InfoGuides: PHYS-601 Physics Graduate Seminar: Publishing trends

Last Updated: Sep 23, 2025 3:05 PM

PIDS-digital identifies, Datasets

The role of identifiers is growing.

There are PIDS for people: ORCID, ISNI; PIDS for organizations: ROR, GRIDs; and outputs: RGISN, DATA CITE DOIs, DOIs for articles, books, datasets; ISBNs for books, ISSNs for journals…and on and on and on." Source: Celebrating Five Years of PIDapalooza ..: The Scholarly Kitchen FEB 10, 2021

Communication opportunities for authors:

REMINDER: Preprints are preliminary reports of work that have not been certified by the peer review process. You still need to follow where the authors finally publish their approved papers.

arXiv
Material is not peer-reviewed by arXiv - the contents of arXiv submissions are wholly the responsibility of the submitter and are presented “as is” without any warranty or guarantee. By hosting works and other materials on this site, arXiv, Cornell University, and their agents do not in any way convey implied approval of the assumptions, methods, results, or conclusions of the work.
Biorxiv preprints
EarthArXiv preprints
ChemRixv preprints
These are preliminary reports which have not been peer-reviewed. They should not be regarded as conclusive, guide clinical practice/health related behaviour, or be reported in news media as established information.

Publishing discussions, trends, concerns

Springer Definition of Data Articles
Elsevier definition-Data Articles
Dozens of scientific journals have vanished from the internet and no one preserved them
Disappearing bits bytes data dilemma
Today's news: The Mysterious Case of the Nonsense Papers A peer-reviewed journal published hundreds of them. Why?
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And it’s not just Springer. Elsevier, another journal-publishing giant, recently issued editorial expressions of concern about some 400 articles that had fallen “beneath the high standards” for one of its journals. Meanwhile, Taylor & Francis retracted a special issue because the guest editor had been “impersonated by a fraudulent entity.” One lesson here seems to be that handing the keys of a journal over to an unpaid guest editor might be a bad idea.

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Before and After you graduate

Predatory Journal list
Journals that publish work without proper peer review and charge scholars sometimes huge fees to submit
Retraction Watch
August 2010 Retraction Watch was launched by co-founders, Adam Marcus and Ivan Oransky.
Peer reviewed journal articles can still be withdrawn due to many reasons.

Recent projects/groups:

Reducing the Inadvertent Spread of Retracted Science (RISRS) project,

NISO Working Group to work on a Communication of Retractions, Removals, and Expressions of Concern (CORREC) Recommended Practice.