(Wall Street Journal) – Some scientists say the for-profit industry’s fast growth makes it harder to police fraud and low-quality work

Altogether, editors at nearly 40 journals have quit in the past decade over differences with their publishers, according to the website Retraction Watch.

These moves have come in the midst of the nearly $10 billion scholarly publishing industry’s push to publish more content than ever before.

In the past decade, every major for-profit publisher has dramatically upped its output, according to a November analysis by a group of scientists who found that scientific publishers printed 47% more papers in 2022 than they did in 2016. (Read More)