RESEARCH PUBLISHING NEWS
How do new words get added to the Cambridge Dictionary
Every year, thousands of new words, from viral slang to tech jargon, are added to the Cambridge Dictionary, the world’s most popular online dictionary for learners of English.
In August 2025, the Cambridge Dictionary announced that over 6,000 words had been added in the past year, including slang words such as skibidi, delulu, tradwife, broligarchy, and lewk. And in June 2025, a new AI-related definition of slop was added to the Cambridge Dictionary.
How does a word go from casual conversation or an online trend to official recognition in the Cambridge Dictionary?
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Source - Cambridge University Press
Declaring funding sources for research
Sources of funding for research must be declared by authors during submission in the form of a funding statement. Funding statements must include details of the funding sources, specify which authors and activities were supported, and follow the requirements of journals and funding agencies.
The COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) has recently launched guidance for authors, editors, and publishers on best practices for reporting funding statements in research publications. It explains why declaring funding sources is essential for transparency, compliance with journal and funder requirements, and identifying potential conflicts of interest.
To download the guidance, press here.
Source - COPE
Clarivate removed 128 Journals from Web of Science Core Collection in 2025
In the year 2025, Clarivate expunged 128 scholarly journals from the Web of Science (WoS) Core Collection, an excision that transversed the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), the Arts & Humanities Citation Index (AHCI), and the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)..
Clarivate regularly evaluates journals to ensure they meet its editorial quality, publishing standards, and ethical requirements. In 2025, journals were removed due to three main reasons:
Editorial De-listing: Journals were re-evaluated and didn’t meet the quality criteria and hence were removed from the Web of Science Core Collection.
Production De-listing: Journals were removed from the Web of Science Core Collection due to the non-receipt of content from publishers.
Cease: Journals were ceased publication and hence no longer covered in the Core collection.
To see the list of removed journals, press here
Source - PhDTalks
To be a professor: Academic mobility and publishing performance. Article.
Many aspiring academics target a professorship, but only some succeed. This study examines academic market concentration and its consequences. The authors analyzed the field of economic sciences over a 22-year period, combining official data on the appointment process with manually collected data on applicants’ publishing performance. Using correlation and linear regression analyses, the authors investigated whether the mobility of candidates for full professorships is related to their research productivity and research visibility.
Source - PLoS
World University Rankings by Subject 2025
Times Higher Education has provided trusted performance data on universities for students and their families, academics, university leaders, governments and industry since 2004. We create university rankings to assess university performance on the global stage and to provide a resource for readers to understand the different missions and successes of higher education institutions.
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Source - Times Higher Education
Scopus added 127 new journals to its index in 2025
In 2025, 127 new research journals were added to Scopus' index list. High-caliber, peer-reviewed publications from a variety of fields are frequently added to Scopus' source list.
Elsevier uses the independent counsel of the Scopus Content Selection & Advisory Board (CSAB) to determine whether to approve or reject a title for Scopus. However, Elsevier retains the right, after consulting with the CSAB, to reevaluate titles that are approved for Scopus, modify the selection criteria, or change choices at any time.
List of newsly added journals can be found here
Source - PhDTalks
Scopus Discontinued Journals 2025: 56 Journals Removed from Index
In 2025, 56 journals were formally discontinued by Scopus. These deletions are a part of Scopus's continuous efforts to uphold standards for ethical, transparent, and high-quality publishing. The reasons for the discontinuity are outlier behavior, Publication concerns, Editorial, and quality issues. Research papers published in these journals, while they were indexed in Scopus, will remain in the Scopus database. However, articles published after 2025 will not be indexed in Scopus.
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List of discontinued journals can be found here
Source - PhDTalks
Publishing with purpose: How Q3 and Q4 journals support research in lower- and middle-income countries
All validated, peer-reviewed research contributes to science even if the journal it appears in “doesn’t rank highly” in citation metrics. This can be especially true when the research comes from, or applies to, situations in lower- and middle-income countries (LMICs). This type of research might not be “buzzy” enough to generate outsized citation counts, but it really matters. That’s where journals — especially open access (OA) ones like BMC’s AIDS Research and Therapy — shine. Journals like these are platforms for the kinds of important, sometimes incremental, research that makes a difference but might not make a flash.
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Source - SpringerNature
Springer Nature Indexing Check Tool allows to check if your content is indexed on Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus
Getting published is just the first step; the important part of the process is making sure that your research can be found and accessed by the global academic community. Enter the Springer Nature Indexing Check Tool, a quick and easy way to verify if your publication is indexed in major databases like Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus..
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Source - SpringerNature
Institute for Scientific Information at Clarivate released list of Highly Cited Researchers of 2025.
The annual Highly Cited Researchers list identifies and celebrates individuals who have demonstrated significant and broad influence in their fields of research. Through rigorous selection criteria and comprehensive analysis, we recognize researchers whose exceptional and community-wide contributions shape the future of science, technology and academia globally..
Since 2001, the Highly Cited Researchers program has celebrated the world’s most influential scientists and social scientists. This year, the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) at Clarivate awarded 7,131 Highly Cited Researcher awards* to 6,868 individuals in 60 countries and regions, underscoring the global nature of today’s research ecosystem.
Total list of highly cited researchers can be found here.
Source - Clarivate