Tom Ciavarella

Politics & public affairs consulting via Smarter Learning LLC. Ex-policy & partnerships for @FrontiersIn, #WebofScience, @copyrightclear. Views mine, DMs open.

[Tom Ciavarella @tomciav]

You can also find me at https://t.co/NaW3I2rx6k now. By "find me" I mean "see that I rarely post things but will like your things."

[Tom Ciavarella @tomciav]

It's fitting that @TIME, which removed its digital paywall earlier this year, chose to publish this @FrontiersIn op-ed from Dr. Julia Kostova on @WHOSTP public access guidelines and the Cancer Moonshot. #openaccess #openscience

[Frontiers @FrontiersIn]

Realizing the goals of #CancerMoonshot by @WHOSTP will not be easy. But, with 10 million lives at stake each year, #OpenScience can help us achieve them. @TIME article by Frontiers' director of publishing and head of U.S. division, Dr Julia Kostova ⬇️

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[Tom Ciavarella @tomciav]

It's snowing. On Halloween. Again. I'm begging you, @chicago, ease up. I'm not a real Midwesterner yet. I don't have an emergency bottle of ranch or Malort.

[Tom Ciavarella @tomciav]

It is snowing in #Chicago. It is Halloween. Midwesterners, you’re not even blinking, are you? This is just an autumn Thursday to you. Teach me your ways.

[Frontiers @FrontiersIn]

Our head of US public affairs Tom Ciavarella in @insidehighered. Who’s afraid of Open Science? The public pays for billions of dollars of scientific research. The @WHOSTP wants to give them full access to its results. Are legacy commercial interests putting on the brakes?

[Tom Ciavarella @tomciav]

We thank the members of the House and Senate for bringing this important legislation forward: @MartinHeinrich @SenToddYoung @SenBooker @SenatorRounds @RepAnnaEshoo @RepMcCaul @RepDonBeyer @JayObernolte

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At @FrontiersIn we help researchers collaborate better and innovate faster. We see that same impulse in the bipartisan CREATE #AI Act to spur development of safe, reliable, and trustworthy #ArtificialIntelligence.
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[Tom Ciavarella @tomciav]

And @PredatoryReport, don’t worry about legal action if you name @ElsevierConnect and @WileyGlobal as predators, as your prior post suggested. After all, you’re purposefully anonymous so you can avoid accountability. Another reason nobody should trust what you say.

[Tom Ciavarella @tomciav]

I love how @PredatoryReport does my job for me. I notes that if society partnerships are predatory (as they assert), then they should add @ElsevierConnect and @WileyGlobal to their list of predatory publishers. I even gave them a few days to do it. For some reason they haven’t.

[Tom Ciavarella @tomciav]

@CSDisseminate @PredatoryReport Your aims are noble but @PredatoryReport is not a legitimate resource. Industry organizations such as STM, COPE, DOAJ, and OASPA are transparent, trusted, and accountable. Predatory Reports is none of these things.

[Tom Ciavarella @tomciav]

So, @PredatoryReport, you’re saying that @ElsevierConnect and @WileyGlobal, among many others, are predatory publishers. Quite the accusation. I wonder how they’ll respond.

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@Quasilocal Steve, did you see that @PredatoryReport blocked me for asking questions they cannot answer? This is not how scholars communicate. Whoever runs this site does not have researchers’ interests in mind.

[Tom Ciavarella @tomciav]

I’ve been on Twitter long enough to know that flame wars get you nowhere. But let’s be clear: this website is the worst of our industry. It’s all heat and no light. And if the owners won’t reveal themselves we should all speak out against it.

[Tom Ciavarella @tomciav]

@PredatoryReport @FrontiersIn Perhaps I’ve been unclear. First, I’m not a lawyer. Second, my tweets try to educate & clarify. Yours do the opposite. Finally, I welcome researchers to contact me via LinkedIn or Twitter to have productive conversations about how Frontiers operates. How can researchers find you?

[Tom Ciavarella @tomciav]

@Quasilocal We’re adding new journals and partners all the time, so maybe we cross paths professionally soon!

[Tom Ciavarella @tomciav]

@AlexanderUvidia @PredatoryReport Rafael, did you see that @PredatoryReport blocked me for asking questions they cannot answer? This is not how scholarly discourse should work. Whoever runs this site doesn’t have researchers’ interests in mind.

[Tom Ciavarella @tomciav]

@AlexanderUvidia @PredatoryReport They’re unable to explain anything they tweet. That’s one of many reasons why researchers should turn away from Predatory Reports. I’m happy to share others.

[Tom Ciavarella @tomciav]

All I did was ask them to show their work. @PredatoryReport

[Tom Ciavarella @tomciav]

I’ve been on Twitter long enough to know that flame wars get you nowhere. But let’s be clear: this website is the worst of our industry. It’s all heat and no light. And if the owners won’t reveal themselves we should all speak out against it.

[Tom Ciavarella @tomciav]

@PredatoryReport Another post lacking facts or context. With every tweet you prove why researchers should ignore whatever you say.

[Tom Ciavarella @tomciav]

@PredatoryReport You really can’t do an impact factor analysis, can you? With every snarky tweet researchers are realizing that you’re not worth listening to.

[Tom Ciavarella @tomciav]

@PredatoryReport “Easy to imagine,” “does not seem” — Researchers are not helped by uneducated musings. You either know how to do an impact factor analysis or you don’t. Clearly, you don’t. Reach out when you’d like to learn how.

[Tom Ciavarella @tomciav]

@PredatoryReport Do you do any of your own analysis or do you just copy and paste the work of others?

[Tom Ciavarella @tomciav]

@PredatoryReport For others reading our thread: I worked for Web of Science for 4 years. *It was my job to explain impact factors.* Whoever is behind Predatory Reports isn’t being clever — they’re showing their ignorance of scholarly publishing. The less you rely on Predatory Reports, the better.

[Tom Ciavarella @tomciav]

@PredatoryReport These are exactly the types of questions I answer every day for non-anonymous industry stakeholders. DM me with your name and email address and I’ll gladly help you understand how impact factors work.