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Guest Post — Is It Enough to Say a Journal Is ‘Peer Reviewed’? The Case for Rating Journals Based on Peer Review Quality

Peer Review Quality Ratings could offer a powerful step toward restoring faith in the scholarly research system, highlight exemplary practices, and ensure that robust, verified science continues to illuminate the path forward for humanity.

  • By Ashutosh Ghildiyal, Gareth Dyke
  • Sep 16, 2025
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Ask the Chefs: What’s a Bold Experiment with AI in Peer Review You’d Like to See Tested?

To kick off Peer Review Week, we asked the Chefs, What’s a bold experiment with AI in peer review you’d like to see tested?

  • By Maryam Sayab, Tim Vines, Haseeb Irfanullah, Hong Zhou, Alice Meadows
  • Sep 15, 2025
  • 11 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

New Directions in Scholarly Publishing: What We’re Looking Forward to This Year

What can you expect from this fall’s New Directions in Scholarly Publishing Seminar in Washington, DC?

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad, Ginny Herbert
  • Sep 12, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

From Detection to Disclosure — Key Takeaways on AI Ethics from COPE’s Forum

Summing up the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Forum discussion on Emerging AI Dilemmas in Scholarly Publishing, which explored the many challenges AI presents for the scholarly community.

  • By Hong Zhou, Marie Soulière
  • Aug 25, 2025
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Guest Post — From Ivory Tower to Editorial Desk: Navigating the Leap from Academia to Scholarly Publishing

Today, guest blogger, Priyanka Gupta, shares the story of her career journey from academia to editorial leadership.

  • By Priyanka Gupta
  • Aug 6, 2025
  • 6 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Guest Post — Fear, Learning, and Luddites: Opportunities to Lead the AI Revolution

Scholarly communications leaders have the opportunity to turn AI uncertainty into discovery.

  • By Samantha Green
  • Aug 5, 2025
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Guest Post — The Accessibility Illusion: When AI Simplification Fails the Users With Cognitive Disabilities

Guest blogger Hema Thakur shares results of her experiment using AI to improve the accessibility of peer review feedback — her findings may concern you!

  • By Hema Thakur
  • Jul 22, 2025
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Guest Post: Gatekeepers of Meaning — Peer Review, AI, and the Fight for Human Attention

Guest blogger, Ashutosh Ghildiyal, asks: Is AI for us, or are we for AI? In the all-important context of peer review, can we leverage AI to amplify human thought rather than replace us?

  • By Ashutosh Ghildiyal
  • Jul 17, 2025
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 10 mins

Guest Post — How the Growth of Chinese Research Is Bringing Western Publishing to Breaking Point

Christos Petrou examines the rapid growth in publication volume coming from China, and how that is impacting the publishing industry.

  • By Christos Petrou
  • Jul 8, 2025
  • 14 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Guest Post — Invisible by Design? Rethinking Global Indexing to Include MENA Journals

This post explores why many Middle East- and North Africa-based journals remain underrepresented in global indexing databases, how this affects both local and international knowledge flows, and what alternative pathways can bring the region into fuller view.

  • By Maryam Sayab
  • Jul 3, 2025
  • 27 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Debate: Journal Editors Do Not Need To Worry About Preventing Misinformation From Being Spread

A summary of the European Association of Science Editors (EASE) debate session, where Haseeb Irfanullah argued in favor of a motion declaring that journal editors do not need to worry about preventing the spread of misinformation, while Are Brean argued against it.

  • By Haseeb Irfanullah, Are Brean
  • Jun 24, 2025
  • 7 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Rethinking Peer Review in the AI Era: Announcing the Theme for Peer Review Week 2025

We are pleased to announce the official theme for Peer Review Week 2025, to be held from 15–19 September 2025.

  • By Maryam Sayab, Roohi Ghosh, Gareth Dyke, Maria Machado
  • Jun 10, 2025
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Guest Post — Trust and Transparency in Open Access Book Publishing:  Part 1

How does the Directory of Open Access Books navigate challenges to instill trust and transparency. Part 1 of 2.

  • By Jordy Findanis, Niels Stern
  • Jun 3, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Guest Post — Reading the Leaves of Publishing Speed: The Cases of Hindawi, Frontiers, and PLOS

The analysis of operational data is complex, dull, and unrewarding. It is also necessary. Three case studies of major journals and portfolios explain why.

  • By Christos Petrou
  • May 29, 2025
  • 25 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Building a Shared Culture: A Post-acquisition Interview with Krishna K. Chinnaiah and Alice Ellingham of Molecular Connections

Today, Alice Meadows talks to Krishna K. Chinnaiah and Alice Ellingham of Molecular Connections about their experience of (respectively) acquiring and being acquired

  • By Alice Meadows
  • May 21, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

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