[…] of tasks, such as manuscript screening, reviewer selection, and language enhancement, enhance or detract from the efficiency of the review workflow? Can AI’s contribution extend beyond efficiency to encompass improvements in the overall quality and objectivity of the peer review […]
[…] 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, […]
[…] future. Many AI researchers are currently working on enabling explainable and transparent AI, but this research will take time. Improve Workflow “Is this workflow the right one for our needs?” is a perennial question in our industry — and one […]
[…] new skills with limited budgets, publishers should carefully navigate quiet hiring. Currently, our infrastructures, which are built primarily on people-driven workflows, are not equipped to handle the repercussions of threatened, burned-out, career-cushioning staff. While we are designing tools and systems […]
[…] 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, […]
[…] the impacts were found to be somewhat limited for Google Scholar. DOI construction and assignment is key to UTP’s publishing workflows and processes, and this will continue to be seen as a key component of our discoverability strategy, albeit with […]
[…] the focus is typically on formal publications: the books, articles, or websites that are the end products of a publishing workflow. The need to address accessibility upstream in those workflows is critical. The papers scholars and scientists write, review, and […]
[…] disseminate, there are fees to consider when supporting these initiatives. Our journal incurs the usual costs associated with web hosting, submission workflows, peer review, production, DOI assignment, reference linking and similarity checking. In terms of equity, diversity and inclusion, the challenge […]
[…] Clarivate Analytics has added a preprints citation index to the Web of Science. Journals are actively incorporating preprints into their workflow. And duplicate peer review doesn’t seem quite so unethical anymore. Also, since there are widely varied practices for citing non-peer-reviewed […]
[…] currently being used in (scholarly) publishing? HK: It’s hard to think of an area where AI isn’t touching the publishing workflow! If I go through the full scientific publishing flow, there are AI tools to support article writing (such as […]
[…] count or half-tones, but there’s very little practical information shared with consumers regarding shifts in the supply chain or production workflows. Users just know that print is increasingly expensive. I casually drew three printed titles from university presses from my […]
[…] their work. But we also want to offer the system to other organizations who wish to move to preprint review workflows, in particular learned societies, who already can deliver expert review and are looking for new publishing options. Our funding […]
[…] DOI that will be then passed on to the VoR, and as a result they can accrue citations. Figure 2. Workflow from acceptance to issue publication. Barring MDPI, peer review appears static MDPI is a fast-growing and controversial publisher. It […]
[…] what was involved in developing the PRW? Responsibly sharing manuscript metadata at scale requires knowledge, experience, infrastructure, and a well-designed workflow. Through our experience with the PEERE project, and based on the advice and knowledge of that group, we learned […]
[…] (do ‘X’ or we won’t publish this manuscript) when authors can be compelled to comply with a funder data sharing policy. A potential workflow would see journals pass ‘in review’ articles to a third party to assess compliance with the relevant funder policies, and […]