The Scholarly Kitchen

What’s Hot and Cooking In Scholarly Publishing

  • About
  • Archives
  • Collections
    Scholarly Publishing 101 -- The Basics
    Collections
    • Scholarly Publishing 101 -- The Basics
    • Academia
    • Business Models
    • Discovery and Access
    • Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility
    • Economics
    • Libraries
    • Marketing
    • Mental Health Awareness
    • Metrics and Analytics
    • Open Access
    • Organizational Management
    • Peer Review
    • Strategic Planning
    • Technology and Disruption
  • Translations
    topographic world map
    Translations
    • All Translations
    • Chinese
    • German
    • Japanese
    • Korean
    • Spanish
  • Chefs
  • Podcast
  • Follow

Archives

Mental Health Awareness Mondays — Unlocking Your Institution’s Collective Genius: Cognitive Inclusion Improves Wellness and Maximizes your Societal Impact

In today’s Mental Health Awareness Monday post, Lisa Colledge shows how your research culture can be an asset that boosts mental health and innovation.

  • By Lisa Colledge
  • Aug 19, 2024
  • 10 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Variability, Irregular Publisher Metadata, and the Ongoing Evolution of Databases Complicates Reproducibility in Bibliometrics Research

Bibliometric databases are essential tools for research and publishing strategy. But the variability in how they parse publisher metadata and their constant evolution makes it difficult, if not impossible, to exactly reproduce any given piece of research.

  • By David Crotty
  • Aug 15, 2024
  • 5 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Should Publishers Invoice Authors for Retraction Costs?

It is essential to address the hidden costs of retraction and to discuss who needs to bear this cost.

  • By Roohi Ghosh, Chirag Jay Patel
  • Aug 8, 2024
  • 8 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Guest Post — Never Waste a Good Crisis: A Conversation with Klaas Sijtsma, Former Rector Magnificus of Tilburg University

An interview with Klaas Sijtsma discussing the importance of statistical analysis in research integrity.

  • By Natalie Simon
  • Aug 7, 2024
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Point/Counterpoint on the Framing of DEIA Efforts: Should We Separate the Personal from the Professional?

Today we offer a double-post, with a proposal and a response concerning how we frame our efforts toward Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility as a community.

  • By Haseeb Irfanullah, Lettie Y. Conrad, Dianndra Roberts
  • Jul 29, 2024
  • 12 Comments
  • Time To Read: 14 mins

A Look Under the Hood of Scopus AI: An Interview with Maxim Khan

To learn about how Scopus AI works under the hood, we interview Elsevier Sr. VP of Analytics Products and Data Platform, Maxim Khan.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Jul 25, 2024
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

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.

  • By Marcel LaFlamme
  • Jul 24, 2024
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

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.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Jul 16, 2024
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Guest Post – Mental Health Awareness Mondays: It’s OK to Talk ‘Mental Health’, Isn’t it? Two Founders, Two Opinions

Mental health affects everyone across an organization.  Today we explore insights on mental health with the founders and leaders of two industry organizations. What are the challenges of starting your own business and keeping it running?

  • By Lou Peck, Sowmya Mahadevan
  • Jul 15, 2024
  • 6 Comments
  • Time To Read: 14 mins

Kitchen Essentials: An Interview with Richard Jefferson of The Lens

In today’s Kitchen Essentials, Roger Schonfeld speaks with Richard Jefferson, founder of The Lens, which enables discovery and analysis for scholarly works, patents, and patent sequences.

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld
  • Jul 11, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 13 mins

The Case for Probabilistic Metadata

Moving from a binary right/wrong view of metadata to a probabilistic framework brings many benefits

  • By Tim Vines
  • Jul 10, 2024
  • 8 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

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.

  • By Phil Davis
  • Jul 1, 2024
  • 9 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Mental Health Awareness — Overcoming Imposter Syndrome: A Fireside Chat with Sarah Durrant, Lead from Within (Parts 3 & 4)

A fireside chat with Sarah Durrant; independent coach and transformational teacher, on the subject of Imposter Syndrome. Today, parts 3 & 4.

  • By October Ivins, Ryan Reeh, Adrian Stanley
  • Jun 28, 2024
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 2 mins

Mental Health Awareness — Overcoming Imposter Syndrome: A Fireside Chat with Sarah Durrant, Lead from Within (Parts 1 & 2)

A fireside chat with Sarah Durrant; independent coach and transformational teacher, on the subject of Imposter Syndrome. Today, parts 1 & 2.

  • By October Ivins, Ryan Reeh, Adrian Stanley
  • Jun 27, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 2 mins

Guest Post — At the Nature Picket

The strike at Springer Nature raises questions about how editorial work is valued.

  • By Charles Whalley
  • Jun 26, 2024
  • 7 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Posts pagination

Prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 … 26 Next

Official Blog of:

Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP)

The Chefs

  • Rick Anderson
  • Todd A Carpenter
  • Angela Cochran
  • Lettie Y. Conrad
  • David Crotty
  • Joseph Esposito
  • Roohi Ghosh
  • Robert Harington
  • Haseeb Irfanullah
  • Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
  • Phill Jones
  • Roy Kaufman
  • Scholarly Kitchen
  • Alice Meadows
  • Ann Michael
  • Alison Mudditt
  • Jill O'Neill
  • Charlie Rapple
  • Dianndra Roberts
  • Roger C. Schonfeld
  • Avi Staiman
  • Randy Townsend
  • Tim Vines
  • Jasmine Wallace
  • Karin Wulf
  • Hong Zhou

Interested in writing for The Scholarly Kitchen? Learn more.

Most Recent

  • Trust and Integrity: A Research Imperative
  • Guest Post — How the Growth of Chinese Research Is Bringing Western Publishing to Breaking Point
  • Guest Post: When the Front Door Moves: How AI Threatens Scholarly Communities and What Publishers Can Do

SSP News

Celebrating the Generations Fund, Raising $500,000 to Support the Future of Scholarly Communications

Jun 30, 2025

Open Access Workshop Returns—With New Features and Bulk Discounts for Staff Development

Jun 27, 2025
Follow the Scholarly Kitchen Blog Follow Us
Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP)

The mission of the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) is to advance scholarly publishing and communication, and the professional development of its members through education, collaboration, and networking. SSP established The Scholarly Kitchen blog in February 2008 to keep SSP members and interested parties aware of new developments in publishing.

The Scholarly Kitchen is a moderated and independent blog. Opinions on The Scholarly Kitchen are those of the authors. They are not necessarily those held by the Society for Scholarly Publishing nor by their respective employers.

  • About
  • Archives
  • Chefs
  • Podcast
  • Follow
  • Advertising
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Use
  • Website Credits
ISSN 2690-8085