Ethics in publishing, my other research interests, as well as personal posts 𝕏: https://x.com/fake_journals LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/103288284/admin/page-posts/published/https://bsky.app/profile/grahamkendall.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/grahamkendall.bsky.social/post/3mwxgl65jbl2qGiven my research interests, I seem to come across the phrase “paper mill” almost every day. I have a pretty good idea what that means. But it made me wonder: how many other types of “mill” are there in higher education and scholarly publishing? A few obvious ones come to mind: 🧵03 Oct 2026 08:07 +0000at://did:plc:2wmgd3di4gk2loahrtvmredr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwxgl65jbl2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/grahamkendall.bsky.social/post/3mwx24fitqb2mYou become Editor-in-Chief of a journal. A few weeks later, someone raises serious concerns about a paper published five years ago. The previous editor handled the submission, selected the reviewers and made the decision to publish. 🧵03 Oct 2026 04:24 +0000at://did:plc:2wmgd3di4gk2loahrtvmredr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwx24fitqb2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/grahamkendall.bsky.social/post/3mwwogovbkm2hVery nice to visit UCSI University earlier this week and meet with the VC, Datuk Prof Dr Siti Hamisah Tapsir. I have the honour of being an adjunct Professor with UCSI and I hope to be able to continue working with them, perhaps even more closely, ove the coming months.03 Oct 2026 00:55 +0000at://did:plc:2wmgd3di4gk2loahrtvmredr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwwogovbkm2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/grahamkendall.bsky.social/post/3mwuzu26k5r2u"Using AI, a professor wrote 200 papers this year. Researchers are alarmed." Interesting article in The Washington Post. I'd be interested in your views. buff.ly/DEPcUnx02 Oct 2026 09:14 +0000at://did:plc:2wmgd3di4gk2loahrtvmredr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwuzu26k5r2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/grahamkendall.bsky.social/post/3mwsa2yfck32jYou are the Editor-in-Chief and someone challenges a paper that was published five years ago. Is it your problem? buff.ly/DYVdccL01 Oct 2026 06:27 +0000at://did:plc:2wmgd3di4gk2loahrtvmredr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwsa2yfck32jhttps://bsky.app/profile/grahamkendall.bsky.social/post/3mwrxyzety62eI wonder whether we are teaching people to use AI the wrong way around. A lot of AI training starts with the technology. What is generative AI? How do large language models work? What is prompting? What are agents? Which tools should you use? What are their features? 🧵01 Oct 2026 04:03 +0000at://did:plc:2wmgd3di4gk2loahrtvmredr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwrxyzety62ehttps://bsky.app/profile/grahamkendall.bsky.social/post/3mwrknnqpb727Received this email from the Journal of Marketing & Supply Chain Management (ISSN: 2754-6683). One of the formats you can submit is a Powerpoint presentation. This made me wonder, has anybody published a powerpoint presentation in a journal which is considered both high quality and legitimate? 🧵01 Oct 2026 00:04 +0000at://did:plc:2wmgd3di4gk2loahrtvmredr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwrknnqpb727https://bsky.app/profile/grahamkendall.bsky.social/post/3mwqgh7ftt62zYou do not need to know everything about AI, so stop trying and start using it buff.ly/gZyhWWl30 Sep 2026 13:16 +0000at://did:plc:2wmgd3di4gk2loahrtvmredr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwqgh7ftt62zhttps://bsky.app/profile/grahamkendall.bsky.social/post/3mwpvhe6xzd2eI receiced a request to do a review. Among the instructions was to look out for plagiarsim and AI generated text and report it on a separate form. Is this not what AI (or even TurnItIn) should should be doing for us? Are peer reviewers not under enough pressure already? 🧵30 Sep 2026 08:12 +0000at://did:plc:2wmgd3di4gk2loahrtvmredr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwpvhe6xzd2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/grahamkendall.bsky.social/post/3mwp4zwzkcu2yReceived an email from the Journal of Marketing & Supply Chain Management (ISSN: 2754-6683) (see second image - from a previous post). I took a look at their home page. 🧵30 Sep 2026 00:55 +0000at://did:plc:2wmgd3di4gk2loahrtvmredr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwp4zwzkcu2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/grahamkendall.bsky.social/post/3mwmit7gs7b2eSaw this on the web site of Edelweiss Applied Science and Technology (E_ISSN: 2576-8484). The second image shows the more detailed page. If you are a Stanford top 2% author, you can get complete waiver of article Processing Charges (APCs). What do you think about this? 🧵28 Sep 2026 23:48 +0000at://did:plc:2wmgd3di4gk2loahrtvmredr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwmit7gs7b2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/grahamkendall.bsky.social/post/3mwl5mzpnhd2nDelighted to have just been informed that this paper has been accepted. Going through copy editing at the moment (so the abstract may change) but very happy to have got this paper over the line as it is a topic that is close to my heart.28 Sep 2026 10:55 +0000at://did:plc:2wmgd3di4gk2loahrtvmredr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwl5mzpnhd2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/grahamkendall.bsky.social/post/3mwkgtfycbe2nThe scale of AI may itself be becoming a barrier to its adoption. Every day seems to bring another model, tool or capability, making it increasingly difficult for anyone to feel that they are keeping up. 🧵28 Sep 2026 04:07 +0000at://did:plc:2wmgd3di4gk2loahrtvmredr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwkgtfycbe2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/grahamkendall.bsky.social/post/3mwkdemranj2zI did a search on Scopus for all retracted papers published in 2020. I next looked for the paper with the most citations. So, a paper published in 2000, has 4,000 citations. Let that sink in - I'll return to this in future posts.28 Sep 2026 03:05 +0000at://did:plc:2wmgd3di4gk2loahrtvmredr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwkdemranj2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/grahamkendall.bsky.social/post/3mwicyluh5q27In 2025, I wrote an article in The Conversation asking whether artificial intelligence could eventually take a seat in the company boardroom. In that article, I discussed Alan Turing’s famous test [1]. 🧵27 Sep 2026 07:53 +0000at://did:plc:2wmgd3di4gk2loahrtvmredr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwicyluh5q27https://bsky.app/profile/grahamkendall.bsky.social/post/3mwiciiwecn2fA paper is retracted. What happens to everything that cited it? buff.ly/wy6KaR527 Sep 2026 07:44 +0000at://did:plc:2wmgd3di4gk2loahrtvmredr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwiciiwecn2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/grahamkendall.bsky.social/post/3mwftcr4hfc2rIt's been a busy week this week. I've put in a couple of 3am'ers. Not that I am complaining - I actually don't mind working deep into the night. That probably goes back to the time I used to work night shifts, which I always enjoyed. 🧵26 Sep 2026 08:07 +0000at://did:plc:2wmgd3di4gk2loahrtvmredr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwftcr4hfc2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/grahamkendall.bsky.social/post/3mwfgacpwlz2mA paper you cited has just been retracted. Should you now be worried about your own paper? Not necessarily. There is an important difference between citing a paper and depending upon it. 🧵26 Sep 2026 04:13 +0000at://did:plc:2wmgd3di4gk2loahrtvmredr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwfgacpwlz2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/grahamkendall.bsky.social/post/3mwf36aojnr2eA few months ago, I wrote about one of the perennial challenges in universities: can we ever create a workload model that everyone believes is fair? 🧵26 Sep 2026 00:55 +0000at://did:plc:2wmgd3di4gk2loahrtvmredr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwf36aojnr2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/grahamkendall.bsky.social/post/3mwdglm5aum2rAre we creating a double standard around AI in academic publishing? Authors may increasingly use AI to help prepare a paper, provided they declare its use appropriately. But reviewers are often told they must not use AI to help review that same paper. 🧵25 Sep 2026 09:14 +0000at://did:plc:2wmgd3di4gk2loahrtvmredr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwdglm5aum2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/grahamkendall.bsky.social/post/3mwcoe6bpak2jDelighted to be giving a keynote talk today I'll be talking about "Artificial Intelligence is here to stay but how will it be governed". Also looking forward to hear what my fellow keynote speakers have to say: buff.ly/wDPBhb6 Many thanks to Mahsa University for the invite - greatly appreciated.25 Sep 2026 02:00 +0000at://did:plc:2wmgd3di4gk2loahrtvmredr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwcoe6bpak2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/grahamkendall.bsky.social/post/3mwafhstlmb2eWhat happens when AI makes someone much more productive, but nobody else knows? Imagine that a task used to take an employee three hours. They discover a way of using AI that reduces it to 45 minutes, with no loss of quality. Should they tell their manager? 🧵24 Sep 2026 04:16 +0000at://did:plc:2wmgd3di4gk2loahrtvmredr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwafhstlmb2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/grahamkendall.bsky.social/post/3mw7xfaohaw2eSaw this recent (August 2026) paper. It's #OA so is available to all. What drew my attention was the call for more transparency about article processing charges (APCs), which you don't often see, although I did write on this topic in a 2025 article in The Journal of Academic Librarianship. 🧵24 Sep 2026 00:04 +0000at://did:plc:2wmgd3di4gk2loahrtvmredr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mw7xfaohaw2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/grahamkendall.bsky.social/post/3mw6c6vqj622rWhen you look at a CV, what do you look at first? For me, two things tend to catch my eye. First, how long has the person spent in each role? I am interested in the overall pattern. 🧵23 Sep 2026 08:12 +0000at://did:plc:2wmgd3di4gk2loahrtvmredr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mw6c6vqj622rhttps://bsky.app/profile/grahamkendall.bsky.social/post/3mw5jrizuqo2q1️⃣ I received an invite to receive an award, saying "Based on your profile and achievements, you have been selected for an award, to be presented on stage during the ceremony." 🧵23 Sep 2026 00:55 +0000at://did:plc:2wmgd3di4gk2loahrtvmredr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mw5jrizuqo2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/grahamkendall.bsky.social/post/3mw3orqdwpl2eAI Is changing your organisation, whether you planned it or not buff.ly/IVWK4gX22 Sep 2026 07:19 +0000at://did:plc:2wmgd3di4gk2loahrtvmredr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mw3orqdwpl2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/grahamkendall.bsky.social/post/3mw2vkr53va2gEvery so often I look at who is publishing what, and how often. When I was looking at the the last three years, I saw that Scientific Reports has more documents indexed on Scopus that any other outlet. 🧵21 Sep 2026 23:48 +0000at://did:plc:2wmgd3di4gk2loahrtvmredr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mw2vkr53va2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/grahamkendall.bsky.social/post/3mvzkejoqse23I have now published almost 30 editions of my newsletter that focuses on Governance, Leadership and Research. I collect stats after 24 hours of an edition being published, as well as just before the next edition is published - so, about 7 days after being published. 🧵21 Sep 2026 10:55 +0000at://did:plc:2wmgd3di4gk2loahrtvmredr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvzkejoqse23https://bsky.app/profile/grahamkendall.bsky.social/post/3mvyq446vav2sWhen I look at a CV, it frustrates me when the list of published papers is presented with the oldest one first (e.g. 2002 to 2026, rather than 2026 to 2002). Is this just me?21 Sep 2026 03:05 +0000at://did:plc:2wmgd3di4gk2loahrtvmredr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvyq446vav2shttps://bsky.app/profile/grahamkendall.bsky.social/post/3mvwpq63hx42mAlmost six years ago to the day, I wrote an article in The Star titled, "Neccesity is the Mother of Invention." That article was reflecting on how we had transitioned overnight to on-line teaching in response to the pandemic, saying that 🧵20 Sep 2026 07:53 +0000at://did:plc:2wmgd3di4gk2loahrtvmredr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvwpq63hx42m