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Archives: Peer Review

Guest Post — The Accessibility Illusion: When AI Simplification Fails the Users With Cognitive Disabilities

Guest blogger Hema Thakur shares results of her experiment using AI to improve the accessibility of peer review feedback — her findings may concern you!

  • By Hema Thakur
  • Jul 22, 2025
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Guest Post: Gatekeepers of Meaning — Peer Review, AI, and the Fight for Human Attention

Guest blogger, Ashutosh Ghildiyal, asks: Is AI for us, or are we for AI? In the all-important context of peer review, can we leverage AI to amplify human thought rather than replace us?

  • By Ashutosh Ghildiyal
  • Jul 17, 2025
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 10 mins

Preprints and Journals: A Model Publishing Ecosystem

Robert Harington digs into the world of preprints. He uses the field of mathematics to explore how an inclusive view of preprints and published articles leads to a research ecosystem that is greater than the sum of the parts.

  • By Robert Harington
  • Jul 14, 2025
  • 5 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Guest Post — How the Growth of Chinese Research Is Bringing Western Publishing to Breaking Point

Christos Petrou examines the rapid growth in publication volume coming from China, and how that is impacting the publishing industry.

  • By Christos Petrou
  • Jul 8, 2025
  • 14 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Editing in the Age of Misinformation: A Report on the 2025 EASE Conference

In today’s post, three Scholarly Kitchen Chefs — Haseeb Irfanullah, Phill Jones, and Alice Meadows — report on the recent European Association of Science Editors (EASE) Conference (Oslo, May 14-16). 

  • By Alice Meadows, Haseeb Irfanullah, Phill Jones
  • Jun 17, 2025
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

Rethinking Peer Review in the AI Era: Announcing the Theme for Peer Review Week 2025

We are pleased to announce the official theme for Peer Review Week 2025, to be held from 15–19 September 2025.

  • By Maryam Sayab, Roohi Ghosh, Gareth Dyke, Maria Machado
  • Jun 10, 2025
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Guest Post — Trust and Transparency in Open Access Book Publishing:  Part 1

How does the Directory of Open Access Books navigate challenges to instill trust and transparency. Part 1 of 2.

  • By Jordy Findanis, Niels Stern
  • Jun 3, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Guest Post — Reading the Leaves of Publishing Speed: The Cases of Hindawi, Frontiers, and PLOS

The analysis of operational data is complex, dull, and unrewarding. It is also necessary. Three case studies of major journals and portfolios explain why.

  • By Christos Petrou
  • May 29, 2025
  • 25 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Guest Post — Gatekeepers of Trust: Reaffirming the Publisher’s Role in Service of the Reader

The most vital and enduring contribution of scholarly publishers is their role as gatekeepers — not as obstacles to knowledge but as stewards of quality, integrity, and trust.

  • By Ashutosh Ghildiyal
  • May 12, 2025
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Guest Post:  Preprints Serve the Anti-science Agenda – This Is Why We Need Peer Review

Science is built on a foundation of rigor and credibility. Preprints are adding to the crumbling of that foundation, which is already under attack by anti-science political agendas.

  • By David Green
  • Apr 17, 2025
  • 36 Comments
  • Time To Read: 3 mins

Peer Review Has Lost Its Human Face. So, What’s Next?

I think human-dependent peer review has lost its human element, thus its relevance, so what we can do to install a new system by abandoning the present one?

  • By Haseeb Irfanullah
  • Apr 9, 2025
  • 19 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Research Integrity, Image Manipulation, Content Provenance and the C2PA

Image integrity has been a growing issue in scholarly publishing. Todd Carpenter suggests we addreess the problem of image integrity at scale.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Mar 13, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion in Pre-Award Funding Processes: Actions, Not Words

In today’s post, Alice Meadows shares an update on a project to improve DEI in pre-award funding applications.

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Mar 6, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Creating the Publishing Platforms that Next-Gen Professionals Expect

Will the next generation of professions be impressed with the content platforms and workflow tools we currently have? Angela Cochran imagines a world where we meet the challenge of modernized systems.

  • By Angela Cochran
  • Feb 27, 2025
  • 9 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Molecular Connections Buys Morressier

Molecular Connections has purchased Morressier. Analysis from Roger C. Schonfeld.

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld
  • Jan 29, 2025
  • 13 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

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