What’s Hot and Cooking In Scholarly Publishing
SSP's latest Pulse Check survey offers a community-wide snapshot of social media in scholarly publishing as it stands today.
Today’s guest post introduces the YCR-index as an alternative to measuring value with raw citation counts.
Today’s post asks us to acknowledge the role of AI in peer review and ensure practical guidance and policies that help scholars respond with consistency and confidence.
The future of scholarly communication will not be determined by how powerful AI becomes, but by whether the research community remains clear about the purpose those capabilities are meant to serve and whether it can govern them together.
Today, we reprise the talk by outgoing SSP President Rebecca McLeod at last month’s SSP Annual Meeting.
A Cambridge workshop proposes new standard work to support provenance, attribution and metrics in scholarly communications AI tools.
Today’s post reflects on how scholarly publishing professionals balance camaraderie with market competition, and how 3 “frenemies” navigate complex industry dynamics.
While it’s true that AI may be viewed as “legitimate,” it’s far from universally loved. Understanding that distinction tells us something important about how the technology may ultimately be adopted — and governed — within academia.
Today’s post explores what happens to the scholarly content platform when AI agents become the users.
Today, we offer reflections on the SSP Annual Meeting from our 2026 Fellowship cohort.
Building robust citation and attribution into generative AI systems are foundational to usage, credit and trust. We need to expect more from AI.
A German court ruled against a mandatory article deposit requirement under Germany’s “secondary publication right” (SPR). Whatever the intentions, SPR is mainly going to contribute to the degradation of the record of science.
Today’s guest post is an urgent call for the SSP community to push back on the US government (OMB), which is poised to overhaul the concept of federal research grants.
We asked some of the attendees of the recent SSP Annual Meeting in Chula Vista, CA, to answer the question: “What are some takeaways from your experience at SSP 2026?”
Today, guest blogger Rob Johnson speaks with the creator of Research Nexus Score, and observes that metadata quality has gone from a niche concern to a sector-wide anxiety.
A conversation on AI retrieval, the provenance problem, and the shared infrastructure scholarly publishing needs.