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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 12h

You are the Editor-in-Chief and someone challenges a paper that was published five years ago. Is it your problem? buff.ly/DYVdccL

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 14h

I wonder whether we are teaching people to use AI the wrong way around. A lot of AI training starts with the technology. What is generative AI? How do large language models work? What is prompting? What are agents? Which tools should you use? What are their features? 🧵

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 18h

Received this email from the Journal of Marketing & Supply Chain Management (ISSN: 2754-6683). One of the formats you can submit is a Powerpoint presentation. This made me wonder, has anybody published a powerpoint presentation in a journal which is considered both high quality and legitimate? 🧵

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

You do not need to know everything about AI, so stop trying and start using it buff.ly/gZyhWWl

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I receiced a request to do a review. Among the instructions was to look out for plagiarsim and AI generated text and report it on a separate form. Is this not what AI (or even TurnItIn) should should be doing for us? Are peer reviewers not under enough pressure already? 🧵

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Received an email from the Journal of Marketing & Supply Chain Management (ISSN: 2754-6683) (see second image - from a previous post). I took a look at their home page. 🧵

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Saw this on the web site of Edelweiss Applied Science and Technology (E_ISSN: 2576-8484). The second image shows the more detailed page. If you are a Stanford top 2% author, you can get complete waiver of article Processing Charges (APCs). What do you think about this? 🧵

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Delighted to have just been informed that this paper has been accepted. Going through copy editing at the moment (so the abstract may change) but very happy to have got this paper over the line as it is a topic that is close to my heart.

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The scale of AI may itself be becoming a barrier to its adoption. Every day seems to bring another model, tool or capability, making it increasingly difficult for anyone to feel that they are keeping up. 🧵

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I did a search on Scopus for all retracted papers published in 2020. I next looked for the paper with the most citations. So, a paper published in 2000, has 4,000 citations. Let that sink in - I'll return to this in future posts.

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

In 2025, I wrote an article in The Conversation asking whether artificial intelligence could eventually take a seat in the company boardroom. In that article, I discussed Alan Turing’s famous test [1]. 🧵

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A paper is retracted. What happens to everything that cited it? buff.ly/wy6KaR5

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It's been a busy week this week. I've put in a couple of 3am'ers. Not that I am complaining - I actually don't mind working deep into the night. That probably goes back to the time I used to work night shifts, which I always enjoyed. 🧵

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A paper you cited has just been retracted. Should you now be worried about your own paper? Not necessarily. There is an important difference between citing a paper and depending upon it. 🧵

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A few months ago, I wrote about one of the perennial challenges in universities: can we ever create a workload model that everyone believes is fair? 🧵

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Are we creating a double standard around AI in academic publishing? Authors may increasingly use AI to help prepare a paper, provided they declare its use appropriately. But reviewers are often told they must not use AI to help review that same paper. 🧵

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Delighted to be giving a keynote talk today I'll be talking about "Artificial Intelligence is here to stay but how will it be governed". Also looking forward to hear what my fellow keynote speakers have to say: buff.ly/wDPBhb6 Many thanks to Mahsa University for the invite - greatly appreciated.

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

What happens when AI makes someone much more productive, but nobody else knows? Imagine that a task used to take an employee three hours. They discover a way of using AI that reduces it to 45 minutes, with no loss of quality. Should they tell their manager? 🧵

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Saw this recent (August 2026) paper. It's #OA so is available to all. What drew my attention was the call for more transparency about article processing charges (APCs), which you don't often see, although I did write on this topic in a 2025 article in The Journal of Academic Librarianship. 🧵

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

When you look at a CV, what do you look at first? For me, two things tend to catch my eye. First, how long has the person spent in each role? I am interested in the overall pattern. 🧵

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

1️⃣ I received an invite to receive an award, saying "Based on your profile and achievements, you have been selected for an award, to be presented on stage during the ceremony." 🧵

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

AI Is changing your organisation, whether you planned it or not buff.ly/IVWK4gX

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Every so often I look at who is publishing what, and how often. When I was looking at the the last three years, I saw that Scientific Reports has more documents indexed on Scopus that any other outlet. 🧵

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I have now published almost 30 editions of my newsletter that focuses on Governance, Leadership and Research. I collect stats after 24 hours of an edition being published, as well as just before the next edition is published - so, about 7 days after being published. 🧵

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

When I look at a CV, it frustrates me when the list of published papers is presented with the oldest one first (e.g. 2002 to 2026, rather than 2026 to 2002). Is this just me?

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Almost six years ago to the day, I wrote an article in The Star titled, "Neccesity is the Mother of Invention." That article was reflecting on how we had transitioned overnight to on-line teaching in response to the pandemic, saying that 🧵

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Received this email from the Journal of Clinical & Medical Case Reports, Images (JCMCRI) ISSN: 3064-8025. In response: Q1: It is and I am - thank you. 🧵

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

How difficult should it be to change the authors of a paper? We spend a great deal of time checking what is in a manuscript. Reviewers examine the methods, results and conclusions. Editors assess revisions. Publishers may run plagiarism, reference and image checks. 🧵

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Just updating my CV (more than that actually, but CV will do) and one of the things I need to show are my "honorary positions". Thought I would share it here, if nothing else to say thank you to all the institutions that have had the confidence in me to invite me to be part of their institution. 🧵

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

When you write an academic paper, do you deliberately include a sentence that could later be used as a soundbite? Something that might work in a press release, a LinkedIn post, a conference slide, a media interview, or some other form of promotion? I never have. 🧵

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

There is a strange possibility at the heart of the AI productivity debate. An organisation can make a series of perfectly sensible decisions about AI and still create a serious long-term problem. 🧵

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Adding Authors After Submission: How Difficult Should It Be? buff.ly/EBy8OuZ

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

YOU NEED TO READ THIS Experiment: How easy is it to buy a research paper on the black market? buff.ly/1VmtboH

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I recently ran a poll on X and LinkedIn, asking how you check if a journal is predatory? What surprised me was the number of people that said they use Beall's List. 🧵

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

How easy should it be to add an author to a paper after it has been submitted? There can be perfectly legitimate reasons for changing authors during peer review. A revision may require new experiments, specialist analysis or expertise that was not needed when the manuscript was first submitted. 🧵

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

What Happens When AI Removes the Bottom Rung of the Career Ladder? buff.ly/fxrJ3d1

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

When I look at a CV, it frustrates me when the journal articles, conference proceedings, book chapters etc. are mixed together. This might be naivety, or an attempt to distract the CV the person who is looking at the CV. But this might just be me?

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I have been refreshing my web site (and boy did it need it). I have just added all (I hope) the articles that the University of Nottingham Malaysia published in The Star during my time as CEO/Provost. 🧵

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I am updating my web site and, as part of that, I am looking at how my bibtex file can be used to 'drive' my publications page. 🧵

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I received this email from the American Journal of Science Education Research (ISSN: 2835-6764). The impact factor they state (2.5) is not Clarivate/Web of Science, which is what you might first think. 🧵

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Should authors have to prove who they are before a journal publishes their research? 🧵

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I recently had a look at how I do on the Stanford Top 2% list (with all the caveats, which I mention on my web site). The graph shows my year-on-year position, both single year and career. Take a closer look on my web site: buff.ly/Wnhu1aA 🧵

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

If one employee produces twice as much as another, do we actually know why? 🧵

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Should authors have to prove who they are? buff.ly/0xKc5g6

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

A recent LinkedIn post by Vincenzo Raimo asked an interesting question: what if universities gave students an itemised breakdown showing what their tuition fees actually pay for? It made me wonder: Why don't academic publishers do the same with APCs? 🧵

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It was only a few years ago that I became aware of the term quiet quitting and since then, I have seen it a lot. I guess it was always there, but now I am aware of it, I see it frequently, whether in person or when others write about it. 🧵

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Are We Creating Two Classes of Employee with AI? AI may already be creating two classes of worker: those who know how to use it effectively and those who do not. If some employees are quietly ... buff.ly/Uf0UYxM

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Received this email from the Journal of Clinical & Medical Case Reports, Images (JCMCRI) ISSN: 3064-8025. No it is not - nor is it indexed by Scopus. Journal: buff.ly/QLYJXen (archived at buff.ly/rRqCMAD)

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

If you are going to offer a doctorate, at least use the correct grammar. buff.ly/ZsRWWbx (archived at buff.ly/rK4AxQo)

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

For my academic writing, I feel that I am pretty organised, but things have got away from me a little bit in the last month or so, so I had to do a temporary plan just to see where all my active projects are at. Like making a list, it clears the mind and I feel a lot better for it. 🧵

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