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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

Libraries and the Contested Terrain of “Neutrality”

Are libraries “neutral”? That question is way too simplistic to serve as anything other than a political football.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Mar 3, 2022
  • 17 Comments

Guest Post — Risks from Self-Referential Peer Review: An Interview with Jeffrey Unerman

Peer Review Week 2020 continues with a guest post by Bahar Mehmani of Elsevier, who interviewed Professor Jeffrey Unerman about his work on the risks of self-referential peer review.

  • By Bahar Mehmani
  • Sep 22, 2020
  • 1 Comment

Trust as an Ethic and a Practice in Peer Review

Chefs Alice Meadows, Jasmine Wallace, and Karin Wulf tackle Peer Review Week 2020’s theme of Trust in Peer Review with this post on trust as both an ethic and a practice

  • By Alice Meadows, Jasmine Wallace, Karin Wulf
  • Sep 21, 2020
  • 2 Comments

Guest Post — “I Say Tom-ay-to, You Say Tom-ah-to”: Bias Against Non-Native English Speakers in Scholarly Communications

In today’s guest post, Kasia Repeta of Duke University Press focuses on the often-overlooked issue of bias against those who speak English with an accent and urges us all to be more inclusive.

  • By Kasia Repeta
  • Jan 14, 2020
  • 20 Comments

Book Review: “Technically Wrong,” by Sara Wachter-Boettcher

A new book explores how biases and broken systems get built into technology products and platforms.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Jan 11, 2018
  • 12 Comments

All the News That Fits — What’s Really Driving Altmetric’s Top 100 Articles List?

The Altmetric “flower” is an icon, and the annual Top 100 list a much-anticipated event. But is the flower really a stalk?

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Dec 13, 2017
  • 13 Comments

Puppetmasters — Who Is Pulling the Strings in the New Information Economy?

Information manipulation is not new, yet everything is different. How do governments, preprints, algorithms, and our own responsibilities intersect? Where does peer review come in now?

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Nov 13, 2017
  • 6 Comments

Building Healthy Online Communities — An Interview with Rachel Happe

Community management has become a key part of social media and online publishing, whether we realize it or not. In this interview, an expert in the fields shares some views of how organizations can benefit from a more singular focus.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Oct 24, 2017
  • 3 Comments

Transforming Research, in the Face of Uncertainty, Scarcity, and Bias

Last week’s Transforming Research conference in Baltimore, MD, gathered a range of speakers across the academic and professional spectrum. Charlie Rapple highlights some of the new research that was shared, and draws out some of the prevalent themes.

  • By Charlie Rapple
  • Oct 18, 2017
  • 12 Comments

Defining Moment — What Do We Mean When We Say “Diversity”?

The term “diversity” can be thrown around like we know what it means, but it is highly contextual, not always visual, and tricky to implement meaningfully.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Oct 11, 2017
  • 12 Comments

Exaggerated Claims — Has "Publish or Perish" Become "Publicize or Perish"?

A recent study finds that academic press offices exaggerate claims in their press releases about published research. Worse, the vast majority of these find their way into subsequent reporting.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Dec 15, 2014
  • 6 Comments

Virtual Reality Research — Some Early Problems with Data Reanalysis and Risks of Open Data

The idea of “reanalysis” needs to be rethought, if recent examples are any indication of what this trend could do to science.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Oct 16, 2014
  • 8 Comments

Size and Discipline Bias in F1000 Journal Rankings

The rankings of journals based on F1000 scores reveals a strong bias against larger journals and those with little disciplinary overlap with the biosciences.

  • By Phil Davis
  • Jan 27, 2012
  • 17 Comments

The Subtle Conflicts of Interest All Humans Face

Not all conflicts are monetary. Sometimes, the pressure to do something good can lead to biased behavior.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Sep 2, 2011
  • 0 Comments
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