Journal of Olive Turn Press

Issue 1, Volume 1: The Olive Turn

Publication date: February 12, 2026

Editorial note

This satirical issue explores peer review, preservation, metrics, and the sensory possibilities of structured markup. Its proposals are fictional; its interest in accessible, well-structured scholarly communication is entirely sincere.

Table of contents

Perspectives

1. The Great Olive Disruption: How a Mediterranean Fruit Unseated Legacy Publishers
   Perspective
2. From Subscription to Olive Oil Subscription: A New Model for Sustainable Open Access
   Perspective
3. Olive Branch Diplomacy in Predatory Publishing: How Genuine Oil Authentication Eliminated Fake Journals
   Perspective

Research articles

1. Peer Review by Olive Grove: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Arboreal Manuscript Assessment
   Research article
2. Impact Factors and Olive Yields: A Surprising Correlation Across 500 Journals
   Research article
3. Double-Blind, Double-Olive: Masking Bias in Editorial Decisions Through Mandatory Oil Tasting
   Research article
4. Olive Oil as a Preservation Medium for Born-Digital Scholarship: A 500-Year Archival Strategy
   Research article

Infrastructure and standards

1. The Olive Oil Markup Language: Extending JATS XML for Sensory-Enhanced Scholarly Communication
   Standards / technical note
2. The Olive Index: Measuring Research Impact Through Grove Planting Rather Than Citations
   Metrics / methods

Closing

1. Conclusions and Future Directions: The Olive Turn in Scholarly Publishing
   Manifesto

The issue lives on the Olive Turn demo journal, where each article is served from the structured JATS record through Scholar Core and the WordPress integration.