A recap of a recent SSP webinar on artificial intelligence (AI) and scholarly publishing. How can this set of technologies help or harm scholarly publishing, and what are some current trends? What are the risks of AI, and what should we look out for?
After making up a false claim about a nonexistent study done by the AAAS, the AI software admitted that it made a mistake and then apologized.
Editors at The BMJ are lousy at predicting the citation performance of research papers. Or are they?
Rachel Helps, the Wikipedian-in-residence at the BYU libraries discusses the intersection of scholarly journals and Wikipedia.
In guest post, Simon Linacre of Digital Science discusses their latest state of open data survey against the backdrop of the recent OSTP memo on expanding public access to research results.
If we don’t know what citations mean, what does it mean when we count them? Revisiting a 2015 (!) post in light of recent developments in citation metrics and impact.
Authors need to understand more about producing web documents, particularly accessibility, if they want to forgo traditional publishing.
Clarivate Analytics announced today that all journals in the Web of Science Core Collection will get Impact Factors raising questions about the Emerging Sources Citation Index. Further, Clarivate will only report Impact Factors to the first decimal devaluing journal rank in subject categories.
A new conference explores ways research can turn the scientific method onto improving its own results.
Twitter does not increase citations, a reanalysis of author data shows. Did the authors p-hack their data?
When a reputable journal refuses to get involved with a questionable paper, science looks less like a self-correcting enterprise and more like a way to amass media attention.
Some scientific “urban legends” get debunked in today’s video. How does incorrect “common knowledge” become established?
The “version of record” is an organizing concept in scholarly publishing. It is by referent to that version that others are understood and it is the object of financial models, policies, and recognition and reward systems.
Learn how DataCite supports more than just data citation in today’s interview with Matt Buys, Helena Cousijn, and Paul Vierkant
Minhaj Rais looks at possible solutions for beneficial data mining activities that don’t infringe on user privacy.