Hong Zhou, Author at The Scholarly Kitchen

Dr. Hong Zhou is VP of Product Management at KnowledgeWorks Global Ltd., where he guides product vision and strategy, leads cross-functional teams, and drives innovation across publishing solutions for researchers, librarians, and publishers worldwide.

Previously, he was Senior Director of AI Product & Innovation at Wiley, defining AI strategy and leading the roadmap. He helped shape Wiley’s AI ethics principles, advanced the Wiley Research Exchange and Atypon platforms, and led development of Wiley’s first AI-driven papermill detection tool, which won the 2025 Silver SSP EPIC Award for Excellence in Research Integrity Tools.

He is a recognized industry leader in AI, product innovation, and workflow transformation. He also received an individual honorable mention for the 2024 APE Award for Innovation. He holds a PhD in 3D Modelling with AI and an MBA in Digital Transformation (Oxford University).

He also serves as a COPE Advisor, Scholarly Kitchen Chef, Co-Chair of ALPSP’s AI Special Interest Group, and Distinguished Expert at China’s National Key Laboratory of Knowledge Mining for Medical Journals.

Articles by Hong Zhou

A Platform Comes Apart: Part 1

Today’s post explores what happens to the scholarly content platform when AI agents become the users.

From “AI helps me write” to “AI runs the workflow”: Eight Tech-trend Reports through a Publishing-and-learning Lens

A review of eight technology industry trend reports that offer a similar conclusion: AI is no longer a feature. It’s becoming infrastructure — and the unit of value is moving from “a better tool” to “a better system.”

Keywords Are Not Dead — But Discovery Is No Longer Just Search

As with previous shifts in content discovery, today’s winners will be those who understand the strengths and limits of AI search, and design systems that let researchers move fluidly between precision and synthesis.

Ask The Chefs: What Would You Ask of Academic Publishing Santa

To close out 2025, we asked the Chefs: What would you ask for from Academic Publishing Santa?

Reimagining Scholarly Publishing Workflow: A High-Level Map of What Changes Next

Rather than just bolting on AI to existing publication workflows,there is a real opportunity to rethink and redesign them for human–AI collaboration. Some thoughts on what that looks like in practice.

Peer Review in the Era of AI: Risks, Rewards, and Responsibilities

The future of peer review isn’t about choosing between humans and AI, or between speed and quality, but about combining the strengths of both to enable speed with quality, to ensure quality, ethics, and trust in the scholarly record.

Ask the Chefs: What’s a Bold Experiment with AI in Peer Review You’d Like to See Tested?

To kick off Peer Review Week, we asked the Chefs, What’s a bold experiment with AI in peer review you’d like to see tested?

From Detection to Disclosure — Key Takeaways on AI Ethics from COPE’s Forum

Summing up the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Forum discussion on Emerging AI Dilemmas in Scholarly Publishing, which explored the many challenges AI presents for the scholarly community.

AI Strategy, Governance, and Monetization in Scholarly Publishing: Lessons from Industry Front-Runners

At the 3rd Generative AI Summit in London, global leaders and companies shared how they’re embedding generative AI into strategies, workflows, and products for commercial success, operational efficiency, and competitive advantage. Here, we’d like to share key takeaways and insights from multiple perspectives and explore what they mean for publishers.

Navigating the Digital Frontier: How Emerging Tech Trends Are Shaping Scholarly Publishing

A focus on four rising technology trends and the challenges and opportunities they might bring to scholarly communications.

The Top Ten Challenges, Needs, and Goals of Publishers – and How AI Can Help in Digital Transformation and the Open Science Movement

As artificial intelligence begins to play an ever-bigger role in the scholarly publishing landscape, how might it help solve some of the biggest challenges facing publishers?

Peer Review Week 2024: Ask the Chefs

Leading into Peer Review Week 2024, we ask the Chefs: What is, or would be, the most valuable innovation in peer review for your community?

Towards Conversational Discovery: New Discovery Applications for Scholarly Information in the Era of Generative Artificial Intelligence

How is generative AI moving us towards conversational discovery and what does this mean for publishing and future trends in information discovery?

The Impact of AI on Information Discovery: From Information Gathering to Knowledge Application

In this post – the first of two discussing artificial intelligence and information discovery – we explore the evolution of information discovery, its role in the research journey, and how it can be applied to help researchers and publishers alike.

Approaching Artificial Intelligence and Open Research in Sync: Opportunities and Challenges

Separately, both open research and AI are considered disrupters, causes of disorder in the normal continuance of scholarly publishing. But approaching them in a synchronized way can offer more productivity gains and efficiencies than taking them on individually.

The Scholarly Kitchen

Hong Zhou