Nicolas Clairis

Also note that stats were done with non-parametric tests, and the only groups that are not different are the [for-profit associated with a scientific society] vs [university press], otherwise all the 2-by-2 posthoc tests are significant (p<=0.005; the 4 groups being: FP/FP with a Society/UP/NP)

and indeed the opposite holds true in the for-profit group:
mean = 2635€
median = 2543€
while in the non-profit + UP as you observed:
mean = 1996€
median = 2228€

thanks for the fbk, yeah sounds likely, you can already see it on the where to publish website if you filter the data by publisher type. There are more diamond OA (0€ APC) in the non-profit group while the extreme high outliers are more concentrated in the for-profit group

@diegoharta.bsky.social @phylogenetrips.bsky.social

To conclude: check our Where To Publish database and don't hesitate to also play with the data which can easily be downloaded from the website!
#OpenAccess #ScientificSky #ScientificPublicationSystem #Science #articleProcessingCharges #AcademicSky #OpenScience
4/4

Side note: the APC values are mostly indicative and are mostly based on the openAPC database (www.openapc.net)
3/4

Notably, non-profit journals are the definitive winners and are even cheaper than university press journals with an average 1792 +/- 90€ of APCs!
This is clearly a call for change but sadly, for-profit journals clearly dominate the market with 71% of the journals in the database being for-profit..

Also unsurprisingly, the difference is statistically significant (p<0.001) and the average price is even higher when looking at for-profit journals that are NOT associated with one way or another to a scientific society:
2829 +/- 53€
2/4

Based on our WhereToPublish database, we were curious to see if the APCs depend on the publisher type and with relatively no surprise at all, the journals that are for-profit are way above:
For-profit journals = 2635 +/- 37€ (mean +/- sem)
Non-profit & University Press journals = 1996 +/- 63€
1/4

Academic publishers defeat lawsuit over ‘peer review’ pay, other restrictions A group of major academic publishers convinced a judge in New York to dismiss a lawsuit accusing them of thwarting competition by barring scholars from submitting papers to multiple journals simultane...

Unsurprising, but still sad that it didn't work out www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

If you work at the intersection of computational neuroscience and machine learning, consider applying for this postdoc position (January 2027 start date):
academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/15868
An opportunity to work with a great group of people across Harvard, MIT, and UC Berkeley.

Little error on the contact email: this is the correct adress wheretopublish-contact at protonmail.com

and for those in ecology & evolution, there is also the DAFNEE database which hilights specifically ethical journals in that field dafnee.isem-evolution.fr and that we also exploited to build where to publish. Thanks @nicolasgaltier.bsky.social for the exchanges!

Because they are a for-profit journal that wants to make money and they know that topic is hot within and beyond scientists... just a wild guess 😁

For more literature on the subject, you can also look at all the great work done by @hansonmark.bsky.social, @paolocrosetto.bsky.social and colleagues bsky.app/profile/hans...

Change is possible and alternatives exist. Let’s make it happen!
If you would like to contribute, don’t hesitate to write to us at wheretopublish@protonmail.com or directly via contributing on the database or website.
#ScientificPublicationSystem
#OpenAccess
#OpenScience
#AcademicSky
4/4

You can use this database both to choose where to publish your next paper based on the publisher type, the APC and the business model of the journal, as well as to select which journals you are ok to review for or to act as an editor for. 3/4

There is a growing consensus in academia that the current scientific publishing system needs to change. Where to Publish? was built as a database of all life-science journals to promote that change by highlighting journals that are open access and whose revenues directly serve Academia. 2/4

Dear all, I'm happy to present you a side project done with @diegoharta.bsky.social @phylogenetrips.bsky.social & Lucas Baudouin regarding the publication landscape in Biology: wheretopublish.github.io 1/4

World Greek Language Day Following the decision adopted at the recent UNESCO General Conference concerning the Greek language and its contribution to universal culture, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural

Happy World Greek Language Day! Καλή μέρα σε όλους! www.unesco.org/en/articles/... #greek #greekLanguageDay

Figure 1 from the paper. Econ: from 2008 to 2024, methods aiming for causal inference have increased, theoretical work has decreased. Psych: Mostly experimental or descriptive correlational work.

Just learned about this study looking at methodological trends in psych and econ over time: online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art....

Matches my perception well: Nobody in psych bothers to (explicitly) try causal inference unless they conducted an experiment, not a lot of theoretical work either.

Institut Pasteur (@pasteur.fr) is recruiting new young PIs to open new groups in the Institute. Deadline is February 9th! Don't miss the opportunity!

Feedback-induced attitudinal changes in risk preferences Nature Communications - Normative theory predicts that feedback should not affect decisions under risk, but past findings disagree. Here, the authors show that feedback shifts risk-taking by...

🧵 New paper in @NatureComms
Feedback-induced attitudinal changes in risk preferences
Nasioulas, Potier, Cerrotti, Lebreton & me (2026)
Does feedback really improve risky decision-making? Short answer: no! it changes attitudes, not learning. 👇
rdcu.be/e0VcO

@legorafi.bsky.social devrait déclarer forfait face à la réalité à ce stade.

A prefrontal cortex map based on single-neuron activity - Nature Neuroscience The authors mapped spontaneous and choice activity across mouse prefrontal cortex. The activity maps aligned with intrinsic connectivity rather than anatomical subregions, suggesting that connectivity...

Main postdoc study out! We can redefine prefrontal cortex regions with single-unit activity! Grateful to @carlenlab.bsky.social and @weltgeischt.bsky.social who made this crazy project real. Thanks to all co-authors, collaborators, and reviewers.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Three major research universities opt out of new Elsevier deal Complaints over ‘price increases’ and open access models spur UK institutions to walk away from offer from publishing giant, despite nationally negotiated agreement

Kent, Essex and apparently Sussex all decline to be gouged by Elsevier Read & Publish deals. Others may well follow. 1/2

Merci pour l'éclairage! Je n'ai pas assez suivi la littérature sur le sujet pour avoir un avis très tranché donc tous vos éléments de réflexion là-dessus sont intéressants.

Oui, When Prophecy Fails, l'étude fondatrice de la théorie de la dissonance cognitive repose sur des faits fabriqués :
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/....

Une "dissonance cognitive" auquelle beaucoup restent accrochés, dont G. Bronner, malgré les critiques connues du concept (et c'est meta 💀)

Le sentiment d’injustice nourrit les théories du complot Une théorie du complot ne naît pas simplement d’une perception négative des « élites » qui tireraient les ficelles dans l’ombre. Encore faut-il, pour ceux et celles qui y croient, un sentiment d’être ...

Merci pour ce super thread! Dans le cas des théories complotistes j'avais trouvé super intéressantes les études montrant un lien avec les inégalités sociales suggérant qu'il s'agit d'un phénomène social avant tout www.sciencepresse.qc.ca/actualites-s...

@albertm.bsky.social à prendre en compter dans tes futurs talks sur les biais cognitifs (si pas déjà le cas)!