afectadas? revista.profesionaldelainformacion.com/index.php/EP...

Alberto Martín @albertomartin.bsky.social · 9d

El próximo 20 de octubre hablaremos con nuestros colegas del departamento de Comunicación Audiovisual y Publicidad de la Universidad de Sevilla, entre otras cosas, sobre venta de revistas, y revistas vendidas

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Alberto Martín @albertomartin.bsky.social · Sep 8

Truly grateful by the interest our presentation on stealth journal takeovers generated at the STI in Bristol last week. Thanks to everyone who approached me to discuss it during the conference! @stienid2025.bsky.social read the whole story at zenodo.org/records/1476... and zenodo.org/records/1521...

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Alberto Martín @albertomartin.bsky.social · Sep 2

Thank you Stefanie! Too bad you can't make it this year. Your thoughts would be incredibly welcome!

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Alberto Martín @albertomartin.bsky.social · Sep 1

First thing after the summer break: getting ready for Bristol, where I’ll present our work on stealth journal takeovers and their telltale signs at @stienid2025.bsky.social. Already available at doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

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Alberto Martín @albertomartin.bsky.social · Aug 14

Remindme! # 5 years

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Alberto Martín @albertomartin.bsky.social · Aug 14

Yes, I think this is a more reasonable guess than expecting a shutdown because it generates no revenue (it never was intended to), or AI alternatives (which have their own issues). And OpenAlex can be the hub that ties it all together, but more effort is needed for generating complete metadata.

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Alberto Martín @albertomartin.bsky.social · Aug 8

Once a leading journal in Library and Information Science in Spain and Latin America, Profesional de la Información has, since the transition, engaged in citation manipulation, lack of editorial transparency, and even shows signs of serving as a venue for paper mill outputs. Deeply disheartening.

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Alberto Martín @albertomartin.bsky.social · Aug 8

Coincidentally, the journal’s website also fails to reflect its new ownership. Editors of another journal acquired by OAText have stated that the company requested its name be withheld after the transition, suggesting that this concealment may be intentional. community.crossref.org/t/concerns-r...

Concerns regarding stealth journal transfers and DOI mismanagement

Concerns Regarding Stealth Journal Transfers and DOI Mismanagement Hello everyone, My name is Alberto Martín-Martín, and I’m a researcher in the field of bibliometrics and scholarly communication. A...

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Alberto Martín @albertomartin.bsky.social · Aug 8

As a result, Crossref metadata fails to reflect the change in ownership, misrepresenting the journal’s current publisher. Crossref has clear guidelines on how title ownership transfers should be handled: www.crossref.org/documentatio...

Transferring responsibility for titles and DOIs - Crossref

We enforce a concept of ownership for the titles you register through us. We allow members to freely register records for titles that do not yet exist in our system. Term 2c of our membership terms st...

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Alberto Martín @albertomartin.bsky.social · Aug 8

In a new Crossref Community post, I outline the unusual DOI management of the journal Profesional de la Información: despite being sold to OAText in late 2023, DOIs for its articles are still being registered by the former publisher. community.crossref.org/t/concerns-r...

Concerns regarding stealth journal transfers and DOI mismanagement

Concerns Regarding Stealth Journal Transfers and DOI Mismanagement Hello everyone, My name is Alberto Martín-Martín, and I’m a researcher in the field of bibliometrics and scholarly communication. A...

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Alberto Martín @albertomartin.bsky.social · Aug 5

Surprisingly, it even connects to our journal snatchers study by analyzing two of the journals we identified as linked to the Oxbridge Publishing House conglomerate, which they found listed on another site: ARDA, an "interdisciplinary conference organizer, research consultancy, and publisher".

Alberto Martín @albertomartin.bsky.social · Aug 5

Highly relevant article by @reeserichardson.bsky.social et al., once again providing evidence that fraudulent publication practices are becoming increasingly sophisticated and coordinated. Publishing fraud is no longer just a "bad apple" issue, but a market that moves millions of $€£.

Reese Richardson @reeserichardson.bsky.social · Aug 4

Today, our article "The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly" is finally published in PNAS. I hope that it proves to be a wake-up-call for the whole scientific community.

reeserichardson.blog/2025/08/04/a...

A do-or-die moment for the scientific enterprise

Reflecting on our paper “The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly”

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Alberto Martín @albertomartin.bsky.social · Jun 18

This list does not include journals that have been de-listed throughout the year, and therefore haven't received an IF either, right?

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Alberto Martín @albertomartin.bsky.social · Mar 17

The monthly changes file confirms these journals have been delisted from WoS, along with REVISTA ELECTRONICA DE LEEME, and EUROPEAN JOURNAL FOR PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION (which display similar anomalous publication patterns)

Alberto Martín @albertomartin.bsky.social · Jun 10

First they clone themselves (Nature X...), now they clone MDPI. The goal is to offer a tiered journal system that does not let manuscripts escape to other publishers' offerings. That would be like leaving money on the table.

Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · Jun 10

New from The Strain Team:
🎊 Springer Nature Discovers MDPI 🎊

Springer Nature has spawned a copycat journal series called "Discover" mimicking #MDPI journal titles and citation behaviours. We even made a browser game to prove it (see 🔗).

Gross! 😀 1/n

#ResearchIntegrity #SciPub #AcademicSky

Spinger Nature Discovers MDPI – The Strain on Scientific Publishing

Home page for the paper ‘The Strain on Scientific Publishing’ by Mark A Hanson, Dan Brockington, Paolo Crosetto and Pablo Gomez Barreiro

the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io

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Alberto Martín @albertomartin.bsky.social · Jun 8

Perhaps Mercury Open Access: not solid, and toxic

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Alberto Martín @albertomartin.bsky.social · Jun 7

Qué bien, estaba buscando una nueva foto de perfil

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Alberto Martín @albertomartin.bsky.social · Jun 2

Some journals with unusual patterns are still adding large volumes of articles to Scopus. For example, Edelweiss Applied Science and Technology indexed 46 articles last week, similar to the two weeks before, and totaling 834 documents so far during the current publication year.

Alberto Martín @albertomartin.bsky.social · Jun 2

A trickle of articles from the 36 journals analyzed in our Invasion of the Journal Snatchers study continues to be indexed in Scopus each week, despite their official statement claiming these titles had been discontinued www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Invasion of the ‘journal snatchers’: the firms that buy science publications and turn them rogue

Study finds dozens of journals that have hiked their fees and started churning out papers after being acquired by small, recently formed companies.

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Anna Abalkina @abalkina.bsky.social · Jun 2

Question. I see a lot of papers with the same design of a Figure (see the picture). Is there a specific software for drawing this kind of figure? I wonder why there are similar figures from different authors that are not connected with each other.

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Anna Abalkina @abalkina.bsky.social · Jun 2

TH: @albertomartin.bsky.social

Anna Abalkina @abalkina.bsky.social · Jun 2

LOL! the table from the paper has also columns called Mini and Maxi. I guess they messed with the skirt length instead of min and max values!!!

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Alberto Martín @albertomartin.bsky.social · Jun 2

Not gonna lie, I was today years old when I learned that skirt lengths have standardised names 😅

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Alberto Martín @albertomartin.bsky.social · Jun 2

Yes, a good case for the GRIM test perhaps. This journal was acquired by a new publisher, a fact still undisclosed on its website. I believe these takeovers are a way to streamline the paper mill model: if the paper mill owns the journal, there's no need to bribe editors.