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Archives: Ethics

Guest Post — The Perils of Using Generative AI to Perform Research Tasks: Editors’ and Publishers’ Viewpoints

Today’s guest post offers a review of a panel of publishers and editors discussing the pros and cons of using Generative AI, along with ethical and policy implications.

  • By Marco Marabelli, Robert M. Davison, Giovanni Gatti
  • Mar 9, 2026
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

SSP’s Early Career Development Podcast Episode 22: A Primer on Research Integrity & Publishing Ethics

In this episode of SSP’s Early Career Development Podcast, hosts Meredith Adinolfi (Cell Press) and Sara Grimme (Digital Science) chat with Rafal Marszalek, the Chief Editor at Nature’s largest journal, Scientific Reports about publication ethics and research integrity.

  • By Meredith Adinolfi, Sara Grimme
  • May 9, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 2 mins

Why Should Publishers Conserve Nature?

What role does/could scholarly publishing play in nature conservation?

  • By Haseeb Irfanullah
  • Mar 18, 2025
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

The Genesis and Purpose of the Forensic Scientometrics Declaration: An Interview with Dr. Leslie McIntosh

What is the Forensic Scientometrics Declaration, and how did it come about? An interview with Dr. Leslie McIntosh.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Jan 13, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Ethics In Scholarly Publishing Is More Than Following Guidelines

Without understanding the dimensions of ethics in scholarly communications, our attempts at improving the system through tools and training may not be effective and sustainable.

  • By Haseeb Irfanullah
  • Dec 9, 2024
  • 6 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

A Dissonance of Ideals: Openness, Copyright, and AI

Robert Harington attempts to reveal inherent conflicts in our drive to be as open as possible, authors’ need to understand their rights, and a library’s mandate to provide their patrons with the enhanced discovery that comes with AI’s large language models (LLMs).

  • By Robert Harington
  • Nov 25, 2024
  • 5 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Revisiting: Libraries and the Contested Terrain of “Neutrality”

Revisiting Rick Anderson’s 2022 post which asks, are libraries “neutral”? That question is way too simplistic to serve as anything other than a political football.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Sep 3, 2024
  • 7 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Honest Signaling and Research Integrity

Promoting research integrity is not just identifying bad behavior: problem articles can also be detected by the absence of ‘honest’ signals of integrity.

  • By Tim Vines, Ben Kaube
  • Apr 16, 2024
  • 18 Comments
  • Time To Read: 3 mins

Guest Post — Study Questions Whether Research Institutions Are the Appropriate Entity to Investigate Authorship Disputes in All Cases

Should the authors’ institution make decisions regarding authorship disputes on a paper?

  • By Itamar Ashkenazi, Oded Olsha
  • Jan 10, 2024
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

AI Beyond the Publishing Workflow

What uses for artificial intelligence (AI) might we expect outside of the publication workflow? Some answers to this question can be found through the lenses of sustainability, justice, and resilience.

  • By Haseeb Irfanullah
  • Aug 23, 2023
  • 5 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

The Intelligence Revolution: What’s Happening and What’s to Come in Generative AI

An update on how generative AI has progressed and how it has been applied to research publishing processes since ChatGPT was released, looking at business, application, technology, and ethical aspects of generative AI.

  • By Hong Zhou
  • Jul 20, 2023
  • 8 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

SSP Conference Debate: AI and the Integrity of Scholarly Publishing

Will artificial intelligence fatally undermine the integrity of scholarly publishing? A formal debate from the annual meeting of the Society for Scholarly Publishing.

  • By Rick Anderson, Tim Vines, Jessica Miles
  • Jun 27, 2023
  • 6 Comments
  • Time To Read: 11 mins

Drawing Lines to Cross Them: How Publishers are Moving Beyond Established Norms

Looking at five ‘lines’ that the publishing industry has broadly agreed upon, but that now we are finding ourselves crossing.

  • By Haseeb Irfanullah
  • Apr 20, 2023
  • 8 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Guest Post – The Data Hazards of Mental Health Prediction

The Data Hazards project looks at the problems in applying traditional ethical values to research that uses machine learning and artificial intelligence.

  • By Nina Di Cara, Claire Haworth
  • Apr 14, 2023
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

FORCE11 and COPE Release Recommendations on Data Publishing Ethics for Publishers and Repositories: A Discussion with the Working Group Leadership

FORCE11 and COPE release recommendations on data publishing ethics for researchers, publishers, and editors.

  • By Todd A Carpenter, Matt Cannon
  • Oct 20, 2022
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

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