(4 Feb 2026) You’d have to have a laser focus elsewhere not to notice the growing concern about research integrity. In recent months there have been many reports, conference sessions and webinars all looking at the risks institutions and researchers face when research is of uncertain quality or dubious provenance. Librarians are at the forefront…
(2 Feb 2026) A cloud-computing architect at German telecommunications company Deutsche Telekom, who is based in Raeren, Belgium, created Aletheia-Probe while he was helping his colleagues to write a review paper on energy management. He needed to evaluate more than 350 papers. “I will not do this manually,” he recalls thinking. Like any good software…
(27 Jan 2026) Over the past decade, Hindawi expanded rapidly from a small open access (OA) publisher into a large, multi-journal operation publishing tens of thousands of articles annually. This period of growth coincided with an increase in submissions later linked to paper mills. By 2023–2024, public reporting documented that more than 8,000 articles across a…
(23 Jan 2026) The popular arXiv preprint server, which holds nearly 3 million manuscripts, mainly in computing science, physics, and math, has put up a new hurdle for first-time submitters. Until now, someone wanting to submit to arXiv for the first time only needed an email address affiliated with a reputable academic or research institution,…
(27 Jan 2026) The International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers’ (STM) Alt Text Task & Finish Group has released a draft image-type taxonomy for scholarly images and opened the document for public feedback. The draft taxonomy was developed through collaboration among STM members to support accessible publishing and to assist authors and publishers in writing…
(18 Dec 2025) Cambridge University Press has launched a new grant to support under-represented early career scholars from diverse backgrounds and geographic locations, including first generation scholars. The Cambridge Amplify Grant aims to help recipients to develop their first book manuscripts and provide developmental support from Cambridge’s books editorial team. The inaugural grant will enable the…
(6 Jan 2026) This post by Hong Zhou and Hiba Bishtawi analyzes shifts in research discovery from traditional keyword searches to AI-driven tools. It argues keywords remain vital for precision while AI excels in synthesis, based on testing of four ai discovery tools. “The broader implication is that we are not moving from keywords…
Thousands of mistakenly awarded citations left uncorrected highlight the perils of leaving profile curation to academics, say critics (17 Dec 2025) Further concerns have been raised over the reliability of Google Scholar after academics were mistakenly awarded thousands of citations that saw them top leaderboards for their discipline. While research sleuths have repeatedly highlighted how academics…
(26 Nov 2025) In line with China’s emphasis on research integrity, the Ministry of Science and Technology and relevant departments have launched a special campaign to crack down on misconduct in academic papers, according to an announcement issued Wednesday on the ministry’s official WeChat account. The campaign primarily targets retracted papers published by Chinese scholars…
(10 Dec 2025) At most scientific publications, papers co-authored by artificial intelligence (AI) are not welcome. At a new open platform called aiXiv, they are embraced. The platform goes all in on AI: It accepts both AI- and human-authored work, uses built-in AI reviewers for baseline quality screening, and guides authors through revisions based on the chatbots’…