This week we discuss the increasing strain on scientific publishing with Mark Hanson, a Principle Investigator from the University of Exeter, UK. The number of scientific publications are rising at an alarming rate and disproportionately to the number of scientists. We talk about why this is happening and what some of the solutions might be.

Read the full paper -> https://direct.mit.edu/qss/article/5/4/823/124269/The-strain-on-scientific-publishing 

Explore the data yourself -> https://the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/ 

Mark’s lab -> https://mahansonresearch.weebly.com/ 

Find Mark on Bluesky -> https://bsky.app/profile/hansonmark.bsky.social 

Blog post mentioned by Mark -> https://mahansonresearch.weebly.com/blog/we-need-a-new-special-issue-lexicon

This episode was produced by Jonny Coates and edited by Sonia Gomes Pereira. Music by Dr John D Howard.

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