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Ubuntu philosophy is a better way to represent scholarly contributions in African academia.
Peer review is an important step after a researcher has carried out a scientific study but before it gets published by a journal and shared with the world.
When is it acceptable to use AI in academic publishing?
A study of over 8,000 articles in top economics journals finds that authors with Chinese surnames are 14% less likely to be cited.
Peer review ensures the findings of research are trustworthy. But what happens when it’s performed by an AI model?
The world’s library of scientific papers is becoming contaminated as fraudsters use ‘paper mills’ to game scholarly publishing for profit.
Science sleuths are stepping up efforts to detect bogus science papers. This includes building tools that comb through millions of journal articles for signs of tortured phrases spawned by AI.
‘Paper mills’ are contaminating the world’s scholarly output with fake papers that hinder research. Lifesaving biomedical fields are especially hard hit.
Quantitative indicators fall short of recognising and rewarding the many aspects on which a healthy scholarly ecosystem depends.
ChatGPT and other AI writing tools can make researchers more productive – but quality control is essential.
Science rankings rely on papers in academic journals. Broadening the view to include many more open-access journals will upend the usual order – thanks to China’s vast number of publications.
Paper mills rely on the desperation of researchers to fuel their business model.
Pressure to ‘publish or perish’ and get results out as quickly as possible has led to weak study designs and shortened peer-review processes.
Secondary publishing rights could facilitate immediate open access to publicly funded research and foster global innovation and discovery.
Studies of African multilingual contexts are almost non-existent in high-impact scientific journals.
Some open access journals — those that don’t charge their readers a fee — require that researchers pay to publish with them. Removing author fees helps more researchers to publish their work.
Rwandan authors have long been sidelined in debates about Rwanda and other conflict-affected societies.
Expectations that academics raise funds themselves and aim to publish in certain ‘quality’ publications are shaping research and where it is published.
Philosopher Peter Singer has helped launch a new, pseudonymous journal for the discussion of unpopular views. Will this be a boon for free inquiry, or a way for researchers to shirk responsibility?
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Professor of Computer Science, Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)
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Professor of Computer Science, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse
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Contributing editor, Retraction Watch
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Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
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Previous Vice President of the Academy of Science of South Africa and DSI-NRF SARChI chair in Fungal Genomics, Professor in Genetics, University of Pretoria, University of Pretoria
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University Librarian and Vice Provost for Digital Scholarship, University of California, Davis
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Professor of Management, University of Johannesburg
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Professor of Higher Education, Rhodes University, South Africa, Rhodes University
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Matthew Flinders Professor of Global Ecology and Node Leader in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures, Flinders University
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Senior Research Fellow, Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria., University of Pretoria
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Professor of Zoology and Senior Research Fellow, Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria
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Professor of Philosophy of Science, Durham University
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Professor of Physics, University of Johannesburg
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Professor of Southeast Asian Studies, Australian National University
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Lecturer in Library Science, City St George's, University of London