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Guest Post – The Next Era of Reference Management: An Interview with William Gunn

Today’s guest post features an interview with William Gunn discussing how AI will (or won’t!) change the future of reference management tools.

  • By John Frechette
  • Jan 23, 2026
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Guest Post — A Systems Approach to Research Publishing: From Fragmentation to Cohesion

Today’s guest blogger sees scholarly publishing at a critical inflection point and research suffering from a flawed incentive structure. Can systems thinking offer innovative solutions?

  • By Ashutosh Ghildiyal
  • Nov 5, 2025
  • 9 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Greetings from SSP 2025 in Baltimore

Some thoughts midway through the SSP 2025 Annual Meeting.

  • By David Crotty
  • May 30, 2025
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 2 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 — 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

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

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

Kitchen Essentials: An Interview with Nici Pfeiffer of the Center for Open Science

Today’s Kitchen Essentials interview is with Nici Pfeiffer, Chief Product Officer for the Center for Open Science (COS), including the popular and highly-used Open Science Framework (OSF).

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Jun 11, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 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

Call for Carbon Neutrality in Scholarly Publishing

The ISMTE DEI Advisory Committee calls on the field of scholarly publishing to set goals and actively work to achieve operational carbon and climate neutrality.

  • By Shein Ei Cho, Michelle Fleetwood, Kathleen Kelly Halverson, Sarah McCormack, Mark Paglia, Dianndra Roberts
  • Apr 24, 2023
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Guest Post: Start at the Beginning – The Need for ‘Research Practice’ Training

Danny Kingsley suggests that research integrity begins with the training researchers receive at university. Achieving Open Research and increasing reproducibility requires systematic research training that focuses specifically on research practice.

  • By Danny Kingsley
  • Feb 23, 2023
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Research Integrity and Reproducibility are Two Aspects of the Same Underlying Issue – A Report from STM Week 2022

Observations on reproducibility and research integrity from London STM Week

  • By Phill Jones
  • Dec 14, 2022
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Guest Post – How Do We Measure Success for Open Science?

Iain Hrynaszkiewicz discusses PLOS’s Open Science Indicators initiatives and shares initial results.

  • By Iain Hrynaszkiewicz
  • Dec 13, 2022
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Guest Post — Peer Review and Research Integrity: Five Reasons to be Cheerful

Chris Graf (and colleagues) present five reasons to be cheerful about research integrity and peer review.

  • By Chris Graf
  • Sep 20, 2022
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Tribalism, Fraud, and the Loss of Perspective in Alzheimer’s Disease Research

A recent data falsification scandal in Alzheimer’s research raises new questions about perverse incentives in the culture and practice of science.

  • By Phill Jones
  • Aug 2, 2022
  • 15 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

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