Pré-Publication, Document De Travail Année : 2025

Time to publish ethically: DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly journals in ecology and evolutionary biology.

Charly Maeder

Résumé

The scientific publishing market is dysfunctional: academia pays a lot for publishing, much more than the actual cost. Transitioning to ethical publishing is a collective challenge requiring to inform scientists about the problem and its potential solutions. We introduce DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly journals in ecology and evolutionary biology (https://dafnee.isem-evolution.fr/). DAFNEE provides information on eco-evo journals (co)run by academic or non-profit institutions, aiming to retain the money used to pay for publishing within academia. DAFNEE records the business models, article processing charges, citation rates and partnerships of over 600 society-run, university-affiliated and diamond Open Access eco-evo-archaeo journals. We show that DAFNEE journals compare favourably to non-DAFNEE ones in terms of editorial and financial policy, while offering similar citation rates. We propose a number of recommendations aimed at modifying scientists' practices towards more ethical publishing.

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hal-05157188 , version 1 (10-07-2025)

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Nicolas Galtier, Khalid Belkhir, Pierre-Olivier Antoine, Christine Bibal, Christophe Boëte, et al.. Time to publish ethically: DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly journals in ecology and evolutionary biology.. 2025. ⟨hal-05157188⟩
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