Zuber Axel

Postdoctoral fellow

[Ilias Oikonomou @ioikonomou]

Presenting in #Flatlands2024 our project in Pt-based TMDCs/graphene hybrids for water splitting 💦 application. Many thanks to my supervisors @NicolosiGroup @ThomasHeine14, as long as @kapostolis1 , Thomas Brumme, @ZuberAxel, @brownm26 and @SoferZdenek. @ITN_2Exciting @MSCActions

[Publishing with Integrity @fake_journals]

Very interesting book by @waltcrawford. One of the most fascinating tables is the top 11 @OpenAccess publishers in 2023. The revenue figures (to me anyway) are staggering. https://t.co/rn209nosm9

[ChemElectroChem @ChemElectroChem]

Effect of the Precursor Metal Salt on the Oxygen Evolution Reaction for NiFe Oxide Materials (M. P. Browne and co-workers) @ElectroSynDev @brownm26 @ZuberAxel @ioikonomou @CMcGuinnessX @NicolosiGroup @ReithLukas @EnergycatLab @HZBde @PetitLab_Berlin https://t.co/vozBUHvm1S

[Zuber Axel @ZuberAxel]

Did my best 🎨🖌️🖼️
Thank you Michelle for sharing hehe ☺️

[Zuber Axel @ZuberAxel]

Wooo, first paper in electrocatalysis ! 🎉👨🏻‍🔬 Check it out ! 😁👇🏻
Many thanks to all our super collaborators for the work done, thanks a lot to Michelle for everything that led to that publication, and special thanks to my former intern Belin 🤗

[Zuber Axel @ZuberAxel]

@DrRisch @ElectroSynDev Thank you Marcel 😊

[Zuber Axel @ZuberAxel]

@Reshma_R_Rao @ElectroSynDev Oh, thank you Reshma 😳! It's been so long, I hope you are still doing amazing in London☺���

[Zuber Axel @ZuberAxel]

@kapostolis1 @ElectroSynDev Thanks Apostolis ! Same for you of course 😀

[Zuber Axel @ZuberAxel]

@ioikonomou Thank you very much Ilias ✌🏻

[Zuber Axel @ZuberAxel]

It's been a crazy year and a half ! 😍
Thank you very much for everything guys 😘 I'm sure we will collaborate in the future !
Hopefully we see each other soon for the summer outing 🫣

[Zuber Axel @ZuberAxel]

XAS experiments in progress @Samba_Beamline ☀️
Very exciting time on night shifts 👨🏻‍🔬

[Zuber Axel @ZuberAxel]

We had a fantastic time: super talks, super social program including lab tours at @hiern_de... And indeed many thanks to Karl for guiding everyone home and the organisation staff 😂🍺

[Zuber Axel @ZuberAxel]

@ioikonomou Happy Birthday Ilias 🎉🥳
I still think you look so young 😭
Enjoy the day ☺️

[Zuber Axel @ZuberAxel]

Talk done! 🏵️
Time to enjoy the MXene session from the back of the room ☺️
#DPG #DPG2024

[Zuber Axel @ZuberAxel]

Starting the week of conference in Berlin with the bienvenue package... Looking forward to passionating talks 🥰
Also... No DPG Notebook 🥹
#DPG2024

[Physics Memes @ThePhysicsMemes]

I feel the pain #calculus

[Andrew Akbashev @Andrew_Akbashev]

Overpublishing puts enormous stress on students and PIs.

And brings tons of money to publishers in STEM.

A new study shows that the number of papers is increasing FASTER than the number of #PhD graduates.

It’s an amazing work with very useful statistics. Huge kudos to the authors!

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Main outcomes:

1️⃣ In 2022 the number of articles is 47% higher than in 2016. The amount of writing, reviewing and editing workload per scientist is increased enormously.

2️⃣ “Special issues” is a strategy for publishing lots of papers with reduced review time. This is possible due to the “publish or perish” pressure and clearly benefits the publishers.

3️⃣ The publishing time varies widely!
MDPI = 37 days. Frontiers = 72 days. Elsevier = 134 days. Springer = 157 days. Nature = 185 days.

4️⃣ The article rejection rates do not seem to correlate with publisher growth. However, rejection rates decline with increased use of special issue publishing.

5️⃣ Certain for-profit gold-open-access publishers create an increasing number of special issues, with uniquely reduced turnaround times, and in specific cases, high impact inflation and reduced rejection rates.

6️⃣ The authors suggest a new metric - Impact Inflation, which is reflected in self-citation within the same journal. For example, MDPI has a high impact inflation due to excessive self-citation compared to other publishers.

Conclusions and my opinion:

- Scientists have to spend a lot more time on reviewing and writing than before (on average).

- The more papers are published, the more the quality is compromised.

- Scientific progress has become partially bound to the business models of publishers and their revenue (a sad reality today).

- There is a huge lack of transparency. Much of these data had to be ‘web-scraped’ from numerous sources in order to get a full picture. We clearly need regulators to mandate open access to publisher’s statistics.

- Reduce the number of special issues! Those typically have low standards.

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Science, publishing and funding make a trio that is very hard to disentangle.

However, research quality is controlled by the community.

This is why preprint + community review can make a big difference.

#AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter