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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
Molecular Connections Buys Morressier
Molecular Connections has purchased Morressier. Analysis from Roger C. Schonfeld.
Does Altering A Dataset Merit Retraction?
Self-archiving on personal sites is perfectly permitted under many journal data policies. But what happens when an author alters the underlying data?
Guest Post: An Editor’s Perspective on “My Very Last Issue.”
BMJ’s Medical Humanities Editor-in-Chief Brandy Schillace reflects on changes in publishing that are making important work harder to do.
The Genesis and Purpose of the Forensic Scientometrics Declaration: An Interview with Dr. Leslie McIntosh
What is the Forensic Scientometrics Declaration, and how did it come about? An interview with Dr. Leslie McIntosh.