Essays

Addendum: Acceptance rates

A brief follow up to the MDPI / Frontiers deep dive.

May 15 • James Butcher

MDPI and Frontiers: 2025 in review

An analysis of the performance of Frontiers and MDPI in 2025

May 13 • James Butcher

Springer Nature: 2025 in review

Part 2 of a series of newsletters exploring 2025 annual reports

Apr 19

Elsevier: 2025 in review

Part 1 of a series of newsletters exploring recent annual reports

Mar 31

How did the largest academic publishing companies perform in 2025?

I read the annual reports of the commercial publishers so that you don't have to.

Mar 30

Another one bites the dust

Science of The Total Environment has been delisted by Web of Science. Scientific Reports is set to publish 45,000 articles this year, likely generating…

Dec 3, 2025 • James Butcher

OUP acquires Karger's long tail

Industry consolidation continues

Nov 9, 2025 • James Butcher

Cureus loses its impact factor

Web of Science announces "Editorial De-listing"

Oct 28, 2025 • James Butcher

The rise of China and the fall of open access

The theme of Open Access Week is "Who owns our knowledge?". The answer is increasingly likely to be "China".

Oct 24, 2025 • James Butcher

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