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Lifetime of passionate research reduced to a soulless number.

Tomas Zvolensky, 11 December 2024
Soft lobby of journals, metric keepers, and faculty are part of a closed circle.Academics are victims of a crooked citation and metric system. And they mostly don’t even...

Signal, noise, and scholarly survival

Tomas Zvolensky, 27 November 2024
The zounds of useless papers are not the problem, it’s the contradicting requirements on journals. The many papers you’re not interested in are increasing noise...

Professors should not be journal editors

Tomas Zvolensky, 3 April 2024
Academics generally have many responsibilities by default - being an editor of a journal should not be one of them because it helps only publishers. For a moment, think back to...

The issue of special issues

Tomas Zvolensky, 1 March 2024
Academic publishers worldwide are one of the three components of todays’ research ecosystem including funders and researchers. Workload pressure on the individual...

Yang Miao - exchange changes your view on research

Tomas Zvolensky, 14 February 2024
In Scholars Share, Frelsi interviews academics and researchers in Electrical Engineering on various research-related topics and their personal motivations, experiences, and...

Downward spiral of SBPR and journal IF

Tomas Zvolensky, 1 February 2024
Research journals using single blind peer review (SBPR) combined with the importance of impact factor (IF) create an environment where reviewers can reject papers almost...

Andrea Alù - forget H-index, get tenured with one published paper

Tomas Zvolensky, 8 January 2024
In Scholars Share, Frelsi interviews academics and researchers in Electrical Engineering on various research-related topics and their personal motivations, experiences, and...

Too many research publications

Tomas Zvolensky, 13 December 2023
With the skyrocketing number of papers published in the 20th and 21st centuries, a major reservation academics have about the scholarly publication system is one of too many...

Josep Jornet - from Ph.D. student to full professor in 10 years

Tomas Zvolensky, 30 November 2023
In Scholars Share, Frelsi interviews academics and researchers in Electrical Engineering on various research-related topics and their personal motivations, experiences, and...

Academic Merit 2.0

Tomas Zvolensky, 15 November 2023
Talking about shortcomings of impact factor (IF) as a measure of the quality of the work researchers do often dies out at ‘yeah, but what better system should be used...

Get cOAlition S funding

Tomas Zvolensky, 6 November 2023
Get ready for the open future, publish in Frelsi now and easily receive funding from Coalition S funding bodies in the future. Researchers should publish to flourish, not &lsquo...

Just doing my work

Tomas Zvolensky, 25 October 2023
Regardless of one's interest in politics or academic publishing, people sometimes think they simply "live their lives", or "just do their work". They are not interested in the...

Academic echo chamber

Tomas Zvolensky, 11 October 2023
The tides in academic publishing are changing slowly, but surely. In June 2021, Utrecht University removed the journal impact factor (IF) from the promotion and hiring criteria....

Mistaken as predatory

Tomas Zvolensky, 22 September 2023
Is Frelsi one of those publishers you should avoid? On the contrary, read to learn why. A concern with new journals or publishing platforms that are different or not driven by...

Wokeness of science, predatory journals, and events

Tomas Zvolensky, 11 September 2023
Why the line dividing the established and predatory publishing is much thinner than you would expect. #GradSchool #ECRchat, #research, #AcademicLife, #PeerReview, #AmReading, ...

Short history of peer review

Tomas Zvolensky, 4 February 2021
While the story of the research paper peer review is much shorter than the history of the universe, it deserves our full attention (pun intended). Remembering the past is...

Untold code of successful grad school

Tomas Zvolensky, 15 December 2020
Navigating the path to a Ph.D. degree has many caveats. The wealth of instruction and personal accounts is but a google away, at least regarding the technicalities you need to...

Greening grass behind the paywall

Tomas Zvolensky, 27 October 2020
Based on progressively increasing unrest among scholars about publishing practices, open access (OA) journals became abundant. Unfortunately, also have the predatory journals...

Imagine researchers had downtime in December

Tomas Zvolensky, 4 February 2020
Hopefully, you have enjoyed a nice, food-laden downtime surrounded by family and friends during the last Christmas season. At least that is the general idea around the globe....

How to make publishing great again

Tomas Zvolensky, 26 November 2019
#MakePublishingGreatAgain, #Frelsi, #ECRchat, #AcademicLife, #AcWri, #AmWriting, #AmReading, #PhDchat  Many academics and non-academics as well have acknowledged...

Quick and simple, why are we here & how it works

Tomas Zvolensky, 27 October 2019
For those who prefer video over written explanations, here is a three minute video about Frelsi publication model and why should you care about publishing with us in the first...

Andrea Neto - why science works the best when left uncontrolled

Tomas Zvolensky, 2 September 2019
#PublishOrPublish, #Professor, #MakePublishingGreatAgain, #AcWri, #AcademicLife, #AmWriting, #AmReading, #PhDchat, #ECRchat, #Frelsi  Welcome to another interview from...

First published paper. The review can begin

Tomas Zvolensky, 7 August 2019
#MakePublishingGreatAgain, #AcWri, #AcademicLife, #GetYourManuscriptOut, #AmWriting, #AmReading, #PhDchat, #ECRchat, , #Frelsi, #PublishOrPublish We are very excited and happy...

Okan Yurduseven - become an associate professor in your early thirties

Tomas Zvolensky, 11 July 2019
#PublishOrPublish, #Professor, #MakePublishingGreatAgain, #AcWri, #AcademicLife, #AmWriting, #AmReading, #PhDchat, #ECRchat, #Frelsi  Welcome to the first of a series of...

Where do Electrical Engineering scientists publish and why

Tomas Zvolensky, 17 June 2019
#MakePublishingGreatAgain, #AcWri, #AcademicLife, #GetYourManuscriptOut, #AmWriting, #AmReading, #PhDchat, #ECRchat, , #Frelsi, #PublishOrPublish As electrical engineers, we...

The collapse of a 'Research paper'

Tomas Zvolensky, 18 May 2019
#AcademicLife, #MakePublishingGreatAgain, #AcWri, #GetYourManuscriptOut, #AmWriting, #AmReading, #PhDchat, #ECRchat, #ScholarSunday, #Frelsi, #PublishOrPublish Key points Trust...

Superhero of science

Tomas Zvolensky, 9 May 2019
#MakePublishingGreatAgain, #Frelsi, #OpenAccess, #SciencePublishing, #ElectricalEngineering, #PublishOrPublish Deep down, we all want to become heroes, avengers, superwomen. In...

The NO. 1 problem of academic publishing

Tomas Zvolensky, 21 April 2019
#MakePublishingGreatAgain, #Frelsi, #OpenAccess, #SciencePublishing, #ElectricalEngineering, #PublishOrPublish To be tenured as a university professor nowadays is on par with...