How do we strike a balance between humans and AI to improve peer review? We’ve interviewed a few publishing experts who specialize in human and AI ethical, equitable, and sustainable publishing solutions to share their thoughts on the future of peer review.
Compared to their peak levels, publication volume has declined at MDPI by 27% and at Frontiers by 36%. What’s behind these declines, and how do they reflect the inherent risk in the APC open access model and different approaches to reputation management?
An appeals court has ruled that it is unconstitutional for the government to require deposit of published works in the Library of Congress
Could the failure of a journal to visibly correct known errors in a publication, thereby propagating false information, be considered disinformation?
While higher rates of endogeny can help indexes identify journals being used for self-promotion, nepotism, or other unethical ends, endogeny itself should not be equated with them and can be the result of a narrow or new field of research.
A world famous scientist and university president brought down by a student journalist’s investigative reporting. But the big story is how we fund and reward ethical research.
The copyright warning notice prescribed by the US Copyright Office misleads library patrons about their fair use rights, and must change.
Will artificial intelligence fatally undermine the integrity of scholarly publishing? A formal debate from the annual meeting of the Society for Scholarly Publishing.
With a lawsuit filed last week Pen America, Penguin Random House, authors, and parents began fighting book bans. Other publishers should help.
The ISMTE DEI Advisory Committee calls on the field of scholarly publishing to set goals and actively work to achieve operational carbon and climate neutrality.
Looking at five ‘lines’ that the publishing industry has broadly agreed upon, but that now we are finding ourselves crossing.
The Data Hazards project looks at the problems in applying traditional ethical values to research that uses machine learning and artificial intelligence.
Wiley’s Jay Flynn discusses the impact that paper mills had on Hindawi’s publishing program and how all stakeholders must collaborate to address behaviors that undermine research integrity.
Christos Petrou takes a look at the Guest Editor model for publishing and its recent impact on Hindawi and MDPI, as Clarivate has delisted some of their journals.
Is the OA movement painting itself into a corner with concerns about new OA rules and regulations?