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Peer Community In @peercommunityin.bsky.social · 2h

A new article is out in the free, generalist, open-access Peer Community Journal! Free public peer reviews and recommendations by PCI StatML: doi.org/10.24072/pci... 📣 You want to publish in PCJ? Submit your preprint to one of the 21 thematic PCI 👉 peercommunityin.org/submit-a-pre...

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Epigenetic profile drives accurate survival prediction in breast cancer via a multi-omics machine learning model

Mestrallet, Guillaume1 ; Pierga, Alexandre2 ; Frémont, Paul3 1Division of Hematology and Oncology, Hess Center for Science & Medicine, Tisch Cancer Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount…

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Peer Community In @peercommunityin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A PCI recommendation can be a valuable part of a publication strategy: · The recommendation and peer-reviews are citable · You participate in open science initiatives · You can publish in the journal of your choice 👉 Explore your publishing options with PCI: peercommunityin.org/submit-a-pre...

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Once an article has been recommended by a PCI, the authors can opt to leave it on a preprint server, to publish it in PCI Journal, to submit it to a PCI-friendly journal or to any other journal

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Peer Community In @peercommunityin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

💬 Does a PCI recommendation mean that my paper is published? No. A PCI recommendation is the outcome of a positive and public peer-review process. Once your preprint has been recommended, you can choose what comes next! 👉 peercommunityin.org/submit-a-pre...

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Submit a preprint to PCI - Peer Community In

Once an article has been recommended by a PCI, the authors can opt to leave it on a preprint server, to publish it in PCI Journal, to submit it to a PCI-friendly journal or to any other journal

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Peer Community In @peercommunityin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A new article is out in the free, generalist, open-access Peer Community Journal! Free public peer reviews and recommendations by PCI Ecotox & Env Chem: doi.org/10.24072/pci... 📣 You want to publish in PCJ? Submit your preprint to one of the 21 thematic PCI 👉 peercommunityin.org/submit-a-pre...

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PFAS Data Hub: An open data portal featuring geovisualisation

Martinon, Luc1 ; Guyot, Alexis2 ; Lysaniuk, Benjamin3; Henry, Emmanuel4 ; Vermeersch, Stéphanie5 ; Labadie, Pierre6 1Independent data journalist - Berlin, Germany2Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, LIS -…

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Peer Community In @peercommunityin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A new article is out in the free, generalist, open-access Peer Community Journal! Free public peer reviews and recommendations by PCI Archeology: doi.org/10.24072/pci... 📣 You want to publish in PCJ? Submit your preprint to one of the 21 thematic PCI 👉 peercommunityin.org/submit-a-pre...

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Pioneering Preventive Preservation: The role of remote sensing in Cultural Heritage

Tsiafaki, Despoina1 ; Michailidou, Natasa1 ; Karta, Melpomeni1 ; Sirakouli, Vasiliki1 1Athena Research and Innovation Center In Information Communication & Knowledge Technologies - Xanthi, Greece

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Peer Community In @peercommunityin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Don’t miss our next PCI Webinar! Join us for a webinar with Daniël Lakens on: “Essential aspects of well-designed studies” 📅 October 1st | 🕐 4 PM (GMT+1) 👉 Register now: univ-cotedazur.zoom.us/meeting/regi... More information on PCI Webinar series: peercommunityin.org/pci-webinar-...

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Peer Community In @peercommunityin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

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Influence of organs, body size and growth on domoic acid depuration in the king scallop, Pecten maximus

Le Moan, Eline1 ; Hégaret, Hélène1 ; Deléglise, Margot1; Ambroziak, Marie1 ; Vanmaldergem, Jean1; Derrien, Amélie2; Terre-Terrillon, Aourégan2; Breton, Florian3; Fabioux, Caroline1 ; Jean,…

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Peer Community In @peercommunityin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A new article is out in the free, generalist, open-access Peer Community Journal! Free public peer reviews and recommendation by PCI Nutrition: doi.org/10.24072/pci... 📣 You want to publish in PCJ? Submit your preprint to one of the 21 thematic PCI 👉 peercommunityin.org/submit-a-pre...

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Co-creation of nutrition interventions in higher education settings: proposals from a student citizens’ assembly

el Karmouni, Hajar1 ; Dehove, Henri2 ; Allès, Benjamin2 ; Baudry, Julia2; Kesse-Guyot, Emmanuelle2 ; Péneau, Sandrine2 ; Touvier, Mathilde2 ; Mofakhami, Malo3 ; Group, USPN Student Citizens’…

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Peer Community In @peercommunityin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Many thanks to Richard McElreath (Max Planck in Leipzig) for an insightful webinar entitled “A Guerrilla Approach to Scientific Workflow”. For those who couldn’t join us live, the recording is now available: peercommunityin.org/pci-webinar-...

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PCI Webinar Series - Peer Community In

The PCI webinar series is a series of seminars on research practices, publication practices, evaluation, scientific integrity, meta-research, organised by Peer Community In

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Peer Community In @peercommunityin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

What happens after a PCI recommendation? PCI gives you a peer-reviewed research output but a PCI recommendation does not commit you to a specific journal, you remain free to choose your publication strategy! 👉 Discover your options after a PCI recommendation: peercommunityin.org/submit-a-pre...

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Submit a preprint to PCI - Peer Community In

Once an article has been recommended by a PCI, the authors can opt to leave it on a preprint server, to publish it in PCI Journal, to submit it to a PCI-friendly journal or to any other journal

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Peer Community In @peercommunityin.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

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Exploring Celtic Weighing Metrology through archaeological and written sources

Poigt, Thibaud1, 2 ; Parachaud, Kevin1 1TRACES - Travaux et recherches archéologiques sur les cultures, les espaces et les sociétés, Toulouse, France2Ausonius-Institut de recherche sur l'Antiquité…

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Peer Community In @peercommunityin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

A recent article highlights the importance of community peer review in the research ecosystem. PCI is an example of this approach: bringing researchers together to review and recommend high-quality preprints, independently and openly. 👉 Read this article www.preprints.org/blog/post/co...

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Community Peer Review: How Preprints Enable Open Scholarly Discussion

Traditional peer review is often limited to a handful of expert opinions. How can community peer review broaden scientific evaluation?

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Peer Community In @peercommunityin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

How did PCI come about? Traditional scientific publishing faces many challenges, including publication costs. “Free to read and publish” is a design principle for Peer Community In: access to scientific evaluation should not depend on the ability to pay.

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Peer Community In @peercommunityin.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

A new article is out in the free, generalist, open-access Peer Community Journal! 🔗 Free public peer-reviews and recommendation by PCI Plants: doi.org/10.24072/pci... 📣 You want to publish in PCJ? Submit your preprint to one of the 21 thematic PCI 👉 peercommunityin.org/submit-a-pre...

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eIFiso4G editing confers high and broad-spectrum resistance against rice yellow mottle virus

Auguy, Florence1 ; Chéron, Sophie1; Dossou, Laurence1 ; Pinel-Galzi, Agnès1 ; Thomas, Emilie1; Aribi, Jamel1; Celli, Marcos Giovani1, 2 ; Cunnac, Sébastien1 ; Hébrard, Eugénie1 ; Albar,…

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Peer Community In @peercommunityin.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

PCI Webinar Series: The talk of Richard McElreath's (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany) "A Guerrilla Approach to Scientific Workflow" is now online youtu.be/3kTy890wrAc

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PCI Webinar Series - Richard McElreath - A Guerrilla Approach to Scientific Workflow

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Peer Community In @peercommunityin.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Check out Paula Oset García's new blog post 'The reproducibility crisis in science: what’s going wrong and how to fix it'! ghentcorr.github.io/blog/2026/PC...

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Peer Community In @peercommunityin.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

📢 Recrutement La Direction pour la Science Ouverte d’INRAE recrute un·e ingénieur·e d’études pour contribuer au pilotage de PCI 📄 Contrat : CDD 15 mois 🎯 Mission : Accompagner le développement et la coordination de PCI Détails de l'offre : jobs.inrae.fr/ot-28928

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Responsable du pilotage du projet Peer Community In

INRAE est engagé dans la science ouverte et s’est doté d’une Direction pour la Science Ouverte (DipSO) pour mettre en place sa politique dans ce domaine. L’ouverture des publications et la défense de ...

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Biology Open @biologyopen.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

BiO joins Peer Community In as a PCI-friendly journal. Submit your PCI recommended preprint to BiO for a decision within five days. Find out more: peercommunityin.org/pci-friendly...

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Submit to PCI-friendly journals - Peer Community In

The authors of a PCI-recommended article have the possibility to publish in a variety of journals, including a selection of PCI-friendly journals.

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Peer Community In @peercommunityin.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Many thanks to Paolo Crosetto (@paolocrosetto.bsky.social) for a great webinar yesterday!! For those who missed it, the recording is now available online: youtu.be/3PVPCacsF1U?...

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PCI Webinar#14 - Paolo Crosetto - Why publishing is becoming a burden for science and how to fix it

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Peer Community In @peercommunityin.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

The recording of the panel discussion on "Rethinking Peer Review" is available here: youtu.be/Icr04Gbvqj0?... #peerreview#academicpublishing

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R2R 2026 - D2S1 - Rethinking Peer Review (Coates)

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Edward R. Ivimey-Cook @eivimeycook.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

🧵 New paper out today in @peercommunityin.bsky.social Journal! @joelpick.bsky.social et al. introduce the first standardised guidelines for data & code quality control in #ecology & #evolutionarybiology, on behalf of @sortee.bsky.social 🔓 doi.org/10.24072/pcj... #OpenScience #EEB [1/5]

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The SORTEE guidelines for data and code quality control in ecology and evolutionary biology

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Paolo Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

🚨 Zoom Talk 🚨 Thu 19th 4pm CET I present the results of the strain (tinyurl.com/2b6wxx5r) drain (arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820) & PISS (arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563) papers at the Peer-Community In Webinar series. Info: peercommunityin.org/pci-webinar-... Let's debate the future of publishing together!

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Peer Community In @peercommunityin.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

The journal @insectessociaux.bsky.social is now PCI-friendly! 🎉 Curious about what this means for authors and the journal? Be sure to check out this great interview with @jmeunierearwig.bsky.social to find out more!

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Peer Community In @peercommunityin.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

The 14th PCI webinar is in 10 days ❗❗Details and registration at peercommunityin.org/pci-webinar-...

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Peer Community In @peercommunityin.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

This week, PCI is attending the Researcher to Reader Conference 2026 (r2rconf.com) in London. Thomas Guillemaud joined a panel on independent peer review models, featuring Katherine Brown from The Company of Biologists, Peter Rodgers from eLife, and moderated by Jonny Coates of Rippling Ideas.

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Peer Community In @peercommunityin.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

We are thrilled to announce Paolo Crosetto's presentation titled "The Drain of Scientific Publishing: Why Publishing Has Become a Challenge for Science and How It Can Be Improved" in our upcoming PCI Webinar on March 19th at 4 PM (GMT+1)!! 🤩 To learn more and sign up, please visit buff.ly/bxYWPCz

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PCI Webinar Series - Peer Community In

The PCI webinar series is a series of seminars on research practices, publication practices, evaluation, scientific integrity, meta-research, organised by Peer Community In

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ASAPbio @asapbio.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Would you like to support #preprints 📰 but don't know how? Or maybe you don't have much time? ⏳ Below you can find several tips, some of which will only take 5 minutes! ⏲️ #OpenScience

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Peer Community In @peercommunityin.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

The Psychology Research Institute (INPSY) joined the ranks of PCI supporters in 2026. Many thanks to them! 🙏 inpsy.fss.muni.cz/en

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Peer Community In @peercommunityin.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

The PCI-PCJ 2025 recap is here! ✨ Dive into the events of 2025 👀: peercommunityin.org/2026/01/07/p... Huge thanks to everyone who contributed to an amazing year! 🙏 #PCI2025 #Highlights

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Peer Community In @peercommunityin.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

A first recommended read for this new year, 'Rising Publication Costs Strain Researchers' in The Scientist (featuring PCI 😎): www.the-scientist.com/rising-publi...

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Peer Community In @peercommunityin.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Did you know that you can now directly submit your preprints hosted on DIGITAL.CSIC to PCI? Check out the short video from CSIC's Library and Archive Network: www.youtube.com/shorts/tWQgs.... For more information, visit: peercommunityin.org/2024/09/18/d....

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Solicitud en DIGITAL.CSIC de revisión por pares a Peer Community in (PCI)

Video informativo sobre el servicio de revisión por pares de Peer Community in (PCI) para documentos depositados en el repositorio institucional, DIGITAL.CSIC Descarga el folleto en:…

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Ludo Waltman @ludowaltman.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Very much enjoyed last week's meeting in Cambridge about the Publish-Review-Curate (PRC) model for scholarly publishing. There were lots of highly inspiring discussions, including an important discussion about strengthening coordination between initiatives in this area. asapbio.org/reimagining-...

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Reimagining Scholarly Publishing: Outcomes From A Public Forum To Discuss The Publish, Review, Curate (PRC) Publishing Model – ASAPbio

At a meeting held on the 3rd December 2025 at Kings College, Cambridge over 50 delegates, comprising researchers, publishers, librarians, research funders and

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Peer Community In @peercommunityin.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

PCI Statistics and Machine Learning (@pcistatml.bsky.social) is now open for submissions!! statml.peercommunityin.org For an updated list of all the thematic PCIs, visit peercommunityin.org/current-pcis/

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PCI Statistics and Machine Learning

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Peer Community In @peercommunityin.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

In case you have missed Simine Vazire's excellent webinar yesterday, here is the link to watch it online: youtu.be/_vb1CNwC3CM Thanks again @simine.com for staying up so late and thanks to the audience for the great questions!

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PCI Webinar series #13 - Simine Vazire - Recognizing and responding to a replication crisis

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CNRS @cnrs.fr · 01/12/2025

From January 1st 2026, the CNRS will cut access to one of the largest commercial bibliometric databases, Clarivate Analytics' Web of Science, along with the Core Collection and Journal Citation Reports.

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The CNRS is breaking free from the Web of Science

From January 1st 2026, the CNRS will cut access to one of the largest commercial bibliometric databases, Clarivate Analytics'

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Paolo Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Since AI slop is again all over Scientific Reports, a thread on the economics of grey-zone publishing. Why does slop keep getting published? What does it mean for science? How can we stop this? Background readings: Understand the strain: tinyurl.com/2b6wxx5r Stop the drain: tinyurl.com/3jfscscy

An obviously AI-generated figure with AI slop and fake text all over it, recently published in Scientific Reports.

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Peer Community In @peercommunityin.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

The first article recommended by @psych.peercommunityin.org is now published in PCJ!!

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cOAlition S @coalitions-oa.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

1/ cOAlition S announces its 2026–2030 strategy, guided by a refreshed, shared vision: a scholarly communication system that enables rapid, open, transparent & equitable sharing of trustworthy scientific knowledge. www.coalition-s.org/coalition-s-... #OpenScience #ScholarlyComm #Plan_S #OpenAccess

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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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Peer Community In @peercommunityin.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

📣 Save the date for the 13th PCI webinar on December 1st, 2025, at 4 PM CET!! Simine Vazire (University of Melbourne, Australia) will present "Recognizing and responding to a replication crisis: Lessons from Psychology". For more details and registration, visit: buff.ly/wZNoD2v

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Peer Community In @peercommunityin.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

We sincerely thank Erasmus University Rotterdam for their support in 2025 via the Erasmus Diamond Open Access Fund 🙏 www.eur.nl/en/library/r...

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European University Association (EUA) @eua.eu · 22/10/2025

The Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) has released “A Practical Guide to Implementing Responsible Research Assessment at Research Performing Organizations”, designed to help research performing organizations. ℹ️ Learn more at bit.ly/4gSzFA6 @dorassessment.bsky.social

A person holding a publication titled "A Practical Guide to Implementing Responsible Research Assessment at Research Performing Organizations" by DORA, in front of a bookshelf.

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