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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…

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…

Every year, Open Access Week reminds us of a simple but transformative idea: knowledge should be shared freely to accelerate discovery and innovation. Open science the practice of…

From early cases of falsified reviewer emails in 2012 to the mass retractions at BioMed Central, Springer, Hindawi, and Wiley, the timeline reveals how fake peer reviews and paper…

Executive Summary: Artificial intelligence is rapidly entering the conversation, offering tools for everything, from tone editing to triage and stirring intense debate about its…

The peer review process is a unique testing ground for AI integration. AI can assist peer review by triaging submissions, detecting manipulations, and supporting reviewers with…

Peer review has undergone significant transformation over the past few decades, driven largely by digital and technological innovations. Once a slow, paper-based process conducted…

As we are a step closer to the Peer Review Week 2025 (PRW 2025), taking place from September 15–19, 2025, it's high time to pause, reflect, and invite the global scholarly…

AI is no longer knocking at the door of academic publishing. It’s already inside, reorganizing our systems, decisions, and even ethics. While AI offers unprecedented opportunities…

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming the landscape of academic publishing—but are our ethical policies, guidelines, and practices keeping pace? To assess the…

In 2002, only 1 in 5,000 papers were retracted, but by 2023 that number had risen to 1 in 500, according to Ivan Oransky, co-founder of Retraction Watch. “Statistically speaking,…

With the rise of Generative AI (GenAI) tools, researchers now have access to assistants that can refine text, rephrase sentences, and even suggest new ideas. But what happens when…