Iva Grabarić Andonovski

European Science Editing 52: e198522 doi: 10.3897/ese.2026.e198522 Published: 02 Jun 2026 This article is part of: Authors Elsevier, Amsterdam, Netherlands University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia The Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association, Oslo, Norway Koç University, Istanbul, Türkiye Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine Academic editor Rijeka University,Faculty of Health Studies, Rijeka, Croatia Author contributions Bahar Mehmani — Conceptualization, Writing -...

Editor’s note: Today’s guest post is by Lovorka Čaja and Iva Grabarić Andonovski. Lovorka is a librarian at Dubrava University Hospital in Zagreb, Croatia, passionate about everything libraries represent — freedom, diversity, and open access to knowledge — and a strong advocate for open science. Iva is the Editor of the Food Technology and Biotechnology journal, a diamond open-access international journal that is a signatory of the UN SDG Publishers Compact.

Small non-profit publishers and their editors feel the increased pressures caused by toughening competition in academia, where one must publish or perish and where there is less time for everything. The observed deterioration of quality in submitted manuscripts adds to the need to make sure the research and its presentation are reliable. In the Nordic countries, at least, these concerns are highlighted in the context of economic and other resource troubles in scholarly publishing.