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James Butcher

@journalology.com

newsletter.journalology.com I write a newsletter on Substack called Journalology, which covers the news and trends in academic publishing.

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James Butcher @journalology.com · 01/04/2026

Excellent choice of photo @sciam.bsky.social

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James Butcher @journalology.com · 30/03/2026

Some publishers nearly doubled their output over the past decade. This graph shows the article growth for 8 commercial publishers between 2016 and 2025. Tomorrow I'll explore Elsevier's progress in 2025. More here: newsletter.journalology.com/p/how-did-th...

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James Butcher @journalology.com · 25/03/2026

There's been a lot of hype about AI "peer" review. It's good to see a description of the Automated Reviewer in today's Nature paper. I would prefer independent verification of tools like these, though. I am open minded and skeptical in equal measure. I'm interested to hear what proper editors think.

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James Butcher @journalology.com · 25/03/2026

Human beings are innate storytellers. This editorial from an outgoing EiC is a beautifully written piece about beginnings and endings in scholarly communication. Save this article to refer to the next time you're asked to attend an "article of the future" workshop.

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James Butcher @journalology.com · 24/03/2026

No paper should be "too big to fail". Creating invisible harm is unacceptable.

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James Butcher @journalology.com · 24/03/2026

What are the authors proposing here? That institutions act as gatekeepers and quality controllers, rather than publishers? wonkhe.com/blogs/more-a...

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James Butcher @journalology.com · 24/03/2026

Are poor metadata due to technical limitations of peer review systems or publishers' policy decisions? This study suggests that it's a bit of both. OJS comes out worse than eJP and S1.

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