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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

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: 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 — Gatekeepers of Trust: Reaffirming the Publisher’s Role in Service of the Reader

The most vital and enduring contribution of scholarly publishers is their role as gatekeepers — not as obstacles to knowledge but as stewards of quality, integrity, and trust.

  • By Ashutosh Ghildiyal
  • May 12, 2025
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Peer Review Has Lost Its Human Face. So, What’s Next?

I think human-dependent peer review has lost its human element, thus its relevance, so what we can do to install a new system by abandoning the present one?

  • By Haseeb Irfanullah
  • Apr 9, 2025
  • 19 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Guest Post — New Directions Seminar: Reverse Roundtables Kept the Post-Lunch Conversations Going!

What are the new directions in scholarly publishing? Check out the unique “reverse roundtable” discussions at SSP’s New Directions seminar!

  • By Matt Cannon, Heather Staines, Jordan Schilling
  • Jul 23, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Guest Post — DOAJ’s Role in Supporting Trust in Scholarly Journals: Current Challenges and Future Solutions

In this post we reflect on the current threats to trust in scholarly journal publishing, and the implications for organizations like Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) that seek to uphold that trust.

  • By Cenyu Shen, Joanna Ball
  • Jun 6, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Guest Post: The STM Integrity Hub — Connecting the Dots in a Dynamic Landscape

An update on progress from the STM Research Integrity Hub.

  • By Joris van Rossum
  • May 23, 2024
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Guest Post — Elevating Scholarly Publishing through Collaboration: Insights from Publisherspeak US 2023 Part 2

Part two of a look back at the Publisherspeak meeting — today’s themes: metadata infrastructure and diversity in authorship and editorial processes.

  • By Ravi Venkataramani, Sowmya Mahadevan, Abhaya Ranganathan, Jason De Boer, Louise Russell, Patricia Kershaw, Richard di Santo, David Haber, Randy Townsend
  • Apr 26, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Guest Post — Elevating Scholarly Publishing through Collaboration: Insights from Publisherspeak US 2023 Part 1

Part one of a look back at the Publisherspeak meeting — today’s themes: author experience (AX) and AI.

  • By Ravi Venkataramani, Sowmya Mahadevan, Abhaya Ranganathan, Jason De Boer, Louise Russell, Patricia Kershaw, Richard di Santo, David Haber, Randy Townsend
  • Apr 25, 2024
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Guest Post: The Future of Image Integrity in Scientific Research

As high profile cases about image integrity problems in scientific papers become more frequent, the community must consider how to overcome the issues with the manual image review process and the benefits of AI in rapidly detecting, and potentially preventing, these issues.

  • By Dror Kolodkin-Gal
  • Apr 23, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Inclusivity is Making This Year’s SSP Annual Meeting Better than Ever

Behind the scenes, we’ve been working over the last 9 months to re-engineer the SSP’s Annual Meeting program to include more new voices in our industry, and we can’t wait to share the results with you.

  • By Tim Lloyd, Erin Foley, Jessie Slater
  • Apr 12, 2024
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

The Latest “Crisis” — Is the Research Literature Overrun with ChatGPT- and LLM-generated Articles?

Journal articles with ChatGPT authored text are being found. How common is this in the literature? And how, or better yet, when, is this problematic text slipping through to publication?

  • By David Crotty
  • Mar 20, 2024
  • 26 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Guest Post – Publishing Fast or Slow: How Speed Varies for Similar Journals

Christos Petrou looks at the factors that go into determining a journal’s turnaround times, and how we can help authors make better-informed choices.

  • By Christos Petrou
  • Mar 19, 2024
  • 13 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

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