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Guest Post – Metrics Sonification of Team Size Effects on Disruptive Research

Data sonification is the process of translating data into sound. Here, Lutz Bornmann and Christian Leibel present the sonified results of a recent analysis of the impact of scientific team size on innovation.

  • By Lutz Bornmann, Christian Leibel
  • Jul 29, 2025
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Chefs de Cuisine: Perspectives from Publishing’s Top Table — Carsten Buhr

Robert Harington talks to Carsten Buhr, CEO of De Gruyter Brill, in this series of perspectives from some of Publishing’s leaders across the non-profit and for-profit sectors of our industry.

  • By Robert Harington
  • Jul 25, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

Guest Post — Vital Voices: The Student Journal Symposium for Literary and Research Publications

The George Washington Student Journal Symposium demonstrates how student-led journals inspire young people and nurture best practices in scholarly communications.

  • By John W. Warren
  • Jul 10, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Ask the Librarians: What Did You Take Away from SSP’s 2025 Annual Meeting?

Librarian attendees reflect on their experiences at SSP’s Annual Meeting in Baltimore.

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad
  • Jun 25, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Ask The Fellows: What Did You Take Away from SSP’s 2025 Annual Meeting?

The 2025 SSP Fellows reflect on their experiences at the Annual Meeting in Baltimore.

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad
  • Jun 20, 2025
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

We Need AI Standards for Scholarly Publishing: A NISO Workshop Report

NISO issues a report on workshops looking to improve the efficiency of working with AI systems in scholarly publishing

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Jun 12, 2025
  • 5 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Ask The Chefs: What Did You Take Away from SSP’s 2025 Annual Meeting?

The Scholarly Kitchen Chefs reflect on what they took away from the conversations and vibes at the 2025 SSP Annual Meeting.

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad, Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Charlie Rapple, Roy Kaufman, Robert Harington, Alice Meadows, Randy Townsend
  • Jun 9, 2025
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Guest Post — Public Access to the Endless Frontier

Vannevar Bush’s “The Endless Frontier” served as both blueprint and symbol of the American research enterprise. His writings are worth re-examination, as the country grapples (again) with the relationship between science and the American public.

  • By Alexa Pearce
  • May 19, 2025
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

SSP’s Early Career Development Podcast Episode 22: A Primer on Research Integrity & Publishing Ethics

In this episode of SSP’s Early Career Development Podcast, hosts Meredith Adinolfi (Cell Press) and Sara Grimme (Digital Science) chat with Rafal Marszalek, the Chief Editor at Nature’s largest journal, Scientific Reports about publication ethics and research integrity.

  • By Meredith Adinolfi, Sara Grimme
  • May 9, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 2 mins

Guest Post:  Mentorship Program is a Win-Win for SSP Members

The SSP’s Mentorship Program is valuable for professionals at all career levels and offers learning opportunities — both for the mentor and the mentee.

  • By Martha Keyes, Rachel Ginder
  • May 7, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Is The Climate Change-Academia Relationship Changing Too Fast?

While our understanding of climate change is shaped by academia, the climate crisis also shapes academia’s research and teaching in numerous ways. In this article, I explore the current climate change-academia relationship and touch upon some envisaged changes.

  • By Haseeb Irfanullah
  • May 6, 2025
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Rubber Ducking For Research Communication: Why Explaining to Nobody Helps You Explain to Anybody

Explaining research to a rubber duck might sound odd, but it could be the secret to clearer thinking and better communication. This post explores how “rubber ducking” — a technique borrowed from programming — can help researchers explain complex ideas with more clarity, creativity, and confidence.

  • By Charlie Rapple
  • Apr 24, 2025
  • 12 Comments
  • Time To Read: 3 mins

Guest Post:  Preprints Serve the Anti-science Agenda – This Is Why We Need Peer Review

Science is built on a foundation of rigor and credibility. Preprints are adding to the crumbling of that foundation, which is already under attack by anti-science political agendas.

  • By David Green
  • Apr 17, 2025
  • 36 Comments
  • Time To Read: 3 mins

In an Age of Chaos, Some Things Remain Constant. Like, Gravity…

In chaotic times, we must look for reliable things, like the joy of dropping stuff off a tall building…

  • By David Crotty
  • Apr 4, 2025
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

Guest Post — No Data? No Acceptance. How IOP Publishing is Strengthening Open Science

Nicola Davies from IOPP details the publisher’s new data sharing requirements for authors.

  • By Nicola Davies
  • Apr 1, 2025
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

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