Ensuring attribution is critical when licensing content to AI developers
Publishers should support scholarly authors by requiring license deals with AI developers include attribution in their outputs.
Guest Post: Improving Methods Reporting in the Life Sciences
What can we do to encourage and improve methods reporting in scientific articles? A new report summarizes recommendations for editors and publishers alike.
What To Do Once the Paper is Retracted: NISO Issues Recommended Practice on the Communication of Retractions, Removals, and Expressions of Concern
New NISO guidance on clear consistent display of retraction information will reduce inadvertent reuse of erroneous research.
bioRxiv and Citations: Just Another Piece of Flawed Bibliometric Research?
Even a flawed paper can offer lessons on how (not) to report, and what (not) to claim.
Guest Post — The Case For Not Citing Chatbots As Information Sources (Part II)
Citing chatbots as information sources offer little in terms of promoting smart use of generative AI and could also be damaging.
Guest Post — Chatbots: To Cite Or Not To Cite? (Part I)
If you use a chatbot in writing a text, and are discouraged from listing it as a coauthor, should you attribute the relevant passages to the tool via citation instead? Is it appropriate to cite chatbots as information sources?
Guest Post — There is More to Reliable Chatbots than Providing Scientific References: The Case of ScopusAI
A data scientist reviews ScopusAI (beta) and shares her analysis of its limitations, reliability, and potential.
Guest Post — The Perplexing Puzzle of the Top 2% Scientists List
A list of the most influential scientists suffers from anomalies and inaccuracies.
Kitchen Essentials: An Interview with Matt Buys and Helena Cousijn of DataCite
In today’s Kitchen Essentials post, Alice Meadows interviews Matt Buys and Helena Cousijn, respectively Executive Director and Director of Community Engagement for DataCite.
Guest Post — Improving Research Assessment One Tool at a Time: An Interview with Euan Adie of Overton
How can we measure the impact of research papers on influencing public policy? An interview with Euan Adie of Overton.
Reading: It Can’t Be About the Numbers
How many books do we read in a year? Wouldn’t a better question be how well, how thoughtfully we had engaged with long-form content?
Quantifying Consolidation in the Scholarly Journals Market
We all know the journals market has rapidly consolidated over recent years. But where’s the data? I set out to find some numbers to put behind the common sense.
Fashionable Goodness: Authors’ Choices in Publication
Authors can choose from a number of publication options. What drives an author to self-publish their book? What do they give up when they do?
Revisiting: Who Has All The Content?
Revisiting a post from 2017: Several services aim to gather all publications comprehensively. Who has all the content?
Guest Post – A Bibliometric Analysis of The Scholarly Kitchen
Librarian Cem Özel takes a look at the citation record for The Scholarly Kitchen.