This article illustrates how problematic are publication venues like Qeios, which operate without editorial oversight. The author doesn’t cite Lynn at all; the source of “national IQ” data is given instead as this paper 👇 which appears to be “peer approved” but is in fact just Lynn’s data rehashed
February 18, 2026 at 7:45 PM
This article illustrates how problematic are publication venues like Qeios, which operate without editorial oversight. The author doesn’t cite Lynn at all; the source of “national IQ” data is given instead as this paper 👇 which appears to be “peer approved” but is in fact just Lynn’s data rehashed
Excellent. Similar model to F1000 & Qeios. I’ve had excellent publishing experiences with them #OpenScience.
The peer review system no longer works to guarantee academic rigour - a different approach is needed: Introducing MetaROR
theconversation.com/the-peer-rev...
theconversation.com/the-peer-rev...
The peer review system no longer works to guarantee academic rigour - a different approach is needed
Peer review is often assumed to guarantee quality, but it doesn’t always work so well in practice.
theconversation.com
November 22, 2024 at 8:46 PM
Excellent. Similar model to F1000 & Qeios. I’ve had excellent publishing experiences with them #OpenScience.
Important PSA - don’t give qeios permission to post the paper you submitted to a journal and posted to arxiv!
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This thread is for authors of scientific papers, and particularly astronomers. I struggled a bit with how explicit I had to be, but I think including a name is important. We (meaning all the major journals) have rules against submitting a manuscript to more than one journal at a time. 1/6
December 7, 2024 at 10:03 AM
Important PSA - don’t give qeios permission to post the paper you submitted to a journal and posted to arxiv!
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Anyways, opinion on "Qeios": it's bloomin reddit for failed academics
December 29, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Anyways, opinion on "Qeios": it's bloomin reddit for failed academics
Interesting on how publishers respond when concerns are raised 👇 My own experience:
Springer, 3 journals, No action
Elsevier, 3, No action
CUP, 1, No action
Brill, 1, No action
Emerald, 1, No action
Frontiers, 1, No action
Qeios, No action
Cell Press, 1, Editorial note
Royal Society, 1, Retraction
Springer, 3 journals, No action
Elsevier, 3, No action
CUP, 1, No action
Brill, 1, No action
Emerald, 1, No action
Frontiers, 1, No action
Qeios, No action
Cell Press, 1, Editorial note
Royal Society, 1, Retraction
Huge variability documented in how publishers respond when informed about a problematic body of work by a research group. www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...
#publishers #retractions
#publishers #retractions
August 26, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Interesting on how publishers respond when concerns are raised 👇 My own experience:
Springer, 3 journals, No action
Elsevier, 3, No action
CUP, 1, No action
Brill, 1, No action
Emerald, 1, No action
Frontiers, 1, No action
Qeios, No action
Cell Press, 1, Editorial note
Royal Society, 1, Retraction
Springer, 3 journals, No action
Elsevier, 3, No action
CUP, 1, No action
Brill, 1, No action
Emerald, 1, No action
Frontiers, 1, No action
Qeios, No action
Cell Press, 1, Editorial note
Royal Society, 1, Retraction
This is certainly a strategy. No, I did not agree to review.
April 25, 2025 at 3:47 PM
This is certainly a strategy. No, I did not agree to review.
For any scientists following me, this is from a post on Qeios, a new "open peer review" preprint server that is being gamed by racists. I would not recommend engaging with that platform if they email you to review something
Scientific racism in a nutshell: "Look, I'm not saying one race is more intelligent than another, I'm just saying that one race is more intelligent than another"
August 15, 2023 at 5:44 PM
For any scientists following me, this is from a post on Qeios, a new "open peer review" preprint server that is being gamed by racists. I would not recommend engaging with that platform if they email you to review something
I keep getting requests to review for Qeios. It's not predatory, as far as I can tell. Would you review for it?
September 29, 2026 at 3:53 AM
I keep getting requests to review for Qeios. It's not predatory, as far as I can tell. Would you review for it?
Jonathan Edwards has announced that he has written a hypothesis paper on "A Proposed Mechanism for ME/CFS Invoking Macrophage Fc-gamma-RI and Interferon Gamma" with Jo Cambridge and Jackie Cliff. The preprint should appear on Qeios later today or on Monday: www.s4me.info/threads/a-pr...
Preprint - A Proposed Mechanism for ME/CFS Invoking Macrophage Fc-gamma-RI and Interferon Gamma
I am hoping that the paper I have been writing with Jo Cambridge and Jackie Cliff will appear on Qeios tomorrow. If there are glitches it may be...
www.s4me.info
May 22, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Jonathan Edwards has announced that he has written a hypothesis paper on "A Proposed Mechanism for ME/CFS Invoking Macrophage Fc-gamma-RI and Interferon Gamma" with Jo Cambridge and Jackie Cliff. The preprint should appear on Qeios later today or on Monday: www.s4me.info/threads/a-pr...
Hey #academicsky (??) has anyone ever reviewed for Qeios? In theory it sounds cool, kind of like academic papers where you can comment on them publicly, but there's no accept/reject decision.
January 21, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Hey #academicsky (??) has anyone ever reviewed for Qeios? In theory it sounds cool, kind of like academic papers where you can comment on them publicly, but there's no accept/reject decision.
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"Open Science platform [...] combining human expertise with advanced AI. [And] approval decisions rest entirely with reviewers, eliminating editorial biases. This removes a major source of frustration for authors, ensuring papers are valued solely on their merits."
www.qeios.com/about
"Open Science platform [...] combining human expertise with advanced AI. [And] approval decisions rest entirely with reviewers, eliminating editorial biases. This removes a major source of frustration for authors, ensuring papers are valued solely on their merits."
www.qeios.com/about
About Qeios
We are unveiling new ways of creating and distributing knowledge.
www.qeios.com
December 29, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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"Open Science platform [...] combining human expertise with advanced AI. [And] approval decisions rest entirely with reviewers, eliminating editorial biases. This removes a major source of frustration for authors, ensuring papers are valued solely on their merits."
www.qeios.com/about
"Open Science platform [...] combining human expertise with advanced AI. [And] approval decisions rest entirely with reviewers, eliminating editorial biases. This removes a major source of frustration for authors, ensuring papers are valued solely on their merits."
www.qeios.com/about
The fuck is Qeios? They just sent me a paper to review...
April 4, 2025 at 5:24 PM
The fuck is Qeios? They just sent me a paper to review...
Got a weird vibe from a review I received on Qeios.
Looked up the reviewer profile. They have a pages of reviews generated -- sorry, written -- on the same day, November 25.
Why cheat when there is no metric? Well, turns out there is: Qeios numbers show up on Orcid.
www.qeios.com/profile/6809...
Looked up the reviewer profile. They have a pages of reviews generated -- sorry, written -- on the same day, November 25.
Why cheat when there is no metric? Well, turns out there is: Qeios numbers show up on Orcid.
www.qeios.com/profile/6809...
November 27, 2024 at 3:21 AM
Got a weird vibe from a review I received on Qeios.
Looked up the reviewer profile. They have a pages of reviews generated -- sorry, written -- on the same day, November 25.
Why cheat when there is no metric? Well, turns out there is: Qeios numbers show up on Orcid.
www.qeios.com/profile/6809...
Looked up the reviewer profile. They have a pages of reviews generated -- sorry, written -- on the same day, November 25.
Why cheat when there is no metric? Well, turns out there is: Qeios numbers show up on Orcid.
www.qeios.com/profile/6809...
New metascience journal has launched using the publish-review-curate model: preprint is published, reviewed openly then an editor posts assessment. Will be interesting to see if this model, involving editorial oversight, is more successful than the problematic Qeios model, which involves none
The peer review system no longer works to guarantee academic rigour – a different approach is needed
Peer review is often assumed to guarantee quality, but it doesn’t always work so well in practice.
theconversation.com
November 28, 2024 at 9:14 AM
New metascience journal has launched using the publish-review-curate model: preprint is published, reviewed openly then an editor posts assessment. Will be interesting to see if this model, involving editorial oversight, is more successful than the problematic Qeios model, which involves none
PS: Here is a not-for-profit #openscience alternative to Qeios: socios.review/pub/index
SOCIOS
socios.review
January 27, 2026 at 1:32 PM
PS: Here is a not-for-profit #openscience alternative to Qeios: socios.review/pub/index
Come now... Why would anybody pay this? 😵💫
December 29, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Come now... Why would anybody pay this? 😵💫
Anyone (else) with experiences or opinions on Qeios?
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"Open Science platform [...] combining human expertise with advanced AI. [And] approval decisions rest entirely with reviewers, eliminating editorial biases. This removes a major source of frustration for authors, ensuring papers are valued solely on their merits."
www.qeios.com/about
"Open Science platform [...] combining human expertise with advanced AI. [And] approval decisions rest entirely with reviewers, eliminating editorial biases. This removes a major source of frustration for authors, ensuring papers are valued solely on their merits."
www.qeios.com/about
About Qeios
We are unveiling new ways of creating and distributing knowledge.
www.qeios.com
January 27, 2026 at 11:18 AM
Anyone (else) with experiences or opinions on Qeios?
AI-powered crap should be killed with fire:
"Open" peer review publication that "uses AI to find and invite reviewers"
Lists authors you collaborated with as "potential reviewers" . and no, this colleague has neither been contacted nor consented to their name given out like that.
#AcademicSky
"Open" peer review publication that "uses AI to find and invite reviewers"
Lists authors you collaborated with as "potential reviewers" . and no, this colleague has neither been contacted nor consented to their name given out like that.
#AcademicSky
January 21, 2025 at 3:24 PM
AI-powered crap should be killed with fire:
"Open" peer review publication that "uses AI to find and invite reviewers"
Lists authors you collaborated with as "potential reviewers" . and no, this colleague has neither been contacted nor consented to their name given out like that.
#AcademicSky
"Open" peer review publication that "uses AI to find and invite reviewers"
Lists authors you collaborated with as "potential reviewers" . and no, this colleague has neither been contacted nor consented to their name given out like that.
#AcademicSky
These folk want me to review an article, email doesn't look particularly legit but their website has a picture of a real professor and some prestigious university logos on it so who knows 🤷♂️. "Qeios has come up with an excellent formula. It uses AI to find and invite reviewers"😐 🧪🔭
www.qeios.com
www.qeios.com
Qeios - Research you can trust
The Open Science platform reshaping scholarly communication.
www.qeios.com
December 6, 2024 at 10:44 AM
These folk want me to review an article, email doesn't look particularly legit but their website has a picture of a real professor and some prestigious university logos on it so who knows 🤷♂️. "Qeios has come up with an excellent formula. It uses AI to find and invite reviewers"😐 🧪🔭
www.qeios.com
www.qeios.com
Any opinions on Qeios? It’s said to be managed by AI!
January 2, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Any opinions on Qeios? It’s said to be managed by AI!
🧪 wrote a public review of "Mechanisms of Selection on Cancer-Causing Mutations" @qeios
www.qeios.com/read/LRRYCD
www.qeios.com/read/LRRYCD
Review of: "Mechanisms of Selection on Cancer-Causing Mutations"
“Mechanisms of Selection on Cancer-Causing Mutations” by Shinde et al. [1] advances an ambitious and thoughtful framework for understanding somatic evolution in cancer through the lens of context-depe...
www.qeios.com
December 30, 2025 at 7:08 PM
🧪 wrote a public review of "Mechanisms of Selection on Cancer-Causing Mutations" @qeios
www.qeios.com/read/LRRYCD
www.qeios.com/read/LRRYCD
Qeios and the Nature of a Journal
Last week I encountered, for the first time, a website called Qeios.com. This is a platform that does peer review of preprints and then posts those approved with Open Access. It also issues a DOI for approved articles. Qeios is also a member of Crossref so…
Last week I encountered, for the first time, a website called Qeios.com. This is a platform that does peer review of preprints and then posts those approved with Open Access. It also issues a DOI for approved articles. Qeios is also a member of Crossref so…
Qeios and the Nature of a Journal
Last week I encountered, for the first time, a website called Qeios.com. This is a platform that does peer review of preprints and then posts those approved with Open Access. It also issues a DOI for approved articles. Qeios is also a member of Crossref so presumably the metadata for these articles is deposited there too. You might think this is the same as what the…
telescoper.blog
December 15, 2024 at 1:31 PM
Qeios and the Nature of a Journal
Last week I encountered, for the first time, a website called Qeios.com. This is a platform that does peer review of preprints and then posts those approved with Open Access. It also issues a DOI for approved articles. Qeios is also a member of Crossref so…
Last week I encountered, for the first time, a website called Qeios.com. This is a platform that does peer review of preprints and then posts those approved with Open Access. It also issues a DOI for approved articles. Qeios is also a member of Crossref so…
"Margaret William's response to Prof Edwards Qeios Article
With no disrespect to J Edwards structural & biochemical abnormalities & impaired muscle recovery after exercise are well-documented in #ME its difficult to understand why he doesnt recognise this"
www.oneagleswings.me.uk/wp-content/u...
With no disrespect to J Edwards structural & biochemical abnormalities & impaired muscle recovery after exercise are well-documented in #ME its difficult to understand why he doesnt recognise this"
www.oneagleswings.me.uk/wp-content/u...
www.oneagleswings.me.uk
May 31, 2025 at 11:45 AM
"Margaret William's response to Prof Edwards Qeios Article
With no disrespect to J Edwards structural & biochemical abnormalities & impaired muscle recovery after exercise are well-documented in #ME its difficult to understand why he doesnt recognise this"
www.oneagleswings.me.uk/wp-content/u...
With no disrespect to J Edwards structural & biochemical abnormalities & impaired muscle recovery after exercise are well-documented in #ME its difficult to understand why he doesnt recognise this"
www.oneagleswings.me.uk/wp-content/u...
Prof Edwards’s article on The Concept of ME/CFS is being discussed on the Science for ME forum: www.s4me.info/threads/the-...
The Concept of ME/CFS, 2024, Edwards
https://www.qeios.com/read/NXCXM1
Qeios
Abstract
The concept of ME/CFS (notionally standing for myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome)...
www.s4me.info
December 9, 2024 at 1:23 AM
Prof Edwards’s article on The Concept of ME/CFS is being discussed on the Science for ME forum: www.s4me.info/threads/the-...