New Ways to Illuminate Stories in Your Usage Data

[…] nature of usage data,” as one analyst put it. Human-centered design research shows that we typically enter into data analysis workflows either intending to explore patterns within the data or to explain a trend observed in the data. Exploratory workflows […]

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

[…] doesn’t want to corrupt peer reviewers’ selfless acts with monetary incentives. Peer reviewers remain the only entity involved in publishing workflow who receive zero financial incentives for their services, in almost all journals. Monetizing the journal-reviewer relationship has been widely […]

Silverchair Buys ScholarOne from Clarivate

[…] outside society and commercial publishing.  ScholarOne Put another way: Outside of ScholarOne and the Silverchair platform, there are few publisher-grade workflow and infrastructure options that are not controlled by a major commercial publisher.  In this case, the transaction is for […]

Should Publishers Invoice Authors for Retraction Costs?

[…] financial costs associated with retractions? Jason Roberts, Co-founder Origin Editorial notes that “Editorial offices often face disruptions to their regular workflow and often work extra hours minus remuneration due to retractions.” Publishers also already incur significant expenses for investigations, notifications, […]

Trust in Scholarly Publishing

[…] biological and medical sciences and were put between fast science and fake news are now part of many peer-reviewed journals’ workflows. Despite our hopes that scientific research published in peer-reviewed journals is guiding our actions to fight global climate crisis, […]

Ask the Chefs: What is the Single Most Pressing Issue for the Future of Peer Review?

[…] operational and maintenance inefficiencies. As automation becomes prevalent, there’s a pressing need to redesign these processes to have an end-to-end workflow and leverage automated checks earlier in the submission phase.  The rise of AI also introduces concerns over research integrity, […]