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Alberto Martín

@albertomartin.bsky.social
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Associate professor at University of Granada (Spain), Dept #InformationScience & #LibraryScience. Interested in #bibliometrics, #scholarlycommunication, #openscience.

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Alberto Martín @albertomartin.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Esta semana presentamos nuestro trabajo sobre revistas vendidas a editoriales depredadoras en la Universidad de Salamanca. La presentación está disponible en Zenodo: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
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Alberto Martín @albertomartin.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
¿De qué me suena esto...?
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The Open Notebook @theopennotebook.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Journalists can’t control the narratives others spin from their stories, but they can ensure their reporting provides an accurate picture of the issue at hand. A guide from @cathleenogrady.bsky.social, with @richvn.bsky.social, @manuelansede.bsky.social, @fleerackers.bsky.social and others. 🧪
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Reporting on Flaws in Science in an Era of Mistrust - The Open Notebook
Science journalism that reports on flaws in the scientific process operates in a fraught environment, with attacks on science and scientists worldwide and increasing concern about public mistrust in s...
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Reese Richardson @reeserichardson.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Great piece by @cathleenogrady.bsky.social ! Featuring words from a number of level heads, including @manuelansede.bsky.social @jbakcoleman.bsky.social @richvn.bsky.social @jacksonwryan.com and others.
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Alberto Martín @albertomartin.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
⚠️ After being delisted from WoS and Scopus, and after the editor in chief announced its end, the journal Profesional de la Información is offline. Its DOIs no longer resolve and articles are inaccessible, except for repository copies. A serious preservation issue affecting its authors and readers.
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Manuel Ansede @manuelansede.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
An analysis of 100,000 special issues of academic journals reveals that one in eight is filled with articles written by the guest editor, particularly at the publisher MDPI. Thousands of scientists inflate their CVs this way: english.elpais.com/science-tech...
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Thousands of scientists inflate their CVs with self-published studies that cost millions of dollars of public money
An analysis of 100,000 special issues of academic journals reveals that one in eight is filled with articles written by the editor, particularly at the publisher MDPI
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Alberto Martín @albertomartin.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
"Cuando se conoció que la revista había sido expulsada de la Web of Science y de Scopus, los autores que tenían manuscritos en proceso de revisión los retiraron" exitoeducativo.net/tomas-baiget...
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Tomàs Baiget: "Las grandes editoriales científicas no son un monopolio, pero casi" - ÉXITO EDUCATIVO
El emblemático cierre de la revista científica ‘El Profesional de la Información’ marca el final de una era en el campo de la documentación, la
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Alberto Martín @albertomartin.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
A proposal for journals to adopt externally audited quality management systems (e.g. ISO 9001), aiming to improve the lack of transparency, effectiveness, and potential conflicts of interest in current journal evaluation bodies. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Put pressure on publishers to follow best practice — external regulation is the answer
Journals that work hard to meet the needs of both authors and readers should be acknowledged publicly — encouraging others to follow suit.
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Alberto Martín @albertomartin.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Para mí también es un sinsentido que los CRIS estén downstream de las bases de datos, y no al revés. Las entidades de investigación deberían ser las primeras en enterarse (y registrar) lo que publican sus empleados, no las últimas
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Alberto Martín @albertomartin.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
It’s been a few months since I was last able to export full cited-reference lists from Scopus. This is quite inconvenient for following up on the issue of stealth journal takeovers, which remains invisible in other data sources 🤷‍♂️
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Alberto Martín @albertomartin.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Coverage of this journal was paused in Web of Science about a year ago. Crossref shows 8,475 DOIs minted in 2024 and only 2,748 in 2025, just 32% of the previous year. Another reminder that Impact Factors, rather than serving specific research communities, are driving publication choices.
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EL País Unofficial @elpais.skyfleet.blue · 28/11/2025
The fall of a prolific science journal exposes the billion-dollar profits of scientific publishing
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The fall of a prolific science journal exposes the billion-dollar profits of scientific publishing
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Manuel Ansede @manuelansede.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
La caída de una megarrevista científica expone el pelotazo de las editoriales en la ciencia. Una de las cabeceras que más estudios publican en el mundo ha sido expulsada del sistema por irregularidades. Su editorial, Elsevier, gana 1.300 millones al año: elpais.com/ciencia/2025...
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La caída de una megarrevista científica expone el pelotazo de las editoriales en la ciencia
Una de las cabeceras que más estudios publican en el mundo, expulsada del sistema por irregularidades. Su editorial, Elsevier, supera los 1.300 millones de euros de beneficios al año
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Alberto Martín @albertomartin.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Despite Scopus deciding to discontinue coverage for most of the journals in our journal snatchers study, some of them still remain covered, including Vascular and Endovascular Review. Coincidentally, this journal indexed 400 new studies in Scopus in the last week alone, some clearly out of scope:
Title of article published in journal Vascular & Endovascular Review: Empowering Voices: Gender Realities and Female Resilience in Sucha Murty's Literary Narratives
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Aaron Tay @aarontay.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Google Scholar gets into "AI powered" space Assuming this can use all the full-text they have indexed this might be a game changer. The timing of this release maybe suggests Gemini 3 is being used? scholar.googleblog.com/2025/11/scho... . Apparently some hit a waitlist, I have access though (1)
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Scholar Labs: An AI Powered Scholar Search
Research questions are often detailed. Answering them can require looking at a topic from multiple angles. Today, we are introducing Scholar...
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Alberto Martín @albertomartin.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Hoy he tenido el placer de participar en una mesa redonda sobre malas prácticas en comunicación científica en el marco de la Asamblea Anual de la UNE. Muchas gracias por la invitación! www.youtube.com/live/sljOPyB...
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Jornadas de formación | ASAMBLEA ANUAL UNE 2025
YouTube video by Unión de Editoriales Universitarias Españolas
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Alberto Martín @albertomartin.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Scopus has discontinued over a dozen additional journals included in our "Invasion of the journal snatchers" analysis. A fast reaction time by bibliographic databases is crucial for defusing the business model of stealth journal transfers. zenodo.org/records/1476... and zenodo.org/records/1521...
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Alberto Martín @albertomartin.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Este jueves estaré en Zaragoza debatiendo sobre cómo actuar frente a malas prácticas y fraude en la comunicación científica, con @amdelvaz.bsky.social , Iratxe Puebla y Reme Pérez, en la Asamblea Anual de la UNE. Será emitido: www.youtube.com/live/sljOPyB... Primera pregunta: ¿Se quiere actuar?
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Alberto Martín @albertomartin.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
In today’s pay-to-publish model where every paper lands somewhere, rejection just means another publisher profits. That's why publishers are building multi-tier journal ecosystems.
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Alberto Martín @albertomartin.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
La Trahison des bases de données
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Alberto Martín @albertomartin.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Los tres trabajos con señales manifiestas de ser fraudulentos, que ya no están en la web de la revista, están indizados en Scopus 🤦
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Alberto Martín @albertomartin.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Aprovecho para recordar que mañana, Emilio Delgado López-Cózar y yo estaremos hablando de estos temas en la Universidad de Sevilla.
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Alberto Martín @albertomartin.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Este mes se ha sabido que otra revista española, la Revista Electrónica de Ciencia Penal y Criminología, con una trayectoria de 26 años bajo la dirección de un profesor de Derecho Penal de la Universidad de Granada, también fue transferida a Oxbridge Publishing House. doi.org/10.21428/cb6...
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Yet another problem for scholarly communication in criminology: The case of a Spanish journal turned into a paper mill
Founded in 1999, RECPC became one of the most influential Spanish-language journals in criminal law and criminology. After a 2024 change of management, articles of dubious authorship and quality linke...
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Alberto Martín @albertomartin.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Hoy una periodista científica ha escrito para preguntarnos si se podía fiar de un artículo publicado en una de las revistas vendidas a Oxbridge/OAText. Al mirarlo, comprobamos que se había publicado antes de la venta. El daño reputacional puede afectar retroactivamente.
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𝖳𝗁𝖾𝖬𝖾𝗍𝖺𝖭𝖾𝗐𝗌 @themeta.news · 03/10/2025
🟢 Vos revues profanées Des revues de référence qui se mettent à publier en masse des articles louches et à augmenter leur frais de publication ? Au moins sept revues françaises seraient passées aux mains d’obscurs éditeurs. On vous explique 👇 themeta.news/linvasion-de... #VeilleESR
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Alberto Martín @albertomartin.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
L’invasion des profanateurs de revue, par @lucileveissier.bsky.social dans @themeta.news Merci de mettre en lumière ce phénomène. themeta.news/linvasion-de...
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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 · 02/10/2025
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...
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Alberto Martín @albertomartin.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
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 · 08/09/2025
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 · 01/09/2025
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 · 08/08/2025
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...
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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 · 05/08/2025
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 $€£.
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Alberto Martín @albertomartin.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
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.
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Alberto Martín @albertomartin.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
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...
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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 · 02/06/2025
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 · 02/06/2025
TH: @albertomartin.bsky.social
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Alberto Martín @albertomartin.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
This piece from @forbetterscience.bsky.social is gold: it reveals how paper mills operate from the inside. Apparently, long non-coding RNAs are a recurring topic in paper mills. Interestingly, that’s the focus of a recent article in Profesional de la Información: forbetterscience.com/2025/05/19/a...
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Alberto Martín @albertomartin.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
In April, Scopus announced it would discontinue coverage of the 36 journals analysed in our Invasion of the Journal Snatchers study. www.nature.com/articles/d41... doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
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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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Reese Richardson @reeserichardson.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
New blog post in which I: 📈 detail a new citations-for-sale scheme in Google Scholar 🧻 make the 395 fake papers generated through this scheme available as a dataset 💤 chastise Google for failing to maintain the most widely used academic search engine Enjoy! reeserichardson.blog/2025/05/06/g...
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Google Scholar is (still) doing nothing about citation manipulation
Detailing yet another citation manipulation scheme in Google Scholar
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Alberto Martín @albertomartin.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
La revista Profesional de la Información (PI) es de las pocas revistas analizadas en “Invasion of the journal snatchers” que siguió generando DOI tras ser transferida a una editorial cuestionable a finales de 2023. Esto parece positivo, pero analicemos el caso. 🧵👇 doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
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Alberto Martín @albertomartin.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
My mother would like a word.
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Alberto Martín @albertomartin.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Nature highlights our study "Invasion of the Journal Snatchers" www.nature.com/articles/d41... Our study: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... Below, a few comments on the reactions from editors and bibliographic database managers regarding the issue 👇🧵
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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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Dalmeet Singh Chawla @dalmeet.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Invasion of the ‘journal snatchers’: journals that adopt predatory practices after being acquired — My latest for @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/d41... @abalkina.bsky.social, @albertomartin.bsky.social, @smutclyde.bsky.social
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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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Alberto Martín @albertomartin.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
One consequence of questionable publishers starting to use fake DOIs in the journals they acquire is that it prevents readers from commenting on those papers through platforms like PubPeer (which relies on DOIs), making it harder to flag other issues the articles might have. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
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Alberto Martín @albertomartin.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
💡 New study! Tell-tale signs of stealth journal takeovers: A bibliometric approach to detecting questionable publisher acquisitions doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
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Alberto Martín @albertomartin.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Parece que la revista Profesional de la Información se ha sumado a la práctica de mostrar DOI falsos (no registrados) y propagar esta información a bases de datos bibliográficas (Scopus): doi.org/10.3145/epi.... doi.org/10.3145/epi....
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Alberto Martín @albertomartin.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Torrentes de bibliometría
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Ludo Waltman @ludowaltman.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
I just published a blog post arguing that the reform movements for research assessment and scientific publishing need to better align their agendas. This is crucial for the success of both movements. www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/ass... @leidenmadtrics.bsky.social
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Assessment reform and publishing reform need to go hand in hand
The need to reform research assessment and scientific publishing practices is widely recognized. However, Ludo Waltman argues that the assessment and publishing reform movements will be successful onl...
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Alberto Martín @albertomartin.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
The proposals presented here to combat image manipulation in scholarly publications strongly remind me of records management.
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