Paolo Crosetto
@PaoloCrosetto
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Experimental economist • Senior Researcher @INRAE_france • Food labeling • Risk • Open licenses • R enthusiast @[email protected]
Grenoble, France
Joined March 2012
I left X a while ago. I kept my account here, but this is my first tweet in months -- and my last. You should leave. I seldom tell others what they should do. And I don't matter. But I think X has become a loudspeaker for people that are against democracy. Just leave.
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RT @mitpress: As the volume of published articles outpaces the number of practicing scientists, academics are increasingly overwhelmed. Whe….
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Abstract. Scientists are increasingly overwhelmed by the volume of articles being published. The total number of articles indexed in Scopus and Web of Science has grown exponentially in recent years;...
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Social scientist hive mind, data privacy question:. does anyone know if @Prolific provides experimenters directly the prolific ID of subjects or creates a new ID for each experiment?. If I ran 2 experiments & I happened to have the same subject, would I know that by comparing ID?.
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RT @INRAE_Lyon_Gre: #VendrediLecture . ❓ Les politiques de prix et les politiques d’affichage incitent-elles les consommateurs à des achats….
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RT @INRAE_France: #RP_INRAE Quelles politiques pour des achats alimentaires plus sains ? 🛒.Des chercheurs en économie ont mené une étude ex….
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Come minimo ha una sfiga da primato.
Il regime di Assad è crollato. Non si sa che succederà in Siria nel futuro ma una cosa è certa. La decisione di riaprire l’ambasciata italiana a Damasco il 20/11 è un gigantesco errore di valutazione che devasta la credibilità della nostra politica estera. Tajani deve risponderne.
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RT @LaboratoireGael: La 46e Conférence internationale de l'@IA4EE a lieu à Paris du 15 au 18 juin 2025 et a pour thème :.Energy Solutions f….
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RT @PaoloCrosetto: We churn out more & more papers *per scientist*, at an increasing pace, in a rapidly changing publication landscape. Wh….
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RT @squazzoni: I've received a 400k offer for @JASSSJournal by a publisher. Without increasing the number of articles and the current journ….
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RT @ignaziano: ***NEW PREPRINT ALERT***. Resource-specific Generosity.w/@peggyjliu and @PaoloCrosetto . https://t.c….
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Worried about where to publish next, as your target journal could turn into a paper-churning machine putting the perceived value of your work at risk? . Head off to our Strain explorer, where you can see & compare metrics for any journal of interest:.
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Want to know more? . We have a website collecting all our slides, all mentions from the international press (LeMonde, ElPais, Science, L'Exprès, SwissInfo. ).
the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io
Home page for the paper ‘The Strain on Scientific Publishing’ by Mark A Hanson, Dan Brockington, Paolo Crosetto and Pablo Gomez Barreiro
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This is why the Economist, Le Monde, El Pais care. You should care too. Because the problem is that polluting the commons might lead to erosion of trust. It's happening. Losing trust in science it because of short-term profits sucks.
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Concerns about some of their business models are building
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Some publisher add to the strain more than others. But the problem is general. Who would have thought that instilling a publish-or-perish culture in scientists while moving to an earn-money-by-the-paper business model for publishers would have led to an explosion of papers?
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So, overall we observe a strained system, with . - more papers per scientists.- incredibly fast turnaround times.- mostly in special issues.- all publishers pump IF up. And this costs increasing amounts of money, as the author-pay model spreads.
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But *if* publishers are letting in a ton of low-quality papers, surely their Impact Factor would go down. The system self-corrects. Unless there was a way to inflate the IF. We measure "Impact Inflation" -- an indirect measure of IF "pumping" -- and it's gone up. Everywhere.
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At for-profit OA publishers, peer review has been streamlined & turned into an industry. Not only times went down; their variance collapsed. This is *not* bad news, per se: it sucks to wait for an inefficient system. But if all papers take the same time, something is off.
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Papers are also published faster. "But that's a good thing!" yes, up to a point. Losing valuable months waiting for referee 2 sucks. A system that lets in low-quality papers in a few days with minimal review sucks more. Here are turnaround times by publisher. Spot the trends.
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The extent of the success of the SI model has resulted in the very meaning of words changing. Publishing in a "Special Issue" circa 2017 meant somethng; circa 2021 meant something else completely. Some journals are now just collections of loose hundreds of "special" issues.
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This has been especially true for MDPI, who pioneered the special-issue model, going from a few SIs per journal *per year* to a few SIs per journal *per day* starting in about 2018 and through 2023. Other for-profit, OA publishers like Frontiers and the late Hindawi followed.
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