Impact Metrics on Publisher Platforms: Who Shows What Where?
A review of 12 major publishers finds that they display an average of 6 journal-level impact metrics on their platforms. The Journal Impact Factor is the only metric displayed on all 12.
Guest Post — The Great Pullback: Why Academic Social Media’s Fragmentation Matters
Today’s guest bloggers share insights into the fragmented, tiring, and uncertain digital landscape for academics, and evidence that a shift is underway — with implications for scholarly communication that may be far-reaching.
The Next Disruption is Listening — In Every Language
Each new change in scholarly communication promises to make research fairer, faster, more transparent. Yet, in many cases, researchers, especially from under resourced countries or from countries where English is not the first language, face added pressure to catch up, rather than to move forward.
Five Tips for Hosting a Sustainable Event
Event planners are faced with the delicate balance between constructing spaces for deeper connection with the impact we’re having on our planet. Here’s what I’ve learned about planning events that prioritize sustainability.
Guest Post — Rethinking Disciplinary Data Regimes
Between a political policy environment focused on defunding and deleting data collections – an environment in which little can be trusted – and an onslaught of new AI tools that feed indiscriminately on data, bits of information at the intersection of rows and columns are appearing in headlines more than ever before. To avoid cultural memory loss, we must build systems that save what humanity needs across disciplinary silos rather than saving some archives and losing others through an accident of history.
Guest Post — “Have You Proved You’re Human Today?” Open Content and Web Harvesting in the AI Era
AI web harvesting bots are different from traditional web crawlers and violate many of the established rules and practices in place. Their rapidly expanding use is emerging as a significant IT management problem for content-rich websites across numerous industries.
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.
Guest Post – Where Do We All Fit In? Reflections on Belonging, Purpose, and Progress in Scholarly Publishing
Today’s guest post by Deja Forte declares: Publishing isn’t just about systems and standards; it’s about people. Each of us has the power to build bridges between knowledge and the lives it’s meant to benefit.
Guest Post — Beyond Open Access, Part 1: Make Academic Content Truly Accessible for All
Open access has revolutionized how research reaches readers — yet, true accessibility is an ethical imperative for institutions, publishers, and service providers to create genuinely inclusive scholarly communication.
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
Chefs de Cuisine: Perspectives from Publishing’s Top Table — Carsten Buhr
Robert Harington talks to Carsten Buhr, CEO of De Gruyter Brill, in this series of perspectives from some of Publishing’s leaders across the non-profit and for-profit sectors of our industry.
Guest Post — Protecting Progress: The Case for Staying Committed to Sustainability in 2025
Level 3 of STM’s SDG roadmap has launched, reminding us that academic publishers have both the responsibility & opportunity to be catalysts for positive, global change.
Chefs de Cuisine: Perspectives from Publishing’s Top Table — Melissa Junior
Robert Harington talks to Melissa Junior, Executive Publisher at The American Society for Microbiology, in this series of perspectives from some of Publishing’s leaders across the non-profit and for-profit sectors of our industry.
Guest Post — When the Front Door Moves: How AI Threatens Scholarly Communities and What Publishers Can Do
AI-enabled discovery and summarization tools seem like magic to end users, but for publishers it looks like disintermediation.
Guest Post — Invisible by Design? Rethinking Global Indexing to Include MENA Journals
This post explores why many Middle East- and North Africa-based journals remain underrepresented in global indexing databases, how this affects both local and international knowledge flows, and what alternative pathways can bring the region into fuller view.