Alexey N. Gerasimov

TL;DR: This article overviews unethical publishing practices in connection with the pressure to publish more, and several measures are proposed to tackle the issue of predatory publishing.

TL;DR: This article overviews currently available options for rewarding peer reviewers and suggests a strategy of combined rewards and credits for the reviewers seems a workable solution.

TL;DR: The involvement of scientific authors, reviewers, editors, publishers, indexers, and learned associations in the citing and referencing to preserve the integrity of science communication is overviewed.

TL;DR: This article presents an example of swapping second (father’s) name with surname in a ‘predatory’ journal, where numerous instances of incorrectly identifying and crediting authors passed unnoticed for the journal editors, and no correction has been published.

TL;DR: This article presents examples of the established specialist databases, which may be of interest to those engaged in multidisciplinary science communication.