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Post #3315401

2026-06-14 08:53 UTC

Dear researchers, I am sick of #Elsevier and their antics (ridiculous APCs, inaccessible articles, unauthorised data-mininig, etc.) and want to avoid publishing with them as much as possible. Can you suggest good journals in the following topics / fields (society journals welcome): 1. #microalgae 2. #molecularbiology 3. #crispr 4. #sustainability #opensource #openaccess #academicresearch #academia Please #boost so I can reach other academics.

Replies (14)

  • @ajayiyer@mastodon.social my view is that institutions should publish their own research online, with a managed forum below for comment. I know why it came about, but using journal impact factor as a surrogate for the value or importance of a publication has always been inadequate and has encouraged back channels and favoritism. Institutions have a good incentive to maintain ethical and publication standards because it affects their reputation

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  • @nyhan@fediscience.org 2026-06-14 10:22

    @ajayiyer@mastodon.social In the Lens, you can query for a topic, then use the filters to remove articles from publishers you want to avoid, as I have done here: https://www.lens.org/lens/search/scholar/list?q=field_of_study:%22Sustainability%22&p=0&n=10&s=_score&d=%2B&f=false&e=false&l=en&authorField=author&dateFilterField=publishedYear&orderBy=%2B_score&presentation=false&preview=true&stemmed=true&useAuthorId=false&publicationType.must=journal%20article&publisher.mustNot=Elsevier%20BV&publishedYear.from=2020&publishedYear.to=2026 After that, you can go to the Journal filter to see the relative prevalence of different journals that remain in your search results set.

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  • @darisan@openbiblio.social 2026-06-14 11:13

    @ajayiyer@mastodon.social BISON might help: https://service.tib.eu/bison/

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  • @EdtheChem@mas.to 2026-06-14 11:40

    @ajayiyer@mastodon.social The Royal Society of Chemistry have a few for 2 and 4, but which one depends on your specifics!

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  • @kskehu@mementomori.social 2026-06-14 12:06

    @ajayiyer@mastodon.social if Springer is okay, maybe Hydrobiologia? https://link.springer.com/journal/10750

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  • @ajayiyer@mastodon.social Probably not exactly your field, unfortunately, but for #ecology and #evolution there is the DAFNEE database of #academia friendly journals! Maybe you could build something similar for your field? #AcademicChatter https://dafnee.isem-evolution.fr/

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  • @SRLevine@neuromatch.social 2026-06-14 14:28

    @ajayiyer@mastodon.social PLOS Biology, Biology Open (from the Company of Biologists), eLife

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  • @ajayiyer@mastodon.social elife is interesting and they accept publish a lot of different types of papers they have an open book review process last i checked, where you can see who the reviewers are, what their comments were, researchers' replies, etc. https://elifesciences.org/browse

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  • @hydropsyche@ecoevo.social 2026-06-14 14:54

    @ajayiyer@mastodon.social Marine or freshwater? Limnology and Oceanography (journal of Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography) does both. https://www.aslo.org/limnology-and-oceanography/ Freshwater Science (journal of Society for Freshwater Science) if just freshwater. https://www.freshwater-science.org/Journal/about-fws/

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  • @Wisel@stranger.social 2026-06-14 15:29

    @ajayiyer@mastodon.social you could look into https://stacksjournal.org

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  • @colinrbeas@fediscience.org 2026-06-14 16:25

    @ajayiyer@mastodon.social Try the Directory of Open Access Journals https://doaj.org The majority do *not* charge APCs. You can filter using different criteria.

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  • @ajayiyer@mastodon.social #scholcomm Have you tried asking your academic librarian? If you were at my library we’d love to help.

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  • @M@nerdculture.de 2026-06-15 05:17

    @ajayiyer@mastodon.social no specific insights for your topic, but I'd try to avoid mdpi based journals. They still act like predatory journals.

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  • @wlukewindsor@c.im 2026-06-15 07:56

    @ajayiyer@mastodon.social @eLife@fediscience.org

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