BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:Icfo X-PUBLISHED-TTL:P1W BEGIN:VEVENT UID:69f1265a4dd92 DTSTART:20250110T110000Z SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTEND:20250110T120000Z LOCATION:ICFO Auditorium SUMMARY:ICFO | DANIEL BROCKINGTON CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACT:\nScientists are increasingly overwhelmed by the volum e of articles being published. Total articles indexed in Scopus and Web of Science have grown exponentially in recent years\; in 2022 the article to tal was ~47% higher than in 2016\, which has outpaced the limited growth & ndash\; if any &ndash\; in the number of practising scientists. Thus\, pub lication workload per scientist has increased dramatically. We define this problem as &ldquo\;the strain on scientific publishing.&rdquo\; To analys e this strain\, we present five data-driven metrics showing publisher grow th\, processing times\, and citation behaviours. We draw these data from w eb scrapes\, and from publishers through their websites or upon request. S pecific groups have disproportionately grown in their articles published p er year\, contributing to this strain. Some publishers enabled this growth by hosting &ldquo\;special issues&rdquo\; with reduced turnaround times. Given pressures on researchers to &ldquo\;publish or perish&rdquo\; to com pete for funding\, this strain was likely amplified by these offers to pub lish more articles. We also observed widespread year-over-year inflation o f journal impact factors coinciding with this strain\, which risks confusi ng quality signals. Such exponential growth cannot be sustained. The metri cs we define here should enable this evolving conversation to reach action able solutions to address the strain on scientific publishing.\n \;\nS ource: https://direct.mit.edu/qss/article/5/4/823/124269/The-strain-on-sci entific-publishing\n \;\nBIO:\nDan completed his PhD at UCL with Kathy Homewood in 1998\, a post doc with Bill Adams at Cambridge and then a sho rt lectureship at Oxford\, before moving to Manchester (the Global Develop ment Institute) in 2005. He was awarded a personal chair there in 2012. In 2015 he moved to the University of Sheffield as Director of the Sheffield Institute of International Development. He joined The Institute of Enviro nmental Science and Technology (ICTA) at UAB 2022.\nHis research covers ma ny aspects of conservation social science\, rural resource management and livelihood change. He has published on the social impacts of conservation\ , capitalism and conservation\, media and celebrity and large-N studies of NGO sectors. As well as working in Tanzania\, he has also conducted resea rch in South Africa\, Australia\, New Zealand and India. He has published around 200 papers and chapters. His books include Fortress Conservation\, Celebrity Advocacy and International Development\, Celebrity and the Envir onment\, Nature Unbound (with Rosaleen Duffy and Jim Igoe)\, The Anthropol ogy of Conservation NGOs (with Peter Billie Larson)\, Prosperity in Rural Africa? (with Christine Noe) and Contested Sustainability (with Stefano Po nte and Christine Noe). In pursuit of this work he has held 2 personal fel lowships from the ESRC and was awarded an Advanced ERC in 2022 for work on Conservation Data Justice.\n \;\n \; DTSTAMP:20260428T212754Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR