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

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
  • 5 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Welcoming a New Chef in the Kitchen, Roohi Ghosh

Today, Roohi Ghosh officially joins us as a regular contributor in The Scholarly Kitchen.

  • By David Crotty
  • Oct 12, 2023
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

AI and Scholarly Societies

Robert Harington provides a template for scholarly societies wondering how to grapple with the overwhelming and omnipresent prospect of an AI future.

  • By Robert Harington
  • Oct 11, 2023
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Building a Voluntary Contribution Transaction System

Here I propose a framework for a Voluntary Contribution Transaction system to recognize the voluntary contributions in the scholarly workflow and to give tangible benefits to the volunteers.

  • By Haseeb Irfanullah
  • Oct 9, 2023
  • 8 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

The American Chemical Society Offers a New Twist on the Article Processing Charge: An Interview with Sarah Tegen

The American Chemical Society is offering a new approach to funding open-access articles; Rick Anderson interviews Sarah Tegen about it.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Oct 2, 2023
  • 23 Comments
  • Time To Read: 3 mins

Ending Human-Dependent Peer Review

Human-dependent peer review is inequitable, suffers from injustice, and is potentially unsustainable. Here’s why we should replace it (eventually) with AI-based peer review.

  • By Haseeb Irfanullah
  • Sep 29, 2023
  • 10 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Guest Post — Striking a Balance: Humans and Machines in the Future of Peer Review and Publishing

How do we strike a balance between humans and AI to improve peer review? We’ve interviewed a few publishing experts who specialize in human and AI ethical, equitable, and sustainable publishing solutions to share their thoughts on the future of peer review.

  • By Chhavi Chauhan, Chirag Jay Patel
  • Sep 28, 2023
  • 8 Comments
  • Time To Read: 11 mins

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
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

How Does Mandated Code-sharing Change Peer Review? An Interview with PLOS Computational Biology

In today’s Peer Review Week guest post, Joe Pold of PLOS interviews the senior editorial team of PLOS Computational Biology about their experience of mandating code sharing for the journal, and its impact on peer review

  • By Joe Pold
  • Sep 26, 2023
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Reflections on Peer Review and the Humane Future of Publishing

In today’s post Alice Meadows, Jasmine Wallace, and Karin Wulf kick off a week of posts to celebrate Peer Review Week 2023 with their thoughts on peer review and the future of publishing.

  • By Alice Meadows, Jasmine Wallace, Karin Wulf
  • Sep 25, 2023
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

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
  • Time To Read: 10 mins

Having the Courage to Explain Research in Plain Language

The Curse of Knowledge is when we assume everyone else understands what we’re talking about, when they don’t. Good communication happens when we have the courage to make it simple.

  • By Charlie Rapple
  • Sep 13, 2023
  • 13 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

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
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Navigating the Shifting Sands: New Directions Organizers on the Upcoming Seminar

Volunteer organizers reflect on SSP’s upcoming 2023 New Directions seminar — early bird registration closes September 8th!

  • By Lillian Wang Selonick, Lettie Y. Conrad
  • Sep 6, 2023
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Guest Post — Can Inadequate Corrections Turn Misinformation into Disinformation?

Could the failure of a journal to visibly correct known errors in a publication, thereby propagating false information, be considered disinformation?

  • By Mark Bolland, Alison Avenell, Andrew Grey
  • Aug 31, 2023
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Posts pagination

Prev 1 … 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 … 19 Next

Official Blog of:

Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP)

The Chefs

  • Rick Anderson
  • Todd A Carpenter
  • Angela Cochran
  • Lettie Y. Conrad
  • David Crotty
  • Ashutosh Ghildiyal
  • Roohi Ghosh
  • Robert Harington
  • Haseeb Irfanullah
  • Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
  • Phill Jones
  • Roy Kaufman
  • Scholarly Kitchen
  • Stephanie Lovegrove Hansen
  • Alice Meadows
  • Alison Mudditt
  • Charlie Rapple
  • Dianndra Roberts
  • Maryam Sayab
  • Roger C. Schonfeld
  • Avi Staiman
  • Randy Townsend
  • Tim Vines
  • Hong Zhou

Interested in writing for The Scholarly Kitchen? Learn more.

Most Recent

  • Guest Post — Beyond Messaging: The Structural Case for Rebranding Scholarly Publishing
  • Guest Post — Your Next Reader Is a Machine, and We Are Ready
  • Guest Post — Self-Citation Is How Fields Grow

SSP News

Latest “Pulse Check” Results Reveal Diverse Approaches to Social Media

Jul 20, 2026

SSP Joins Nearly Half Million Comments in Opposition of Proposed OMB Revisions

Jul 15, 2026
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