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Mental Health Awareness Mondays — The Courage to Be Uncertain: A New Approach to Impostor Feelings

Today’s guest bloggers reflect on the experience of “imposter syndrome” and how we might adopt a new approach to moments of uncertainty and change.

  • By Holly Koppel, Ashutosh Ghildiyal
  • Jan 26, 2026
  • 5 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 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

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

United2Act Against Paper Mills: Fighting Fraud that Corrupts the Scholarly Record

Fraud is undermining the integrity of the scholarly record. United2Act is striking back at paper mills.

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Deborah Kahn
  • Feb 27, 2024
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

The Second Digital Transformation

The scholarly publishing sector is undergoing its second digital transformation. Today, Ithaka S+R reviews this strategic landscape as part of a broader analysis of the shared infrastructure that supports scholarly communication.

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld, Oya Y. Rieger, Tracy Bergstrom
  • Jan 29, 2024
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Fortune Brainstorm AI Conference: Themes and Ideas

Themes and ideas from the Fortune Brainstorm AI. “People won’t lose their jobs to AI; they’ll lose their jobs to people that are using AI.”

  • By Ann Michael
  • Dec 20, 2023
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Finally Some Positive AI News: Elvis Meets Sir Mix-a-Lot

The AI takeover isn’t all doom and gloom. Finally, a long running musical question can be answered.

  • By David Crotty
  • Jul 14, 2023
  • 5 Comments
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

Guest Post — Addressing Paper Mills and a Way Forward for Journal Security

Wiley’s Jay Flynn discusses the impact that paper mills had on Hindawi’s publishing program and how all stakeholders must collaborate to address behaviors that undermine research integrity.

  • By Jay Flynn
  • Apr 4, 2023
  • 26 Comments
  • Time To Read: 3 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

It Isn’t Fake Science, Because It Isn’t Science at All. It’s Dupery.

What if even by saying “fake science” you inadvertently participate in a scam? What if this phrase legitimizes fraud, lies, and deceit?  Let’s call it what it is – dupery.

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Leslie D. McIntosh
  • Oct 25, 2022
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 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

Fraud and Peer Review: An Interview with Melinda Baldwin

Robert Harington and Melinda Baldwin discuss whether peer review has a role to play in uncovering scientific fraud.

  • By Robert Harington
  • Mar 24, 2022
  • 15 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Is Scientific Communication Fit for Purpose?

Roger Schonfeld argues that openness and politicization together have enabled public trust in science to erode. And science is insufficiently trustworthy. The scholarly communication sector must not ignore this situation.

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld
  • Nov 1, 2021
  • 23 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Guest Post — Putting Publications into Context with the DocMaps Framework for Editorial Metadata

The DocMaps Project offers a machine-readable, interoperable and extensible framework for capturing valuable context about the processes used to create research products such as journal articles.

  • By Jessica Polka, Gary McDowell, Tony Ross-Hellauer, Gabe Stein
  • Mar 3, 2021
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Elsevier Has Deployed an End-user Tracking Tool for Security. Should Users Be Concerned About Their Privacy?

Should library patrons be concerned about how Elsevier uses ThreatMetrix and how it tracks users? It’s complicated.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Oct 13, 2020
  • 7 Comments
  • Time To Read: 10 mins

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