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January 26, 2026

Stop Formatting Before the Desk Reject: A Proposal for Staged Submissions

Many flagship journals reject most manuscripts at the desk-review stage, with rates of 40–80% being common

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January 30, 2025

Video: Professor Peter Bergeijk's 'On the inaccuracies of economic observations'

Video: Professor Peter Bergeijk's On the inaccuracies of economic observations

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March 17, 2024

JOTE Has a New Publishing Format: Registered Reports

We will welcome submissions for registered reports (RRs)! We see moves to publishing RRs as part of a broader, cultural move in academia towards more rigorous and transparent research.

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January 04, 2024

JOTE in Conversation: Michael Burke. "Why are publishing companies getting paid for our peer review?"

Professor of rhetoric at Utrecht University Michael Burke talks about failure and academic publishing. "Why are publishing companies getting paid for our peer review?"

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April 26, 2023

Evaluative Measures or Game-Able Targets? Academic Competition Can Turn Even Qualitative Measures into Targets for Researchers

Although the global switch from quantitative to qualitative evaluation measures is certainly necessary, without lowering academic competition they too might become game-able targets.

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February 27, 2023

How 'Recognition and Rewards' in Dutch Academia Turned Metrics into Incentives

In recent attempts to reform research assesment, metrics have explicitly become “incentives”. Yet, the Dutch debate about this transition focussed on the wrong elements.

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December 02, 2022

Not All That Shines Is Diamond: Why Open Access Publication Favors Rich Authors, Prestigious Universities and Industry-Funded Research

More and more researchers pay processing costs for publishing in Open Access, but these costs disadvantage authors who are female, early in their career or, from low-income countries.