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MC Squared @mcsquared.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
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Dan Brockington @danbrockington.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Profits from scientific publishing are eye-watering, costing us billions. In ‘The Drain of Scientific Publishing’ (arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820), (building on ‘The Strain of Scientific Publishing’ doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00327) we show how it is harmful – and unnecessary.
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The Drain of Scientific Publishing
The domination of scientific publishing in the Global North by major commercial publishers is harmful to science. We need the most powerful members of the research community, funders, governments and ...
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Dan Brockington @danbrockington.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Are you puzzled and struggling with scientific publishing. Are pressed and stressed about the process, and worried about how much it costs? Then please read this fanastic thread from Mark Hanson
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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing: a 🧵 1/n Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
A table showing profit margins of major publishers. A snippet of text related to this table is below.

1. The four-fold drain
1.1 Money
Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for
whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who
created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis,
which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024
alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit
margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher
(Elsevier) always over 37%.
Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most
consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial
difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor &
Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American
researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The
Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3
billion in that year.A figure detailing the drain on researcher time.

1. The four-fold drain

1.2 Time
The number of papers published each year is growing faster than the scientific workforce,
with the number of papers per researcher almost doubling between 1996 and 2022 (Figure
1A). This reflects the fact that publishers’ commercial desire to publish (sell) more material
has aligned well with the competitive prestige culture in which publications help secure jobs,
grants, promotions, and awards. To the extent that this growth is driven by a pressure for
profit, rather than scholarly imperatives, it distorts the way researchers spend their time.
The publishing system depends on unpaid reviewer labour, estimated to be over 130 million
unpaid hours annually in 2020 alone (9). Researchers have complained about the demands of
peer-review for decades, but the scale of the problem is now worse, with editors reporting
widespread difficulties recruiting reviewers. The growth in publications involves not only the
authors’ time, but that of academic editors and reviewers who are dealing with so many
review demands.
Even more seriously, the imperative to produce ever more articles reshapes the nature of
scientific inquiry. Evidence across multiple fields shows that more papers result in
‘ossification’, not new ideas (10). It may seem paradoxical that more papers can slow
progress until one considers how it affects researchers’ time. While rewards remain tied to
volume, prestige, and impact of publications, researchers will be nudged away from riskier,
local, interdisciplinary, and long-term work. The result is a treadmill of constant activity with
limited progress whereas core scholarly practices – such as reading, reflecting and engaging
with others’ contributions – is de-prioritized. What looks like productivity often masks
intellectual exhaustion built on a demoralizing, narrowing scientific vision.A table of profit margins across industries. The section of text related to this table is below:

1. The four-fold drain
1.1 Money
Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for
whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who
created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis,
which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024
alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit
margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher
(Elsevier) always over 37%.
Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most
consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial
difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor &
Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American
researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The
Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3
billion in that year.The costs of inaction are plain: wasted public funds, lost researcher time, compromised
scientific integrity and eroded public trust. Today, the system rewards commercial publishers
first, and science second. Without bold action from the funders we risk continuing to pour
resources into a system that prioritizes profit over the advancement of scientific knowledge.
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Cvrine Cvrai @cvrine-cvrai.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Sarkozy : 2,5 millions de patrimoine en 2007, plus de 9 millions en 2025, ça paye bien d'entuber les Français et de détruire toute moralité, beau boulot, belle perf !
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Michaël Zemmour @michaelzemmour.cpesr.fr · 10/11/2025
Claire Mathieu: "Gouvernement et administrateurs doivent s'appliquer à eux-mêmes un principe de neutralité, et n'intervenir que pour protéger les débats, pas pour censurer ; et cela afin de protéger la liberté académique qui permet l’engagement en faveur de la vérité." lipn.info/@clairemathi...
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Sur l'annulation du colloque "La Palestine et l'Europe" au Collège de France: pour quelles raisons ? La lettre de l'administrateur dit que le Collège doit éviter tout "militantisme" et puis parle de p...
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France Universités @franceuniversites.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
France Universités exprime sa vive inquiétude après l’annulation d’un colloque scientifique au Collège de France. franceuniversites.fr/actualite/fr... #LibertéAcadémique
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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 09/11/2025
Demander l'annulation d'un concert politisé, c'est une attaque contre la liberté de programmation artistique, mais annuler un colloque au Collège de France, ce n'est pour son ministre de tutelle qu'une décision "responsable" 🙃
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Le Collège de France annule un colloque sur la Palestine « en réaction à la polémique entourant » l’événement
Le Collège de France « ne prône, ni n’encourage, ni ne soutient aucune forme de militantisme », a affirmé l’établissement qui assure de sa « stricte neutralité (…) au regard des questions de nature po...
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Crossref @crossref.org · 24/09/2025
25 years strong! Marin Dacos, one of our board members, shares their congratulations in this video. Let's ... www.canva.com/design/DAGsnR18d78/FL… #CrossrefAt25
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OPERAS Research Infrastructure @operaseu.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
#StrengtheningTrust #TacklingDisinformation | Niels Stern presents a practical perspective to tackle disinformation via DOAB and #PRISM. The PRISM service offers publishers the opportunity to showcase their quality assurance practices, highlighting their peer review processes. #ScienceSummit
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Vincent Lemire @vincent-lemire.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
• En conséquence l'IAGS appelle "les États membres de la CPI à coopérer avec la Cour et à remettre toute personne faisant l'objet d'un mandat d'arrêt".
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Vincent Lemire @vincent-lemire.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
• "La politique et les actions d'Israël à Gaza répondent à la définition juridique du génocide énoncée à l'article 2 de la Convention des Nations Unies pour la prévention et la répression du crime de génocide (1948)".
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Vincent Lemire @vincent-lemire.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
• EXTRAITS: "Le gouvernement israélien s'est rendu coupable de crimes contre l'humanité, de crimes de guerre et de crimes de génocide systématiques, notamment d'attaques aveugles et délibérées contre les civils et les infrastructures civiles (hôpitaux, habitations, bâtiments commerciaux).
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Vincent Lemire @vincent-lemire.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
À ce jour, ces attaques ont tué plus de 59.000 adultes et enfants à Gaza. Ces bombardements et autres violences ont fait plus de 143.000 blessés, dont de nombreux mutilés".
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Vincent Lemire @vincent-lemire.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
• "Israël a tué ou blessé plus de 50.000 enfants et la destruction d'une partie importante de ce groupe constitue un génocide". • "Ces crimes ont laissé des milliers de personnes ensevelies sous les décombres et inaccessibles, très probablement mortes.
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Vincent Lemire @vincent-lemire.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
• "Les actions du gouvernement israélien contre les Palestiniens incluent la torture, la détention arbitraire et les violences sexuelles; les attaques délibérées contre des professionnels de la santé, les travailleurs humanitaires et les journalistes ; …
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Vincent Lemire @vincent-lemire.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
… la privation délibérée de nourriture, d'eau, de médicaments et d'électricité, essentielles à la survie de la population, entraînant la famine chez les Palestiniens de Gaza".
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Vincent Lemire @vincent-lemire.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
• "Israël a déplacé de force la quasi-totalité des 2,3 millions d'habitants à plusieurs reprises et a démoli plus de 90 % des habitation du territoire".
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Vincent Lemire @vincent-lemire.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
• "Le Premier ministre israélien Benjamin Netanyahou a approuvé le plan visant à expulser de force tous les Palestiniens de la bande de Gaza, sans droit au retour".
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Vincent Lemire @vincent-lemire.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
• "Les dirigeants du gouvernement israélien, les ministres du cabinet de guerre et les hauts gradés de l'armée ont fait des déclarations explicites d'"intention de détruire", qualifiant l'ensemble des habitants d'"animaux humains", affirmant leur intention d'"anéantir Gaza".
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Vincent Lemire @vincent-lemire.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
>> Ne vous contentez pas des extraits relayés par la presse ce soir, lisez et partagez la résolution complète ici: genocidescholars.org/wp-content/u... #SANCTIONS #CeaseFireNOW #BringThemHomeNOW
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Ludo Waltman @ludowaltman.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Excellent news piece in @nature.com providing an overview of ongoing discussions about the organization of peer review in funding allocation and scientific publishing doi.org/10.1038/d415.... @rorinstitute.bsky.social @cwts.nl
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The peer-review crisis: how to fix an overloaded system
Journals and funders are trying to boost the speed and effectiveness of review processes that are under strain.
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Retraction Watch @retractionwatch.com · 25/07/2025
Reviewer accused of stealing manuscript and publishing it as his own denies he refereed it
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Reviewer accused of stealing manuscript and publishing it as his own denies he refereed it
An early-career researcher who discovered a nearly identical version of her manuscript published by the researcher who reviewed — and recommended rejecting — the work for another journal is still a…
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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 490,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 490,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use
Update: The Metropolitan Museum of Art has put online 492,000 high-resolution images of artistic works. Even better, the museum has placed the vast majority of these images into the public domain, mea...
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Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Nature publishes peer review comments alongside new papers. All papers published in Nature from will include comments from peer reviewers as the journal aims to shed light on what it calls “the ‘black box’ of science”. Among our most-read. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-worl...
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Nature publishes peer review comments alongside new papers - Research Professional News
Change at flagship journal praised as publisher says it wants to open “black box”
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Anna Hughes @anna-r-hughes.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Interested in increasing transparency of #PeerReview for #Monographs 🤚 Join this afternoon's webinar and learn more about #PRISM key features 💡Controlled vocabulary 💡Title-level detail 💡Catalogue-level overview 💡API integration 🔗 www.jisc.ac.uk/events/facet...
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Facets of trust: describing peer review procedure of open access books with PRISM” - Jisc
This event is an introduction to Operas’ Peer Review Information Service for Monographs (PRISM) by Ronald Snijder from OAPEN, with some input from some researchers who will showcase how they use the ...
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Association of European University Presses @aeup-eu.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Sévérine Guiton, Céline Vautrin and Laure Himy-Piéri presented the process and results of creation of the French Alliance of Public Scientific Publishers, Alliance des éditeurs scientifiques publics français (ALEF). #AEUP2025 #academicpublishing #scholcomm #PublicPublishers
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Casilli @casilli.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Google, Meta, and Co. are developing AI companions mimicking emotions. Is delegating human connection to machines worth the risk? What's the cost of machines “with a soul”? Register here and join me for a new DiPLab seminar with philosopher Evan Selinger on May 23 at 5pm. tinyurl.com/diplab-selin...
Come hear philosopher Evan Selinger in conversation with Antonio Casilli in Paris on May 23 at 5 p.m.
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Lucy Barnes @alittleroad.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
In a Jisc webinar, hearing that OUP have charged Manchester Uni more than £20,000 each for two OA books. Absolutely outrageous charges, and absolutely unsurprising to hear it was OUP. A Q abt cost breakdown wasn't answered, but you can bet the prestige premium makes up a hefty chunk of that money.
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Mathilde Larrère @mathildelarrere.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Le 8 février 1962, la police de Papon, couverte par De Gaulle, réprime violemment une manifestation pour la Paix en Algérie. Les manifestant-es qui fuient les coups de matraques s'agglutinent à l'entrée du métro Charonne. La police lance des grilles d'arbres 8 morts sur le coup, 2 par la suite
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Le Pouvoir fait couler le sang des Parisiens
8 morts (un 9e mourra plus tard des suites de ses blessures) et des centaines de blessés sont tombés dans le combat antifasciste et pour la paix en Algériele nom des victimes
Jean-Pierre Bernard, 30 ans, dessinateur aux PTT28 ;
Fanny Dewerpe29,30, 31 ans, secrétaire ;
Daniel Féry31, 15 ans, apprenti ;
Anne-Claude Godeau, 24 ans, employée aux chèques postaux32 ;
Hippolyte Pina, 58 ans, maçon33 ;
Édouard Lemarchand, 40 ans, employé de presse34 ;
Suzanne Martorell, 36 ans, employée à L'Humanité35 ;
Raymond Wintgens, 44 ans, typographe29 ;
Maurice Pochard, employé de bureau, 48 ans, décédé le 20 avril 1962 à l'hôpital à la suite de ses blessures36.Photo montrant la charge des policiers armés de leurs bidules (matraques)
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Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · 09/01/2025
My very last issue (on ♿️) has now come out with BMJ Medical Humanities: I have stepped down from my role as Editor in Chief. There are a lot of factors—after 17 years editing two consecutive journals, it was time. But there’s more, and I feel we should talk about the climate of #academic publishing
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David William with a 'This IS my costume' pin @nrvscrcts.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
"I didn't think there was anything left for publishers to monetize (after having authors acquire the funding, do the research, write the paper, do the peer review, and correct the page proofs for free while they take in all the profits), but here I stand corrected".
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