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Pavithran Narayanan

@npavi.bsky.social
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Content Acquisition Specialist, Wiley | #OpenScience #OpenAccess advocate | #ScholarlyPublishing

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Pavithran Narayanan @npavi.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Trust and Verification problems also exist (primarily?) in researcher identity - I think this is an area that is probably not being considered a lot in the age of AI! #Identity #Verification #Trust #AI scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/04/21/g...
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Guest Post — Moving from Identifier to Identity for Researchers - The Scholarly Kitchen
Today's post calls for collective action to address the researcher identity verification gap in scholarly communications and champions STM's Researcher identity group.
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Pavithran Narayanan @npavi.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
The same person could have multiple ORCID profiles linked to different email addresses. But even if one person has only one, it is often not updated!
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Pavithran Narayanan @npavi.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Read this fantastic @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social post by @jacoates.bsky.social! I think superimposing Richard Poynder's thoughts about the OA movement with the preprint movement is superb 👌. #Preprint #PRC #OpenAccess #PeerReview #Publishing scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/04/14/g...
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Guest Post - From Open Access to Preprints: Are We Repeating the Same Mistakes in Scholarly Publishing? - The Scholarly Kitchen
Guest blogger Jonny Coates looks at Richard Poynder's post-mortem on the Open Access movement, and uses it as a framework to ask questions about the future of preprints.
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Pavithran Narayanan @npavi.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Thomas and Denis are great people, deeply passionate about the diamond OA community and the work they do! #Librarians - do attend the call & I'm sure you'll have a great time! :) @peercommunityin.bsky.social #OpenScience #DiamondOA #OpenAccess
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PREreview @prereview.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Today we published the Strategic Plan that will shape PREreview’s work over the next three years. By 2029, we aim to shift norms in research assessment so they reflect the values of equity, openness, and care. 👉 Read our 3Y Strategic Plan: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
"PREreview 2025 Annual Report" header on top-right corner. An inverted red trapezoid shape representing the path opening in front, with a QR code on the bottom leading to the PREreview Strategic Plan in Zenodo. "There's an exciting road ahead!" title at the bottom of the page
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Ludo Waltman @ludowaltman.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
At @unileiden.bsky.social we are proud to launch our Strategic Publication Framework! www.staff.universiteitleiden.nl/news/2025/12... We are revisiting our publication practices, strengthening our commitment to open science, and aligning our publication choices and recognition and reward policies.
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Leiden University launches strategic framework for scientific publishing - Leiden University
Leiden University has adopted its first Strategic Publication Framework for publishing the works of its researchers. With this framework our university takes another major step towards making open sci...
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Pavithran Narayanan @npavi.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
@ludowaltman.bsky.social Do you think cOAlition S has lost or is fast losing trust with a lot of people within the publishing field? In one way, funders like Gates, HHMI, etc. coming out with independent policies will help cOAlition S's cause. But, I'm not sure if their approach would be effective!
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Ludo Waltman @ludowaltman.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Great to see that cOAlition S is going to enhance its "focus on sustainable and equitable models, such as PRC, diamond open access and preprints". This aligns with some of the work we are doing at @cwts.nl and in @rorinstitute.bsky.social.
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ASAPbio @asapbio.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
✍️ Advance the Culture of Peer Review with Preprints!🚀 Tips for researchers: ✨ Request reviews and feedback for your next preprint ✨Write preprint reviews ✨Agree to review preprints ✨Convert journal clubs to a preprint review club ✨List preprint reviews on your lab website
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Pavithran Narayanan @npavi.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
💯this: "Community is not a nice-to-have; it is the foundation of lasting cultural change" - This article presents a fantastic read on the need for community efforts for Open Science to progress! #Community #OpenScience #Engagement #Culture #Change #Academia www.themodernpeer.com/the-loss-of-...
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The loss of community in open science: a sign of a failing movement?
Open Science (OS) is a movement that aims to bring about a change to the academic publishing system. Yet, despite being around for over 30 years, it has had relatively limited success. Traditional pub...
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Pavithran Narayanan @npavi.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
It was a pleasure to share my thoughts on Open Access through the #LinkedIn profile of Trevor Mundel, President of Global Health, Gates Foundation, on account of #OAWeek! @openaccessmaven.bsky.social @sparcopen.bsky.social #OpenAccess #OpenScience #OpenResearch www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
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Celebrating Open Access Week: Why OA Matters | Trevor Mundel posted on the topic | LinkedIn
Hello all! This is Pavithran Narayanan, taking over Trevor’s LinkedIn in recognition of International Open Access Week. As an open access (OA) enthusiast, it’s a pleasure to share a few reflections on...
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alicemeadows.bsky.social @alicemeadows.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
"The story of diamond #OA is still being written. Its rise reflects a powerful shift toward scholarly communication as a public good.. But... ideals alone cannot sustain journals." Great post on @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social by my fellow chef Maryam Sayab scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/10/15/d...
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Diamond Dreams, Unequal Realities: The Promise and Pitfalls of No-APC Open Access - The Scholarly Kitchen
Diamond Open Access promises equity, but sustainability challenges remain. Discover the hidden costs, global gaps, and paths toward lasting open publishing.
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Pavithran Narayanan @npavi.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
"All solutions need not scale to inspire and instruct"! 💯
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Pavithran Narayanan @npavi.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
💯!
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Pavithran Narayanan @npavi.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Oh yes, @prereview.bsky.social is amazing!
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Pavithran Narayanan @npavi.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
I don't know about vested interests but I think one of the stumbling blocks in P-R-C is due to our lack of clarity & consensus about the "C". We don't know what & how we are going to curate and what that product of curation is gonna look like. But, yes, transparent, honest, inclusive discussion ✅!
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Pavithran Narayanan @npavi.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Yes, so then do we also need to define what *changes* are? Should they only be changes in response to peer review or editorial assessment? I get your point about preprints just getting "branded" analogous to a journal!
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Pavithran Narayanan @npavi.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
For point no. 1, I think we then need to define what constitutes a change! Will it be any kind of a change or those resulting only from peer review/editorial assessment? How will it differ from preprint versioning (which will have a separate DOI ayway)?
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Pavithran Narayanan @npavi.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
I understand that all info could be displayed alongside a preprint. But, don't you think a reviewed preprint, displayed along with review reports (with or without an editorial assessment) & hosted on a different platform could have a separate DOI? "Reviewed preprint" could be a formal category!
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Pavithran Narayanan @npavi.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
I think it's best to have just 1 identifier if there's no particular necessity for the same object to have multiple ones of the same kind. You rightly refer to versioning & the same may apply to any change an object goes through (like withdrawal or retraction)!
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Pavithran Narayanan @npavi.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Oh, I just read through that part & it sounds crazy! I've always remained sceptical of researcher surveys as I don't know if they actually know what they want...!
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Pavithran Narayanan @npavi.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
(2/2) Formalizing "Reviewed Preprints" as a category will have important implications for the P-R-C model & to meaningfully take forward the work undertaken by preprint reviewing platforms like @reviewcommons.org @prereview.bsky.social @peercommunityin.bsky.social @elife.bsky.social, etc.! #PRC
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Pavithran Narayanan @npavi.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
(1/2) For the 2nd question, I feel we need an entirely different assignment type like "Reviewed Preprint" or "Assessed Preprint" (for reviewed preprints with editorial assessment)! @ludowaltman.bsky.social @andre-brasil.bsky.social @rorinstitute.bsky.social @crossref.bsky.social @elife.bsky.social
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Pavithran Narayanan @npavi.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
@ludowaltman.bsky.social @andre-brasil.bsky.social & @crossref.bsky.social are requesting input on #DOI registration for P-R-C model!
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Pavithran Narayanan @npavi.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Speaks for the impact that @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social & @medrxivpreprint.bsky.social have come to have on the field! And the exemplary work led by @richardsever.bsky.social @johninglis.bsky.social - both very much deserving of The Royal Society Research Culture Award 2025!
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Pavithran Narayanan @npavi.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Preprints need not work against journals, but preprints needn't also be dependent on journals - it'll take quite some time for people to just preprint their work & opt for preprint reviewing (we've just gotten out of not Googling the IF of bioRxiv!!! 😄)!
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Pavithran Narayanan @npavi.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
This is interesting - it'll make institutions take more (almost complete) responsibility for integrity issues but they may also want to invest significant money (& possibly human resource) to make these checks available for everyone!
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Pavithran Narayanan @npavi.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
"To immediately cap APCs risks turning publishers focused on quality into those that may need to focus on quantity..." - APCs have already made publishers focus on quantity (with or without focus on quality)! Sounds ironic!
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Pavithran Narayanan @npavi.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Okay, thanks!
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Pavithran Narayanan @npavi.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Being planned as a hybrid event?
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Pavithran Narayanan @npavi.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Yes, and I think many funders now actibely mandating preprints has the potential to positively influence the research community towards embracing preprintsand preprint review!
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Pavithran Narayanan @npavi.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
James Butcher, in one of his newsletters, wrote: "many funders believe that they should be able to dictate how and where the work they pay for is published. That’s a dangerous, if increasingly well-trodden, path, in my opinion". Funders seem to be changing the course of publishing quite swiftly!
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Pavithran Narayanan @npavi.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
😅😅😅
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Pavithran Narayanan @npavi.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Nailed it! But unfortunately for us, #platinum & #diamond are the same (but #green has a chance)!!! 🥲🥲😅 #OpenAccess
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Pavithran Narayanan @npavi.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Digressing slightly here: I don't personally agree with the term "free" (for all types of OA & especially for 💎 OA) as it's technically incorrect & nothing is actually *free*! The definition should reflect that all operational & publication costs borne by some one!
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Pavithran Narayanan @npavi.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Very much befitting - many congratulations @richardsever.bsky.social & @johninglis.bsky.social! 👏👏👏
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Pavithran Narayanan @npavi.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
I may probably lean more towards making preprint peer review work better & widespread. Won't reviewers choosing & gravitating towards a paper be far more better than papers of all *qualities* coming to them? The former would be more spontaneous & organic, I guess!
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Pavithran Narayanan @npavi.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
I really don't know what can actually fix the peer review crisis. But some non-negotiables would be to know what exactly we need from peer review process & reviewers owning the process (without feeling it as a burden). There needs to be an underlying cultural change!
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Pavithran Narayanan @npavi.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
"Self-citation requests can turn peer review into a transaction rather than an objective critique of the article" - @aidybarnett.bsky.social in his OSF @cos.io preprint! #PeerReview #SelfCitation #Preprint #OSF osf.io/preprints/os...
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Pavithran Narayanan @npavi.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Wishing @tracykteal.bsky.social & team @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social @medrxivpreprint.bsky.social @openrxiv.bsky.social the best - Let "Speed of Science" be the phrase of the year! :)
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Pavithran Narayanan @npavi.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
💯!
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Pavithran Narayanan @npavi.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Paywalled! 😕
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Pavithran Narayanan @npavi.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
(3/3) And with very little to no meaningful, formal peer review training offered to researchers (esp. ECRs), I think peer review may not be of much practical help in detecting problematic papers, especially on a large scale.
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Pavithran Narayanan @npavi.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
(2/3) The main reason I think peer review has paid little attention to integrity concerns is because it is not designed for that purpose. So, it would be an additional burden on a system that is searching for its own meaning & trying to survive under tremendous pressure!
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Pavithran Narayanan @npavi.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
(1/3) I understand the concept & peer review could possibly help strengthen research integrity in principle. But when peer review finds itself knee-deep in problems & is taking care not to collapse, how do you think the system can help solve issues in integrity?
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Pavithran Narayanan @npavi.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
(2/2) I came across this yesterday & genuinely surprised that the messed-up peer review system is being projected to resolve research integrity crisis! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Rethinking Peer Review Using the Swiss Cheese Model to Better Flag Problematic Manuscripts
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Pavithran Narayanan @npavi.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
(1/2) @samuelmoore.org @johanrooryck.bsky.social I didn't think this needs to be seen just as a "peer review labour" issue. We need to decide how peer review should be & what we need out of it. Unless researchers start *owning* peer review, this may not get resolved!
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Pavithran Narayanan @npavi.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
@samuelmoore.org Says a lot about the "vision" that PSA's office has for Indian science! It'll give SN a lot of penetration into educational institutions & they'll be able to market their brand at a different level!
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Pavithran Narayanan @npavi.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
(2/2) Would definitely be a good starting point in addressing a growing and persistent issue, though compliance could be a problem! #Trust #Verification #Integrity #ScholComm
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Pavithran Narayanan @npavi.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
(1/2) Interesting proposal by @rnls.bsky.social @f1000publishing.bsky.social for @nisoinfo.bsky.social ("or a similar neutral entity") to standardize a framework for #verifications & #checks of #preprints, journal articles and other published output! #Trust journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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The need for verification markers on published content - Rebecca Lawrence, 2025
Ethics and integrity cases in submitted manuscripts is becoming an increasingly common problem, whilst retractions continue to grow at a rapid rate. These cases...
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