Avi Staiman suggests revamping the peer review process to make it less about tearing down the work of others, and more about helping authors improve their papers.
As the SSP’s Annual Meeting for 2022 comes to a close, Jennifer Regala offers thoughts on what you can do to support and build our community.
Ana Heredia and Eloisa Viggiani discuss the founding of the Latin American Association of Scientific Editors, and focus on the use of metrics and the role of the region’s scientific journals in research evaluation.
Registration is open for the 2022 SSP Annual Meeting. We asked the community, “What are you most looking forward to about attending the SSP Annual Meeting in person?”
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has resulted in a sudden and serious decoupling of the West from Russia. Today, Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe and Roger Schonfeld discuss implications for research collaboration, scientific exchange, and scholarly communication.
An interview with Helen Zhang on the proposal for an Academic Integrity Awareness Index.
Today’s post looks back on the Journal of Emerging Investigators as it approaches it’s 10th anniversary of providing a forum from middle school and high school students.
Katie Einhorn, Steph Pollock, and Nick Paolini discuss APA’s efforts to collect demographic information during manuscript submission. In this interview, they share what they did, why, how, and what this means for other publishing organizations.
Today Wiley announced its purchase of J&J Editorial. Angela Cochran explores what this means for J&J customers not in the Wiley universe.
In a collaborative open peer review process, the editor’s role changes as much as the reviewer’s role. Editors share some insights about how this works at JOSS.
Continuing our series of posts for Peer Review Week 2021, guest authors Matt Giampoala, Randy Townsend, and Paige Wooden of AGU share their efforts to improve reviewer and editorial board diversity.
Identity in/ and Peer Review. Previewing some of the themes from this week’s posts for Peer Review Week.
The Steering Committee of Peer Review Week answers the question “What does identity in peer review mean to you?”
In anticipation of #PeerReviewWeek21 we asked the Chefs about the role of identity in peer review. See what they said and share your views!
Revisiting Alison Mudditt’s 2018 post on sexual harassment in our community. What has changed in the last three years, and what can we continue to do to eradicate this behavior for the next generation of women.