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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Guest Post — How Science Is Gamed
A scholarly disinformation taxonomy could help prevent scholarly communications from being gamed by fraudulent actors.
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.
Guest Post — Beyond Access: Untangling Copyright Confusion in Asian Open Access Journals
In Asia, open access adoption is accelerating, yet the legal and structural underpinnings of this openness remain fragile, with significant licensing and copyright confusion.
We Need AI Standards for Scholarly Publishing: A NISO Workshop Report
NISO issues a report on workshops looking to improve the efficiency of working with AI systems in scholarly publishing
Guest Post — Trust and Transparency in Open Access Book Publishing : Part 2
How does the Directory of Open Access Books navigate challenges to instill trust and transparency. Part 2 of 2.
Guest Post — Trust and Transparency in Open Access Book Publishing: Part 1
How does the Directory of Open Access Books navigate challenges to instill trust and transparency. Part 1 of 2.
Discouraged, but not Dissuaded: The 2025 SSP President’s Address
Heather Staines Presidential Address from the SSP 2025 Annual Meeting.
Building a Shared Culture: A Post-acquisition Interview with Krishna K. Chinnaiah and Alice Ellingham of Molecular Connections
Today, Alice Meadows talks to Krishna K. Chinnaiah and Alice Ellingham of Molecular Connections about their experience of (respectively) acquiring and being acquired
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.
Guest Post: Eight Hypotheses Why Librarians Don’t Like Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)
AI-assisted search is here, and librarians need to have an honest discussion about how to integrate this new technology into library services. This post explores the parallels to the introduction of discovery layers and how to overcome some of the discomfort librarians might have with retrieval-augmented generation.