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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 7h

I spoke about this in a 2024 article of mine. You can see a small extract from the article in the accompanying graphic. Follow the link to see the full paper. buff.ly/qENrLSy

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 7h

Whever I investigate a journal, I am always interested by any claimed impact factor. Often, the journal just states an impact factor but provides no information about how the impact factor is derived (that is a major red flag). 🧵

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

⚫️ Metaverse journal: buff.ly/CWvfgXY (archived at buff.ly/OYjxdrp) ⚫️ Omniscient: buff.ly/j7MLDMm (archived at buff.ly/T7doEiK)

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

=== Links === ⚫️ Asia Pacific Academy of Science Pte. Ltd.: buff.ly/zQQC7uE (archived at buff.ly/OmNggDo) ⚫️ Asia Pacific Academy of Science Pte. Ltd. (contact page): buff.ly/2phMwDM (archived at )

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

Again, I am not saying that Metaverse is predatory, but I am unsure why they are using an Omniscient domain for some of the communication. It just causes (at best) confusion and (at worst) concerns about what the journal/publisher is up to. What is your view? Am I looking too closely for red flags?

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

4️⃣ The journal URL [Image 2] is aber.apasciom 5️⃣ Nova has a phone number of +60 (Malaysia), rather than Singapore. Nothing wrong with that (the two countries are next to each other) but it does make you look twice.

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

3️⃣ Nova signs off using an omniscient.sg email address [Image 2]. Not only is this a different publisher (not the Metaverse publisher), but it is also from Singapore. Asia Pacific Academy of Science is actually published out of Singapore and has an email address of editorial_office@apacsci.com.

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

2️⃣ Nova says that they are an assistant editor of Metaverse [Image 1]

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

1️⃣ The email is from "Omniscisent", which is a different publisher, but the domain name on the email is "apapublish.com" [Image 1]

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

I am not saying that this journal is predatory but I noted a few things that would raise red flags for me and would suggest that further investigation would be in order.

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

I received this email (shown over two images) from Metaverse (2810-9791), which is published by Asia Pacific Academy of Science Pte. Ltd. The journal is Scopus Q3 (at least in one category), which I have confirmed by looking at Scopus. 🧵

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

3️⃣ Sajid Qamar : buff.ly/TdXvz7E 4️⃣ India Research Watch : buff.ly/Xd7NiDO

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

Some people (myself incuded) have commented on this (and these are just a sample). Please take a moment to take a look at them, just as a check/balance. [Note: The links are to LinkedIn] 1️⃣ Me: buff.ly/PNLqE6v 2️⃣ Jason Thatcher : buff.ly/ybZMIgs

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

But this list has to be treated with caution, as it is subject to Goodhart's Law ("When a metric becomes a target it is no longer a good metric").

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

Lots of people are saying that they are in the Stanford/Elsevier top 2% list. Which is great, if you are there legitimately (which I feel that the majority of people are). 🧵

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

________________________________________ You can read my newsletter on: LinkedIn: buff.ly/3CkkVKT or on my website: buff.ly/nBckmHG

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

Do some journals show very different patterns from comparable journals? The final author list tells us who ended up on the paper. Perhaps we should also be able to see how that list came to be. Would you support a public authorship trail?

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

There could also be a wider benefit. If publishers recorded these changes consistently, we could begin analysing authorship changes across thousands of papers. How often are authors added late? Are changes more common in some disciplines?

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

This would not mean that authorship changes were automatically suspicious. In fact, greater transparency could help demonstrate that a change was entirely legitimate, properly explained and agreed by those involved.

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

Perhaps published papers should therefore contain a simple authorship trail showing who was listed at initial submission, who was added or removed during revision, when the change happened, why it happened and whether the relevant authors approved it.

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

If a paragraph changes, readers probably do not need to know exactly when or why. But if an author is added or removed, something more fundamental has changed: the people receiving credit for the research, and potentially those accepting responsibility for it, are no longer the same.

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

There may be perfectly legitimate reasons for all of these changes, but should readers be able to see them? In this week's Publishing with Integrity, I argued that authorship may deserve greater transparency than other changes made to a manuscript during peer review.

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

We usually see the final author list on a published paper. But what if that was not the author list when the paper was first submitted? An author might have been added during revision, someone might have been removed, or the order might have changed. 🧵

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

Essentially, the UK is seeing a decline, year-on-year in visa applications. This is one of the reasons for some of the issues that UK HE is currently facing. Of course, this is a complex issue and this is just one data point. You can read the full article here: buff.ly/OnDV4kZ

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

I don't usually comment on things like student visas but these figures in a Times Higher Education article by Jack Grove struck me. 🧵

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The answer might reveal rather more about an institution’s true capacity than its budgets, organisational charts or strategic plans. I explored this issue more fully in this week’s Governance, Leadership & Research newsletter: How much of your university runs on goodwill? buff.ly/hligHYV

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Perhaps universities should occasionally undertake a simple stress test. Imagine that, tomorrow, everybody did their job well, but did only what they were formally expected and resourced to do. What would stop working?

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

At that point, goodwill has effectively become part of the operating model. And that creates an interesting governance question: If an activity only works because people routinely contribute more time than the institution has actually resourced, is that activity genuinely sustainable?

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

A new initiative may appear affordable because nobody includes the evenings, weekends and additional responsibilities absorbed by existing staff. A programme may look adequately resourced because the people delivering it repeatedly do more than they are formally allocated to do.

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The problem begins when the institution quietly starts planning on the assumption that this extra effort will continue.

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

People review papers, mentor colleagues, examine PhDs, sit on committees, help students, contribute to professional bodies and take on countless other activities that may never appear in a workload model. Often, those activities benefit both the individual and the university.

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

One thought has stayed with me since writing this week’s newsletter: At what point does goodwill stop being goodwill? There is nothing wrong with people doing more than their formal role requires. In universities, much of academic life depends on precisely that spirit of collegiality.

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Should authorship changes be visible to readers? buff.ly/g5yDaAo

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

=== Links === ⚫️ Journal: buff.ly/NzeryqX (archived at buff.ly/3eHchcM) ⚫️ Sample Issue (Vol. 14): buff.ly/FN1uUgq (archived at buff.ly/SyOpxQ4) ⚫️ Sample PDF (from Vol. 14): buff.ly/zO4DUEv (archived at buff.ly/rP13qnP)

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Received this email from Annals of Clinical and Medical Case Reports (ISSN: 2639-8109). It says that a DOI is assigned to each published article. I am happy to be corrected but looking at their published articles, I can't see that their article have a DOI. 🧵

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

... which makes me wonder if there are more Professors out there who started their academic journey with me? And what are the others doing now? Some I know, the rest I should know - but I think I'll try and find out.

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Congratulations to them. It really is their hard work and tenacity that brought them this well deserved succes.

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It's always nice to get messages such as this (and, no I wil not embarass the person that sent it) but it made me realise that at least three PhD students I supervised have gone onto to become a full Professor, and in three different countries. 🧵

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The Times Higher Education 2027 rankings have just been annouced. This infographic shows the ranking positions of the 29 universities in Malaysia (the "Reported" universities are now shown) that are ranked.

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

How much of your university runs on goodwill? buff.ly/dGsM6pm

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

⚫️ Journal of Quality in Health Care & Economics (JQHE): buff.ly/PZiOH7D (archived at buff.ly/7wWofOg) ⚫️ What does ChatGPT advise about predatory publishing?: buff.ly/leCUrh1

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

If you look at the scope of the journal (image 2) and the abstract of the article they refer to (image 3), I challenge you to tell me how my article (letter) is relevant to the journal. === Links === ⚫️ Medwin: buff.ly/ytSVoVy (archived at buff.ly/JNkkzGL)

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The article (which is actually a letter) they are referring to is titled "What does ChatGPT advise about predatory publishing?"

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Received this email (see first image) from Medwin's Journal of Quality in Health Care & Economics (JQHE) (ISSN: 2642-6250). The email says they found my "... research highly relevant to the scope of the Journal of Quality in Health Care & Economics". 🧵

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If you were attending such a webinar is there anything you would like to see covered? I'd be especially interested in ideas related to Research, Governance abd Leadership.

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The things, at the moment, that I plan to cover include: ⚫️ The importance of prompt engineering ⚫️ Projects ⚫️ Skills ⚫️ Image generation ⚫️ Scheduled tasks

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I've been invited to do a webinar on AT, spcifically how to use it to its best effect. Not sure when it will hapen but just thinking about a few ideas. I'll use ChatGPT as my exampler, but many of the things (if not all) I talk about will be be applicable to all of the other major platforms. 🧵

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

In an era where AI will increasingly influence higher education, effective AI governance may become one of the most important areas that a university should consider.

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The presentation will conclude by suggesting that we not ask what AI can do. Rather, we ask what values universities wish to protect, what outcomes they seek to achieve, and what responsibilities they owe to students, staff and society.

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It will also consider some of the risks associated with poorly governed AI systems, including bias, erosion of academic standards and the unintended consequences of metric-driven behaviour.

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