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Archives: Automation

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.

  • By Brandy Schillace
  • Jan 15, 2025
  • 11 Comments

Guest Post — Upholding the Integrity of Open Science

As preprints become an increasingly integral part of scholarly communication, can automated screening tools improve their reliability and preprint servers’ operational efficiency?

  • By Krishna Kumar Venkitachalam
  • Oct 23, 2024
  • 2 Comments

Peer Review Week 2024: “Innovation and Technology in Peer Review”

We’re delighted to reveal the eagerly awaited theme for this year’s Peer Review Week, Innovation and Technology in Peer Review.

  • By Roohi Ghosh, Maria Machado, Gareth Dyke, Maryam Sayab
  • May 29, 2024
  • 1 Comment

Guest Post: The Future of Image Integrity in Scientific Research

As high profile cases about image integrity problems in scientific papers become more frequent, the community must consider how to overcome the issues with the manual image review process and the benefits of AI in rapidly detecting, and potentially preventing, these issues.

  • By Dror Kolodkin-Gal
  • Apr 23, 2024
  • 0 Comments

The State of Scholarly Metadata: 2023

A new interactive report on the research lifecycle designed to offer a deeper understanding of the state of scholarly metadata in 2023 is presented.

  • By Jamie Carmichael, Jessica Thibodeau, Roy Kaufman
  • May 9, 2023
  • 6 Comments

Guest Post — Enabling Trustable, Transparent, and Efficient Submission and Review in an Era of Digital Transformation

Digital transformation in submission and peer review offers improvements for publications and a better experience for researchers and journal staff.

  • By Hong Zhou, Sylvia Izzo Hunter
  • Jan 31, 2023
  • 4 Comments

The Dangers of Automation: Keep Your Pokemon-playing Fish Away from Your Credit Cards

A YouTuber sets up a system where the swimming patterns of his fish let them “play” Pokemon online. What could possibly go wrong?

  • By David Crotty
  • Jan 20, 2023
  • 1 Comment

Guest Post – AI and Scholarly Publishing: A View from Three Experts

A recap of a recent SSP webinar on artificial intelligence (AI) and scholarly publishing. How can this set of technologies help or harm scholarly publishing, and what are some current trends? What are the risks of AI, and what should we look out for?

  • By Anita de Waard
  • Jan 18, 2023
  • 2 Comments

Monographs, Transparency and Open Access

How can we better communicate to readers the degree of access being made available in the context of open access monographs?

  • By Jill O'Neill
  • Dec 5, 2016
  • 20 Comments

Luddite Horses and Why Your Job May Soon Cease to Exist

A sobering look at the coming “robot revolution”, and how for many jobs in the future, humans need not apply.

  • By David Crotty
  • Aug 22, 2014
  • 7 Comments

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