Why Retractions Don’t Reach the Papers That Cite Them
152 retractions issued in June 2025 for scientifically serious reasons. Three in ten of those ever cited picked up new citations after retraction: 204 in all, at a median of 148…
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It Was Never About How Capable AI Is. It’s About Who’s Accountable.
AI did not just get better at helping researchers write. It started doing the research. The distinction publishing must now defend is not how much AI was involved, but who is…
The Next Integrity Crisis Will Be Ambiguity in Chain of Custody (or Provenance), Not Fraud
Every system the scholarly publishing industry has built in the last three years to fight AI misuse shares one assumption: that the thing worth catching is deception. The STM…
Verify or Perish, Not Publish or Perish! Trustworthiness is the New Scholarly Currency.
For the better part of a century, we have measured scholars by how much they publish. Generative AI has made publishing cheap, and in doing so it has quietly emptied the count of…
AI Closes the Writing Gap. Publication Readiness Is a Human Skill.
The editors who get manuscripts published have sat where your reviewers sit.
AI has made research writing faster. It has not made it publishable. The gap between a well-drafted…
Authorship and Accountability: Why research leaders must rethink the rules of credit
In academic publishing, authorship is far more than a name on a paper, it is a statement of intellectual contribution, accountability, and ownership. For decades, the scholarly…
Knowledge Ownership and Global Equity: Redefining openness in science
Introduction
This Open Access Week 2025 we were confronted by a critical question: "Who Owns Our Knowledge?" This year's theme invited us to reflect on what true openness really…
Can AI Make Peer Review More Equitable?
Just like good research, good peer review must be very robust. I take my responsibilities as a researcher very seriously, and whenever I have the opportunity to conduct a peer…
The Evolution of AI Literacy: From Technical Skill to Ethical Imperative
In 1950, Scientist Alan Turing asked a prophetic question in his landmark paper, “Computing Machinery and Intelligence”: He asked, “Can machines think?” He then proposed a thought…
Rethinking Statistical Rigor in the Age of AI-Powered Peer Review
Executive Summary
AI is reshaping peer review, particularly in statistical evaluation. Beyond text generation, AI can check consistency, rerun analyses, and flag questionable…
Research Reporting Guidelines: Evolution, Impact on Scientific Publishing and Future Developments
Introduction
In the early 1980s and throughout that decade, the evidence-based medicine (EBM) movement appeared and gained momentum. Largely the brainchild of Canadian physician…
Toward Science-Led Publishing: How realigning publishing could advance science
The following is a summary of Toward Science-Led Publishing by Damian Pattinson and George Currie.
The way we communicate and evaluate research today is largely dependent on a…