Science and publishing
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2026
The phenomenon of ‘value extraction’ in Open Access
Background Open Access (OA) agreements were introduced to remove financial barriers to scientific dissemination and promote equity in knowledge access. As Article Processing Charges (APCs) have shifted from individual researchers…
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The ethical risks of open-access agreements being used for authorship leverage
Transformative agreements — contracts between institutions and publishers that help to fund open-access (OA) systems — are widely presented as tools to advance equity in scientific publishing. But they can…
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2025
Mi fa male la scienza
Federico Germani e Giovanni Spitale esplorano le meraviglie e le contraddizioni della scienza: la sua straordinaria capacità di espandere i confini del sapere, ma anche le sue fragilità, i suoi…
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2024
TopicTracker – An advanced software pipeline for text mining on PubMed data: Bridging the gap between off-the-shelf tools and code based approaches
Background The ever-increasing volume of academic literature necessitates efficient and sophisticated tools for researchers to analyze, interpret, and uncover trends. Traditional search methods, while valuable, often fail to capture the…
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2020
Making sense in the flood. How to cope with the massive flow of digital information in medical ethics
This little paper discusses the (over)proliferation of academic publications and the impossibility of keeping pace with new literature. I define the issue and present a set of easily usable methodological strategies…