Ask the Vendors: SSP 2023 Annual Meeting

[…] They aimed to save time during peer review and add an extra layer of oversight and evaluation to their publishing workflow. The question on everyone’s mind was how to increase publication output while maintaining high standards of quality and integrity. […]

Guest Post — Pandemic Disruptor: Canadian Perspectives on how COVID-19 is Changing Open Access in Canada (Part 2)

[…] are also explicitly asked if they have concerns about research integrity or publication ethics regarding the manuscript they review. Do workflow changes that move the point of feedback earlier upstream, like the Lancet example, help catch errors before publication? Possibly, […]

Guest Post – Starting a Novel Software Journal within the Existing Scholarly Publishing Ecosystem: Technical and Social Lessons

[…] to learn a publisher-specific system or use different authentication credentials to the ones they regularly use. The full JOSS publication workflow is shown in Figure 1. Figure 1. JOSS publication flowchart. (from https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4646164) JOSS began with a two-tiered model of […]

Breaking News: Annette Thomas Leaves Clarivate

[…] Nature Publishing Group and then Macmillan Science and Education. She founded Digital Science, the investment portfolio and incubator of scientific workflow and analytics services. After Nature and Springer merged, she served as Chief Scientific Officer of Springer Nature. Thomas joined […]

Agile isn’t Always Cheaper, But it Should Mitigate Risk

[…] and information is complex. The systems we work with, from conventional submission, content management and distribution platforms, to cutting edge workflow and research management products, often support multiple stakeholder workflows and interact with multiple data sets. There will inevitably be […]

Guest Post — Is It Enough to Say a Journal Is ‘Peer Reviewed’? The Case for Rating Journals Based on Peer Review Quality

[…] providing feedback that helps improve manuscripts. AI disclosure: Transparent policies regarding the use of AI tools within the peer review workflow, ensuring AI serves as an assistant without replacing critical human evaluation. Process efficiency and depth: A demonstrated ability to […]