(3 Jun 2026) China is no longer simply a major contributor to global research output; it is increasingly becoming a key force shaping the future of scholarly publishing. With extraordinary scale in article production, rapidly improving quality metrics, and extensive collaboration networks, China is moving from being primarily a submissions market to a potential center of gravity for global…
(27 May 2026) China’s academic world has been thrown into turmoil after a former doctoral student launched a series of high-profile allegations accusing some of the country’s most prominent scholars of suspected research misconduct and data manipulation. The whistleblower, known online as “Geng Tongxue” (“Student Geng”), has rapidly become one of the most closely-watched figures on Chinese…
(18 May 2026) arXiv has warned that authors who submit work containing clear evidence of unchecked large language model (LLM) output could face a one-year submission ban. The comments were made by Thomas Dietterich, current chair of the Computer Science Section of arXiv, in a series of posts on X – where he outlined the…
(6 May 2026) The session at Charleston Asia delivered by Dr. Chetan Sudhakar Sonowane on the topic titled “Assessing impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) based tools on library services and scholarly publishing” tried to cover the potential of AI based tools and its application in libraries. Its usefulness in the library is being explored. AI tools…
(16 Apr 2026) According to a new study from the Université de Montréal, the English language’s share of academic output in scholarly publishing fell from 94 per cent to 85 per cent between 1990 and 2023. Researchers analysed 88 million articles and 1.48 billion cited references using the OpenAlex and Dimensions databases. The findings, published…
(24 Apr 2026) Researchers have amassed a data set of thousands of advertisements selling research-paper authorships online, shedding light on the global marketplace for academic fraud. The collection — the largest of its kind — contains more than 18,700 adverts that were posted between March 2020 and early April 2026 by seven paper mills — businesses that produce fake…
(13 Apr 2026) Frontiers released unique-in-publishing AI guidance covering the entire publication lifecycle – from researchers to editors and peer reviewers – moving beyond simplistic “allowed / not allowed” rules toward practical, responsible routes for AI adoption, while calling for policy to evolve in step with real-world AI use by researchers and reviewers. The guidance responds…
(17 Feb 2026) Each year, I make a point of reading tech-trend reports outside our lane. Scholarly publishing and education have their own constraints, but technology waves rarely start here. They break first in industries that live and die by speed, automation, and customer experience — finance, commerce, and marketing. When those sectors begin redesigning for…
(5 Feb 2026) In debates around scholarly publishing university publishers are often a secondary consideration after big commercial publishers. Drawing on a new study of the size and scope of university publishing Maryna Nazarovets, Mikael Laakso and Zehra Taşkın argue universities are in fact not marginal actors but a widespread and structurally significant part of the journal publishing landscape, whose…
(19 Dec 2025) This selection of resources helps editors and publishers of Diamond open access (OA) journals to understand and address the challenges of working with generative artificial intelligence (AI) in scholarly publishing. The Resource includes guides, online courses, blogs, videos and webinars on the following key topics: Introduction to Generative AI in Publishing Research…