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Guest Post – Mental Health Awareness Mondays: Categorizing Mental Health Research

Hélène Draux presents the first of a two-part effort to chart the topography of mental health scholarship. Here, established methods, including pre-existing classifications are employed.

  • By Hélène Draux
  • Feb 26, 2024
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AI, Translations, and the Dominance of the English Language

AI’s potential for translation makes science fiction gadgets an increasingly likely reality. But how did English become the dominant global language, and just what do we mean by “English”?

  • By David Crotty
  • Feb 23, 2024
  • 1 Comment

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.

  • By Teresa Kubacka
  • Feb 21, 2024
  • 2 Comments

Let’s Be Cautious As We Cede Reading to Machines

AI might help with the deluge of content, but there are problems when we rely on machines to think for us.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Jan 25, 2024
  • 1 Comment

Guest Post – Mental Health Awareness:  What is Racial Battle Fatigue?

As we strive for a more equitable and inclusive future, how can we foster the well-being and potential of every individual, regardless of their ethnic or racial background?

  • By Maribel Gomez
  • Jan 22, 2024
  • 1 Comment

Guest Post — Hanging in the Balance: Generative AI Versus Scholarly Publishing

Balancing the anxiety and the excitement over the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) in scholarly publishing.

  • By Gwen Weerts
  • Jan 8, 2024
  • 8 Comments

The Peer Review Renaissance: An Urgent Call for Transformation

Are there enough reviewers though to meet demand and is the peer review process efficient enough to handle the sheer volume of papers being published? How can a combination of human expertise and AI make the peer review process more efficient?

  • By Roohi Ghosh
  • Oct 12, 2023
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Embedding DEIA in Peer Review Processes: An Interview with SSP’s DEIA Outreach Subcommittee about their Upcoming Toolkit

Our week of posts celebrating Peer Review Week 2023 continues with an interview with Shaina Lange and Sue Harris of SSP’s DEIA Committee Outreach Subcommittee, about their work on a soon-to-be-published toolkit to build DEIA in peer review processes and editorial roles

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Sep 27, 2023
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Ask the Chefs: What is the Single Most Pressing Issue for the Future of Peer Review?

What is the single most pressing issue for the future of peer review in scholarly publishing? In advance of Peer Review Week, we asked the Chefs.

  • By Karin Wulf, Rick Anderson, Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Hong Zhou, Avi Staiman, Alice Meadows, Haseeb Irfanullah, Angela Cochran, Charlie Rapple
  • Sep 22, 2023
  • 17 Comments

Inequities in Grant Funding Start Early: How Can We Address Them?

Inequities are rife in the research process, starting with the pre-award process. Based on feedback and input from researchers, research managers, and others a new report looks at the challenges and makes recommendations for how funders and institutions can address them.

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Sep 12, 2023
  • 1 Comment

Guest Post — Are HIT-backed AI Research Integrity Solutions the Need of the Hour?

In this article, Minhaj Rain explores how human intelligence tasks (HITs) and not simply more AI tools could be the way forward as a reliable and scalable solution for maintaining research integrity within the scholarly record.

  • By Minhaj Rais
  • Aug 3, 2023
  • 1 Comment

Guest Post — Workplace Equity 2023 Versus 2018: Reckoning or Retrenchment?

We invite you to participate in the 2023 Workplace Equity Survey. What has changed since the last (2018) Survey? Is DEIA still a priority, or are we seeing organizations take a step back?

  • By Susan Spilka
  • May 30, 2023
  • 1 Comment

Swimming in the AI Data Lake: Why Disclosure and Versions of Record Are More Important than Ever

Data quality and record keeping are going to grow in importance as a result of AI applications.

  • By Roy Kaufman
  • May 15, 2023
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Smorgasbord: Trends from the Spring 2023 Meetings and Conferences

It’s conference season in scholarly communications. Between them, the Scholarly Kitchen Chefs have been / will be at 9 events around the world in the 6 week stretch from early April to mid May. In a series of “Smorgasbord” posts, Chefs will share some of the key themes emerging for our sector. This week: Charlie Rapple reports from EARMA, Roy Kaufman from the London Book Fair, and David Crotty from STM. 

  • By Charlie Rapple, Roy Kaufman, David Crotty
  • May 11, 2023
  • 1 Comment

Guest Post – The Data Hazards of Mental Health Prediction

The Data Hazards project looks at the problems in applying traditional ethical values to research that uses machine learning and artificial intelligence.

  • By Nina Di Cara, Claire Haworth
  • Apr 14, 2023
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