The October issue of Learned Publishing is now online, and is (again) packed with great articles (I may be a little biased…). To whet your appetite, here are some of my favourite articles:

Editorial: A sting in the tail? – can we trust our authors – and can anyone trust us?
French researcher attitudes to OA – do they care?
Untrustworthy authors? - Strategies used by Iranian scholars to get published – can we blame researchers for ‘dodgy’ publication strategies?
Editorial challenges – how editors attempt to control quality but are blocked by their environment
Drug advertising – unsubstantiated claims made by pharma undermine the editorial quality in the top medical journals
Regional impact – why the IF is meaningless in low income countries
Alternative impact factors – but they’re not alternative, not impact factors, and not reproducible: what they are is a scam!
Early career experiences – why inexperienced authors struggle with peer review

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Pippa

Pippa Smart

Editor-in-Chief, Learned Publishing

Learned Publishing Volume 31 No 4 October 2018 www.learned-publishing.org

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