Article : The drain of scientific publishing: a call for action

Over the past decade, our community has produced a substantial body of research documenting the economic concentration of academic publishing, the rise of article processing charges (APC), and the growing reliance on proprietary data infrastructures for research evaluation. In a recent preprint with colleagues from Europe, Africa, North and South America (Beigel et al., 2025), we bring together these strands of evidence under a single conceptual framework, which we call The Drain of Scientific Publishing.

source > www.issi-society.org, 03/2026

• Mots-clés : 
• Editeur commercial,
• Publication scientifique