Publishing has lain at the core of the scientific enterprise for more than three centuries. By enabling ideas to circulate rapidly between distant readers it catalyzed a creative chain reaction that triggered an explosion of knowledge. Its efficiency and effectiveness are not peripheral issues; they are critical to the present and future of science. In 2021, the International Science Council (ISC), which brings together over 200 major international natural and social science organizations from all regions of the world, tested this view in a report setting out seven principles for scientific publishing and analysing the extent to which they are observed in practice.
Author: Geoffrey Boulton and Lizzie Sayer
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