A small press with a narrow remit

Who publishes this

Fieldnote Press is an independent editorial project operated by Genesys Digital Ltda, a company registered in Brazil. It has no academic affiliation, no clinical staff and no institutional funding. It is not a research body and conducts no studies of its own.

Editorial work is carried out by a small team that reads published papers and writes summaries of them in plain English. Where a paper sits behind a paywall, the summary is written from the paper itself rather than from press coverage of it.

How subjects are chosen

A subject qualifies when three conditions are met: there is a body of published, peer-reviewed work behind it rather than a single study; that work has attracted methodological discussion, so the note has something to weigh; and the popular version of the finding has drifted noticeably from what the research reported. The third condition is doing most of the work — the drift is usually the reason a note is worth writing.

How sources are cited

Every note ends with a source list naming authors, publication year and journal. Researchers are named in the body text as well, so that a claim can be traced without scrolling to the end. Where two research groups disagree, both are named. Where a figure is disputed, the dispute is described rather than resolved.

No statistic appears on this site without a traceable published source. Numbers that circulate widely but cannot be traced to a paper are either omitted or described as untraceable.

What this press does not do

• It does not provide therapy, counselling, coaching, mediation or any regulated professional service.
• It does not assess, diagnose or treat any condition.
• It does not answer questions about an individual reader's circumstances, and does not correspond about them.
• It does not describe its material as a method, system, formula, protocol or sequence of steps that produces a result.
• It does not claim, imply or measure outcomes of any kind.
• It does not publish or accept testimonials, reviews, endorsements or before-and-after accounts.

How Fieldnote Press advertises

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• Advertisements are not directed at anyone under 18.

Where an advertisement is found to breach any of these rules, it is withdrawn rather than reworded, and the reason is recorded internally.

Correction policy

Errors of fact are corrected on the page itself, with a dated correction line at the foot of the note describing what changed. Notes are not deleted to resolve an error. Where a cited paper is retracted or substantially revised after publication, the note is updated to say so, and remains published with that update attached.

Corrections can be requested by email. A message that identifies the note, the specific sentence and the source that contradicts it will be answered within five business days.

Commercial disclosure

The notes in the library are free to read. Fieldnote Press may sell written material separately, and may earn revenue from advertising placements it purchases to bring readers to the library. It accepts no sponsorship from any party with an interest in the research it summarises, and no researcher, institution or company named in a note has paid for that mention or reviewed it before publication.