LSE Impact

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20 October 2026 10:49

💥New | Causal overclaiming is common, rising over time, and difficult to avoid ✍️ Calvin Isch #SocialScience #QuantitativeMethods #AcademicSky

Jennifer Byrne

jabyrnesci.bsky.social

17 October 2026 03:57

Online by @baptscc.bsky.social @aidybarnett.bsky.social and David Causeur Suspected distortion of citations in high-impact cancer journals 🧪 #PaperMills that produce & sell manuscripts may be manipulating citations, but the extent of any manipulation is unknown. 1/5 www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....

Melinda Baldwin

mbaldwin.bsky.social

15 October 2026 17:56

I am absolutely delighted to announce that the open access version of "In Referees We Trust? How Peer Review Became a Mark of Scientific Legitimacy" is now live! Want to know more about how scholars' lives came to be ruled by Reviewer 2? Download the book FREE at: direct.mit.edu/books/monogr...

Samuel Moore

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12 October 2026 10:10

Only a financial journalist would look at academic publishing and think "what that sector needs is more mergers and private equity" to deal with the mess that financialisation has caused. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Emma Molls

emmamolls.bsky.social

12 October 2026 10:10

We’re always another merger away from fixing academic publishing. I’m sure everyone will be served best when we’re left with a single commercial publisher.