Stefanie Haustein
Associate prof, School of Information Studies, University of Ottawa @uottawa.ca
Co-director, Scholarly Communications Lab #ScholCommLab #FirstGen
open science | bibliometrics | open access | research assessment | metascience
- Reposted by Stefanie Haustein"By far the most common misconception appearing in the RFI responses is that NIH public access policy has essentially forced researchers into a "pay-to-play" system" Christopher Steven Marcum and Corinna Turbes on some of the misconceptions about the NIH Public Access Policy.
- Reposted by Stefanie Haustein"Relx, which is the 16th largest company in the FTSE 100 index, lost just over £6 billion from its stock market value after Anthropic launched a new AI product that can help automate work for the legal industry." archive.ph/ya78V
- Reposted by Stefanie HausteinAll set for New Horizons 💎 #OpenAccess in Nijmegen! Thank you to the organisers for the opportunity to speak on the Strain, Stain, & Drain of scientific publishing. Looking forward to great conversations on moving #ScientificPublishing forward! bit.ly/StrainQSS www.horizondiamond.nl#schedule
- Reposted by Stefanie HausteinOK, day off, but I wanted to share this: codeberg.org/gbilder/inst... "Instead" is an intriguing proposal by the super-smart @gbilder.com to give AI bots a pointer to a prepackaged downloadable static version of a site. Bear with me, as I know this sounds bad at first glance.
- Reposted by Stefanie Haustein📣 Our introduction to structural causal models in science studies is now published: doi.org/10.1162/QSS.... @tklebel.bsky.social and I tried to make our introduction as accessible as possible. We illustrate the theory by three case studies based on a simulated model of Open Science. 🧵(1/6)
- Reposted by Stefanie HausteinNew resource: a practical guide to publication and cost monitoring through institutional #OpenAccess repositories. English summary: doi.org/10.59350/rhe... #OpenScience @ibi-hu.bsky.social, @humboldtuni.bsky.social
- Reposted by Stefanie HausteinNOR US! Another three UK universities decline new Elsevier deal www.timeshighereducation.com/news/three-m... - Sheffield, Lancaster and Surrey confirm they are walking away from proposed three-year deal with world’s largest academic publisher. (paywalled sorry)
- NUP! Three major research universities opt out of new Elsevier deal - Complaints over ‘price increases’ and open access models spur UK institutions to walk away from offer... (paywalled sorry) - Unis of Kent, Essex and Sussex www.timeshighereducation.com/news/three-m...
- Reposted by Stefanie HausteinThousands of scientists inflate their CVs with self-published studies that cost millions of dollars of public money 1 in 8 'special issues' is filled with articles written by the editor, particularly at the publisher MDPI @manuelansede.bsky.social english.elpais.com/science-tech...
- Reposted by Stefanie Haustein“We have to find significant non-pay budget savings so this was the obvious place to start,” www.timeshighereducation.com/news/three-m...
- Reposted by Stefanie HausteinGiven all the news about ICE in the past few weeks, can I kindly remind you all that RELX (owners of Elsevier & LexisNexis) is "mission-critical" to ICE. ICE pays RELX Group and Thomson Reuters millions of dollars for the personal data it needs to fuel its big data policing program […]
- Reposted by Stefanie Haustein@cometadata.bsky.social has been demonstrating it's possible to do big things! Matched over ~400K preprints 1/ ~2 MILLION authors to RORs—now in an openly available dataset. Come learn what we've been up to, what's next, and how to get involved. Next community call next week. Details below.
- Reposted by Stefanie HausteinIn Scientific #Publishing, Who Should Foot the Bill? undark.org/2026/01/07/a... (via @undark.org) #scholcomm #libraries @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca
- Reposted by Stefanie Haustein'And according to @eschares.bsky.social, data suggest that APCs bear almost no relation to publishing expenses. “So that tells me that APCs are not set on really what it costs to produce an article there,” he said. “It’s more prestige.”' Undark piece on who should pay for scientific publishing.
- Reposted by Stefanie Haustein🧪 I ran into this in another list. The title and the abstract of this paper is quite provocative. Table 1 with the profits of the 6 major sci publishing companies is something. arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
- Reposted by Stefanie HausteinClosing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
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View full threadReposted by Stefanie Haustein(Also, icyi, here are the 42 papers citing our non-existent paper which includes a "meta-analysis" - often called the evidence "gold standard" - of "LLM effects" in education 🤮 scholar.google.com.vn/scholar?star...)
- Reposted by Stefanie HausteinOpenAlex intégré au Web of Science, ou la capture du travail des “commoners” | carnetist.hypotheses.org/2572
- Reposted by Stefanie Haustein"Today, the system rewards commercial publishers first, and science second. Without bold action from the funders we risk continuing to pour resources into a system that prioritizes profit over the advancement of scientific knowledge". doi.org/10.48550/arX...
- Reposted by Stefanie HausteinElsevier at its best: they only embrace #openscience when it makes money and does not endanger their assets. Now that Crossref data is CC0 and used by 3rd parties (OpenAlex, Matilda,...), they just keep data in their systems @keanbirch.bsky.social #openresearchinformation @barcelonadori.bsky.social
- There seems to be a decrease in the coverage of affiliation metadata in #OpenAlex, particularly with regard to journal articles published by Elsevier since 2024. Only around 6% of Elsevier articles published in 2025 have affiliation metadata. subugoe.github.io/scholcomm_an...
- Intense discussion with The Drain authors today about where to submit Part II.. And somehow @lariviev.bsky.social launched the idea of hockey jerseys?! Thanks for your service, ChatGPT. @danbrockington.bsky.social @hansonmark.bsky.social @stephenpinfield.bsky.social @aileenfyfe.bsky.social
- Excited to join @braccolaetitia.social.sciences.re.ap.brid.gy & team at Open Science Monitoring Inititative (OSMI) as steering board member. Looking forward to work w/ Cécile Coulibaly, Moumita Koley, @susannanykyri.bsky.social & @jeroenson.bsky.social open-science-monitoring.org/meet-the-fiv...
- Nice way to finish the year with such a quote in @science.org news: "Stefanie Haustein, an information scientist at the University of Ottawa, doesn’t buy publishers’ arguments." Thank you @phiejacobs.bsky.social! doi.org/10.1126/scie...
- Reposted by Stefanie HausteinOn the 7th day before break, the OA community gave to us: Landmark research into the state of academic publishing. @hansonmark.bsky.social & team produced two papers: 'The Strain/Drain on Scientific Publishing' demonstrating the challenges we face doi.org/10.1162/qss_... doi.org/10.48550/arX...
- Reposted by Stefanie HausteinWe Need to Talk About the Billion-Dollar Industry Holding Science Hostage zmescience.com/science/news-scienc…
- Reposted by Stefanie HausteinLa ciencia bajo el control de las grandes editoriales Un estudio del ICTA-UAB liderado por @danbrockington.bsky.social revela cómo el sistema de publicación científica prioriza ganancias frente al avance del conocimiento y la integridad académica. digitum-um.blogspot.com/2025/12/la-c...
- A great first day of conference in Mendoza, discussing many aspects relevant to the drain of scientific publishing
- Excited to discuss dilemmas of #openscience and research assessment reforms in Argentina the next couple of days. Thank you to hostess extraordinaire Fernanda Beigel for bringing us together in Mendoza 🇦🇷
- Reposted by Stefanie HausteinPanel en el workshop CECIC en la UNCuyo sobre the drain of scholarly publishing con @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca @lariviev.bsky.social @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca y la anfitriona Fernanda Beigel. Un lujazo 🌟
- Excited to discuss dilemmas of #openscience and research assessment reforms in Argentina the next couple of days. Thank you to hostess extraordinaire Fernanda Beigel for bringing us together in Mendoza 🇦🇷
- Reposted by Stefanie HausteinGirls ages 16 years or younger who received HPV vaccines were 80% less likely than their unvaccinated counterparts to develop cervical cancer. Evidence from 23 studies showed that HPV vaccination lowered the incidence of high-grade cervical precancers. 🧪 www.cochrane.org/about-us/new...
- Reposted by Stefanie HausteinScientific Reports has a ⬆️ Impact Inflation: a very high IF given their citation network (self-citing, citation cartels, etc). They'll even typeset & publish AI slop for a fee! Strain: bit.ly/StrainQSS Strain explorer β: pagoba.shinyapps.io/strain_explo... #SciPub #ResearchIntegrity #AcademicSky
- "Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
- Reposted by Stefanie HausteinPublikations- und Kostenmonitoring: Handlungsfeld für institutionelle Open-Access-Repositorien. Pro OAR DE Handreichung. zenodo.org/records/17357984
- Reposted by Stefanie HausteinNature Sci Rep publishes incoherent AI slop. eLife publishes a paper which the reviewers didn't agree with, making all the comments and responses public with thoughtful commentary. One of these journals got delisted by Web of Science for quality concerns from not doing peer review. Guess which one?
- Yay, our first podcast citation @danbrockington.bsky.social @paolocrosetto.bsky.social et al. They discuss The Drain starting at minute 33:20 in the context of a protein science journal published by Wiley and also mention @elife.bsky.social. It's introduced as "almost an economics paper" :D
- They criticize our argument that we need funders and university leadership to change the system since researchers do have more agency. Of course we need researchers to move to the non-profit venues. It's just that the past 20 years that hasn't really been enough. But I like the positive outlook!
- Reposted by Stefanie Haustein🗓️ On Dec 3, the Institute for Science, Society and Policy will host the latest in its series of action dialogues addressing grand challenges at the science, society and policy interface. Don't miss the State of Science, Technology, and Innovation in Canada 2025 12 p.m. - 1:15 p.m. EST
- The tiny academic thrill of being asked a question by a student and being able to say: "Hang on, my colleagues actually wrote a paper about this…” doi.org/10.1002/asi.... @lucyces.bsky.social @diegokoz.bsky.social @lariviev.bsky.social et al. #ScholCommLab
- Reposted by Stefanie HausteinThanks to the LSE blog for the highlight! The one constant of all publishing reform efforts has been ludicrous publisher profit margins. We specifically highlight a need for funders to act. Find out more Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Strain: bit.ly/StrainQSS Oligopoly: bit.ly/OligSciPub
- 💥New: Money, Time, Trust, Control – How commercial publishers drain science ✍️ @danbrockington.bsky.social @aileenfyfe.bsky.social @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca #AcademicSky #ScholComm #AcademicPublishing
- Reposted by Stefanie Haustein🎈 Time flies! Exactly one year ago today @rorinstitute.bsky.social and @aimosinc.bsky.social launched MetaROR, a platform to publish metaresearch through the publish-review-curate approach. Over the course of the year, we published 28 articles reviewed by 59 different reviewers. [1/3]
- Reposted by Stefanie HausteinMoney, Time, Trust, Control – How commercial publishers drain science @danbrockington.bsky.social @aileenfyfe.bsky.social @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca for @lseimpactblog.bsky.social
- We summarized the Drain paper in an LSE Impact blog post this week. Please share in your networks, ideally with those we are calling to action: research funders and university leadership blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci... #AcademicSky #AcademicPublishing #OpenAccess #ScholComm
- 💥New: Money, Time, Trust, Control – How commercial publishers drain science ✍️ @danbrockington.bsky.social @aileenfyfe.bsky.social @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca #AcademicSky #ScholComm #AcademicPublishing
- Reposted by Stefanie HausteinCARL's Fall Member Meeting is off to a strong start!💡 Members met in Montebello for strategic committee meetings & discussions on Intellectual Freedom & Open Science. Thanks to keynote Randy Boyagoda & panelists @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca @lariviev.bsky.social David Tweddell & Kathleen Shearer.
- Reposted by Stefanie HausteinLa Réunion d'automne de l’ABRC démarre en force avec des présentations et riches discussions sur la liberté intellectuelle et la science ouverte.💡 Merci à notre conférencier principal Randy Boyagoda, ainsi que @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca, @lariviev.bsky.social, David Tweddell et Kathleen Shearer.
- Reposted by Stefanie HausteinThe collective profits are staggering, actually overwhelming. So, let's resist: "The good news is that if the drain has a particular history and geography, it means that it is not inevitable. It can be resisted." @danbrockington.bsky.social @aileenfyfe.bsky.social @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca
- 💥New: Money, Time, Trust, Control – How commercial publishers drain science ✍️ @danbrockington.bsky.social @aileenfyfe.bsky.social @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca #AcademicSky #ScholComm #AcademicPublishing
- It's been a fun week, but 3 presentations plus 3h of teaching in 5 days is definitely my limit. Thank you for those who came and engaged at the panels at the The Royal Society of Canada on Saturday and at @carl-abrc.bsky.social in Montebello today. (1/n)
- Also a huge thanks to @annualreviews.bsky.social for inviting me to speak at the Annual Reviews Salon Speaker Series yesterday. It was amazing to hear from so many experienced editors and editorial board members. (2/n)
- All three talks were on The Drain of Scientific Publishing but with different emphases and pieces of evidence. For those interested, you can find the slidedecks on Zenodo: RSC: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... Annual Reviews: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... CARL: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... (EN & FR) (3/n)
- Just reflecting that I have presented to university leaders, library leaders and editors. Looks like funders should be next and we can stop the drain before Christmas :P :D (4/4)
- Reposted by Stefanie Haustein💥New: Money, Time, Trust, Control – How commercial publishers drain science ✍️ @danbrockington.bsky.social @aileenfyfe.bsky.social @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca #AcademicSky #ScholComm #AcademicPublishing
- Reposted by Stefanie HausteinA paper critiquing post-publication peer review has numerous made-up references, including a @nature.com article falsely attributed to our Ivan Oransky. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
- Reposted by Stefanie HausteinThe solutions of the past 3 decades have failed to change the incentives of #PublishOrPerish. As a result, researcher funding, time, control, and trust has been lost. The ONE CONSTANT in the wake of the serial crisis, #PlanS and #OpenAccess reform has been publish profit margins. 2/n
- Reposted by Stefanie HausteinThe numbers in here are huge, ~$2.5bn in profits (~35% profit margin) to 4 major academic publishing houses. How much lost research expenditure does that equate to?? Windfall tax, anyone?
- Reposted by Stefanie HausteinThis is now canon.
- Reposted by Stefanie Haustein"Rather than democratizing scientific publishing, Open Access has helped commercial publishers generate more profits (publishers found ways to shift paywalls from readers to authors). More stringent reforms are required to tackle misaligned drivers of scientific publishing." Fernanda Beigel et al.
- The Drain of Scientific Publishing arxiv.org/pdf/2511.04820
- Reposted by Stefanie HausteinGanske sykt å se på profittmarginen til selskapene. Kanskje Norge bør fase ut oljen og heller kjøpe Elsevier 😂 Bakgrunn: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
- Reposted by Stefanie HausteinThank you for coming to my TED Talk 🎤 If you’ve read this far and still need convincing, please check out our preprint arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 and this infographic: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 10/10
- Reposted by Stefanie HausteinOver the past months (and at least 11 versions!), I was lucky to work with 11 amazing colleagues on a call to action to reform academic publishing. Not another declaration, but an appeal to our powerful friends, research funders & institutions, to Stop the Drain of Scientific Publishing. 1/n
- Talking about our recent work on The Drain of Scientific Publishing at the Royal Society of Canada #CoEE2025 on a panel with @chadgaffield.bsky.social and @abizadeh.bsky.social. 10am in Viger, 8th floor @erudit.org #AcademicSky #RoyalSociety
- Reposted by Stefanie HausteinA timely thread… as I recover from this shocker. What level of insanity is this? This is the publication fee for one paper in a journal that publishes a few hundred papers each year. 10,400 USD, but *only* 8,360 USD after the discounts…
- Reposted by Stefanie HausteinThe Drain of Scientific Publishing arxiv.org/pdf/2511.04820
- Reposted by Stefanie Haustein~$2.5bn in profits, ~35% profit margin
- Reposted by Stefanie HausteinEXCELLENT graphic on the drain of scientific publishing! zenodo.org/records/1759...
- Reposted by Stefanie HausteinLove this, I'm going to think about how we could promote it.
- Reposted by Stefanie HausteinInteresse an Bibliometrie? Kennt ihr schon die "Loseblattsammlung" aka. bibliometrische Quick Notes von unserm Kollegen @optykali.bsky.social? Ein Blick lohnt sich. Ihr findet das CC BY 4.0 lizenzierte Material hier: bibliometrics-quick-notes.github.io #bibliometrie #bibliometry #quicknotes #LIS
- Reposted by Stefanie HausteinRegretfully (for the sake of the authors and journal staff), I have this morning declined an invitation to review for a @royalsociety.org journal because of the Society’s continued refusal to stand up for its values in dealing with Elon Musk FRS.
