Everyone agrees that the peer review process can never be perfect or foolproof, but that shouldn’t stop us from striving to improve and maintaining scientific integrity. David Stuart’s piece in ‘Research Information’ speaks eloquently about the challenges and possible solutions ( [ read more ]
There’s been plenty to chew over in the world of scholarly publishing recently – check out these articles:
A great opinion piece by Elliott Lumb, the founder of PeerRef, in ‘Research Information’ argues the benefits of journal-independent peer review (https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2023/02/23/guest-post-start-at-the-beginning-the-need-for-research-practice-training/).
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There is a double helping of discussion and guidance being served up in ‘The Scholarly Kitchen’, regarding the application of inclusive language in scholarly publishing.
Two new resources have recently been released by C4DISC | Coalition for Diversity and Inclusion in Scholarly Communications [ read more ]
Making best use of social media to promote research articles in learned journals can no longer be considered an afterthought – it’s an activity that now requires strategic planning for optimal timing and managing engagement.
The European Association of Science Editors (EASE) is [ read more ]
When there’s so much searchable literature readily available, do you ever wonder how much of it is truly original?
A paper in ‘Scientific Data’ by Lukas Gienapp, et al. describes the development, compilation and validation of the Webis-STEREO-21 dataset – a huge collection [ read more ]
In the latest edition of ‘The Scholarly Kitchen’, Erika Pastrana and Simon Adar contemplate the barriers that appear to remain to authors in opting for open access publication. They highlight research that shows a disparity in authors’ awareness, behavior and action in [ read more ]
As ChatGPT continues to conquer all before it, it’s worth bearing in mind that it should be used judiciously. Tyler Bishop, CMO of Ezoic, has written a neat list of “dos and don’ts” for the appropriate use of ChatGPT and similar AI [ read more ]
Clarivate have released their ‘Drugs to Watch 2023’ listing – the report includes information on the key trends, such as:
JAMA Network Open and JAMA Health Forum have now made their datasets available on DLAdata.com – this partnership with the Data Licensing Alliance makes these datasets easily accessible to data scientists for more efficient for artificial intelligence/machine learning. Read more at [ read more ]
The Research & Scholarly Publishing Forum lineup has been confirmed for the London Book Fair at Olympia London, UK on Thursday 20 April.
Sessions will cover hot topics, such as how the widespread adoption of preprints is transforming science communication; diversity and inclusion [ read more ]