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Guest Post — Building Sustainable Infrastructure for OA Book Metrics

Today’s guest author offers a progress report on recent efforts to build open-source technology for open access book metrics.

  • By Peter Potter
  • Sep 22, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Peer Review in Transition: Helen King and Christopher Leonard on AI and the Future of Peer Review

Today, we talk to thought leaders Helen King and Chris Leonard, who offer a nuanced look at how peer review might adapt, fracture, or reinvent itself in the AI era.

  • By Roohi Ghosh
  • Sep 18, 2025
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 10 mins

Peer Review in the Era of AI: Risks, Rewards, and Responsibilities

The future of peer review isn’t about choosing between humans and AI, or between speed and quality, but about combining the strengths of both to enable speed with quality, to ensure quality, ethics, and trust in the scholarly record.

  • By Hong Zhou
  • Sep 17, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

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

Peer Review Quality Ratings could offer a powerful step toward restoring faith in the scholarly research system, highlight exemplary practices, and ensure that robust, verified science continues to illuminate the path forward for humanity.

  • By Ashutosh Ghildiyal, Gareth Dyke
  • Sep 16, 2025
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Ask the Chefs: What’s a Bold Experiment with AI in Peer Review You’d Like to See Tested?

To kick off Peer Review Week, we asked the Chefs, What’s a bold experiment with AI in peer review you’d like to see tested?

  • By Maryam Sayab, Tim Vines, Haseeb Irfanullah, Hong Zhou, Alice Meadows
  • Sep 15, 2025
  • 11 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

New Directions in Scholarly Publishing: What We’re Looking Forward to This Year

What can you expect from this fall’s New Directions in Scholarly Publishing Seminar in Washington, DC?

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad, Ginny Herbert
  • Sep 12, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

When the Scoreboard Becomes the Game, It’s Time to Recalibrate Research Metrics

Today’s post discusses research metrics and their relationship to research integrity, inclusivity, and long-term impact.

  • By Maryam Sayab
  • Sep 11, 2025
  • 15 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Guest Post – ODI Survey on AI and Web-Scale Discovery

NISO’s Open Discovery Initiative (ODI) survey reflects the positive and negative expectations of generative AI in web-scale discovery tools.

  • By Ken Varnum
  • Sep 9, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Revisited: On Being a Leader Who Happens to Be a Woman of Color 

During the first Trump administration, Alice Meadows interviewed three women of color who are leaders in their fields about their experiences. In this post, they revisit the topic in the light of their new positions and today’s political environment.

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Sep 8, 2025
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

Guest Post – Code Plagiarism and AI Create New Challenges for Publishing Integrity

This post explores author, reviewer, and publisher ethics and responsibilities related to the use of AI in coding and publishing research software.

  • By Daniel S. Katz, Mohammad Hosseini, Scott C. Edmunds
  • Aug 28, 2025
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

From Detection to Disclosure — Key Takeaways on AI Ethics from COPE’s Forum

Summing up the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Forum discussion on Emerging AI Dilemmas in Scholarly Publishing, which explored the many challenges AI presents for the scholarly community.

  • By Hong Zhou, Marie Soulière
  • Aug 25, 2025
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Guest Post — From Overhead to Essential: The FAIR Model Recognizes Research Information Services as Essential to the Research Enterprise

FAIR represents the best opportunity of the models under consideration to ensure that research information services receive appropriate recognition and sustainable funding

  • By Hilary Craiglow
  • Aug 11, 2025
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Guest Post — How Science Is Gamed

A scholarly disinformation taxonomy could help prevent scholarly communications from being gamed by fraudulent actors.

  • By Leslie D. McIntosh, Will White
  • Aug 4, 2025
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Translating D’oh!

Wait, Homer Simpson doesn’t say “D’oh!” in different countries?

  • By David Crotty
  • Aug 1, 2025
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

Guest Post – Metrics Sonification of Team Size Effects on Disruptive Research

Data sonification is the process of translating data into sound. Here, Lutz Bornmann and Christian Leibel present the sonified results of a recent analysis of the impact of scientific team size on innovation.

  • By Lutz Bornmann, Christian Leibel
  • Jul 29, 2025
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

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