A comprehensive set of recommendations designed to support researchers, peer-reviewed journals, and funding bodies in systematically incorporating intersectional perspectives have been formalized in the Guidelines for Intersectional Analysis in Science and Technology (GIST). Here we interview Londa Schiebinger, co-author of the Guidelines.
It is time for OA proponents to engage in public debate with academic associations, universities and national funding agencies, because the widespread use of academic content in AI models poses significant risks for the research ecosystem.
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?
How do the problems of misinformation and disinformation intersect with the concerns of scholarly communication?
Nicola Davies from IOPP details the publisher’s new data sharing requirements for authors.
Adapting to AI requires a commitment to fostering AI literacy and creating spaces to openly discuss its challenges and implications.
What can be done to resolve concerns about image integrity in scientific publications?
I tried three different large language models (LLMs) to rewrite a potential article.
The many trust issues in scholarly publishing might benefit from applying a zero-trust framework to the publication process.
What are prompts in our writing tools asking us if we want to “rewrite with AI” really telling us? And what would broad adoption of those tools mean for creativity and scholarly research communication?
This is the first article of three in a guest series reflecting on the main themes and ideas gathered and discussed at the Munin Conference at the end of 2024. Today’s focus is bibliodiversity.
Self-archiving on personal sites is perfectly permitted under many journal data policies. But what happens when an author alters the underlying data?
BMJ’s Medical Humanities Editor-in-Chief Brandy Schillace reflects on changes in publishing that are making important work harder to do.
What is the Forensic Scientometrics Declaration, and how did it come about? An interview with Dr. Leslie McIntosh.
Here we examine the second phase of China’s Journal Excellence Action Plan, its implications, its funding framework, and what it means for Chinese scientific journals, researchers, and the broader international academic publishing community.