One Guy Too Many Papers

In this episode I chat with my colleague Associate Professor Bettina Dahl Søndergaard who is based at Aalborg University, Denmark, in the Department of Sustainability and Planning. She’s Case Editor of the Journal of Problem-Based Learning in Higher Education. Many thanks to Bettina for shedding some light on this unique university-based journal, it’s open access and accessibility endeavours, and the how editorial challenges sometimes differ for small journals like this (but not always!). Hope you like the episode.

One Guy Too Many Papers is a follow-up to the Two Guys One Paper podcast. In this series Tom Elliot talks with editors of scientific journals about the current challenges facing scholarly publishing, including open science, rising submission rates, reviewer fatigue, and the growing influence of artificial intelligence.

In this episode, Tom talks with Professor Louise Willemen. Louise is based at Twente University in The Netherlands where she holds the chair of Spatial Dynamics of Ecosystem Services and is Head of Department at Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation. She is also Co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal Ecosystem Services. The conversation was recorded during the 2026 Ecosystem Services Partnership conference in Prague. Apologies for the background noise in this episode.

One Guy Too Many Papers is a follow-up to the Two Guys One Paper podcast. In this series Tom Elliot talks with editors of scientific journals about the current challenges facing scholarly publishing, including open science, rising submission rates, reviewer fatigue, and the growing influence of artificial intelligence.

In this episode, Tom talks with Dr Alexander van Oudenhoven of Leiden University, The Netherlands. He is an environmental science scholar, educator, and Co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal Ecosystems and People (also on LinkedIn). The conversation was recorded during the 2026 Ecosystem Services Partnership conference in Prague. Apologies for the background noise.

One Guy Too Many Papers is a follow-up to the Two Guys One Paper podcast. In this series Tom Elliot talks with editors of scientific journals about the current challenges facing scholarly publishing, including open science, rising submission rates, reviewer fatigue, and the growing influence of artificial intelligence.

In this episode, Tom talks with Professor Benjamin Burkhard from Leibniz University Hannover, Germany. A leading figure in ecosystem services research, Benjamin is also the founding editor of One Ecosystem. The conversation was recorded during the 2026 Ecosystem Services Partnership conference in Prague. Apologies for the background noise.

Two Guys One Paper is wrapping up, for now. Here's a bonus episode to sum up our first foray into podcasting, and to announce that our reflections on it have been published as a comment article titled “Hear me out!”: Reflections of early career researchers on academic publishing through podcasting which you can read free of charge. 

Thanks for listening, thanks to everyone who helped us along the way, and most of all thanks to our six excellent guests.

In our sixth episode and season finale of Two Guys One Paper, we had the pleasure of talking with Leire Retegui Schiettekatte before she headed off to the 2025 EGU General Assembly. Leire is a PhD student in the Geodesy research group at Aalborg University and recently won the EliteForsk travel grant. She told us about her research field and the contribution of her latest paper, which is one of several but the first in her PhD. This can be found in the Science of the Total Environment journal and is titled “Assessing daily GRACE Data Assimilation during flood events of the Brahmaputra River Basin”. Among many insights she offers, we heard about her engagement with peer-review, and a funny anecdote about a potential AI reviewer.

For the fifth episode of Two Guys One Paper, we distracted Matthew (Matt) Howells as he approached his PhD thesis submission. Matt has published several papers already, including one as first author during his previous role. However, in this episode we discussed his most recent paper, the first of his PhD dissertation. This can be found in the Housing Studies journal and is titled The neoliberalization of housing policy and social housing provision in the Nordics: convergence or continued variegation? Matt is now a postdoc in the Planning for Urban Sustainability research group at Aalborg University, and at the time of release he is preparing for his PhD defence in June.

In our fourth episode of Two Guys One Paper, we had a coffee with Maria Risager Nielsen and she told us about her master thesis, which she spent doing participatory research in Greenland. This resulted in an article in the Études/Inuit Studies journal titled Impacts of Climate Change on Youth’s Place Attachment: A Case Study of Tasiilaq, East Greenland. She also talked about this in the context of ongoing decolonization discourse. Maria is currently a research assistant in the Danish Centre for Environmental Assessment research group at Aalborg University, and is working on social impact assessment and gender in relation to energy and mining projects.

In the third (Christmasy themed) episode of Two Guys One Paper, we drank some Danish Christmas gløgg with Mia Cassidy Prall. She explained her recent research paper on social flood vulnerability and how she approaches collaborations. Mia is an industrial PhD fellow in the Centre for Blue Governance Research Group at Aalborg University with the Danish Coastal Authority. You can read her open access paper "A comprehensive approach for assessing social flood vulnerability and social flood risk: The case of Denmark" in the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2024.104686.The work has also been featured on the Aalborg Univeristy website here: https://www.plan.aau.dk/new-research-leads-to-the-inclusion-of-vulnerable-groups-in-flood-risk-assessments-n125342.

In the second episode of Two Guys One Paper, Tom and Furqan chat with our colleague Giovanni Codotto, a final year PhD fellow in the Life Cycle Sustainability Research Group at Aalborg University, about his first research paper entitled “Model uncertainty versus variability in the life cycle assessment of commercial fisheries” published in the Journal of Industrial Ecology. He also talks about collaborating across different research groups and disciplines. His open access paper also acheived the gold-gold data openness badge. You can read the paper here: https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.13453.