Editorial

The Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) has signed its first consortium agreement in North America, marking a significant milestone for the fully Open Access publisher. The agreement is with the Federal Science Libraries Network (FSLN) and will last for two years. Five Canadian federal agencies will gain access to MDPI’s Institutional Open Access Program (IOAP), including significant discounts on article processing charges for affiliated scholars across its portfolio of 475 journals.

ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, is proud to celebrate the strong success of its publications in the latest Journal Citation Reports (JCR) from Clarivate Analytics, with over 75% of ACM journals indexed in the JCR increasing their impact factors and the highest number to date of journals ranked in the first quartile in one or more categories. Leading survey and tutorial journal ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR) continued its multi-year ascent in the rankings with an all-time-high impact factor of 28.0, taking top ranking in the Computer Science, Theory & Methods category for the second year in a row.

Canadian Science Publishing (CSP), an independent not-for-profit publisher with a strong reputation for excellence in scientific journal publishing, has acquired Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience (JPN) from CMA Impact Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of the Canadian Medical Association, effective September 2, 2025. 

We're proud to announce that our portfolio now includes 21 journals with a Journal Impact Factor, a testament to the quality and influence of the research we publish. Several of our journals saw impressive year-over-year increases and received special distinctions, highlighting their growing prominence.

Wiley is excited to announce a new publishing partnership with the Royal Society Te Apārangi. This strategic alliance, beginning in 2026, represents a major step forward for the Society’s eight journals, and for Aotearoa New Zealand’s research community.

Nature, one of the world’s leading scientific journals and part of Springer Nature, has announced a strong step forward in its commitment to research transparency. From this week, all primary research articles submitted to Nature will automatically undergo transparent peer review (TPR) as standard, if they are selected for publication.

We are thrilled to announce a major Preprints.org milestone: With your help, we have surpassed 100,000 preprints posted! This achievement was made possible by our authors, readers, Advisory Board Members and screeners. We’re thrilled to mark this significant step forward in our mission to advance open science. 

Clarivate Plc (NYSE:CLVT), a leading global provider of transformative intelligence, today released the 2025 update to the Journal Citation Reports (JCR). This is the 50th anniversary of the industry-leading annual reports, which provide a comprehensive overview of the world's leading and trusted academic journals, offering academic institutions, researchers, and publishers the ability to gauge journals’ trustworthiness and impact. 

IOP Publishing (IOPP) is advancing open science and research impact by assigning Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) to supplementary data files submitted alongside research papers. This initiative will make supplementary materials more Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reproducible (FAIR), ensuring that authors receive greater recognition for their contributions beyond the primary research article.

An opportunity not to be missed! MDPI Books warmly invites all Social Sciences, Arts, and Humanities (SSAH) researchers to submit a proposal to its inaugural book competition. The winning entries will be published free of charge on the MDPI Books platform. The selected authors will be able to showcase their expertise to a global audience, contributing to broader conversations on the role of SSAH in addressing key global challenges.

Every year, over three million scientific papers are published—a figure that doubles roughly every nine years. This massive output rests on the assumption that each publication adds a measurable contribution to the world’s knowledge base. But in practice, the academic system treats nearly all papers the same, relying on blunt proxies like citation counts, journal prestige, and impact factors to infer value.

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