Use of AI is now outpacing disclosure in manuscript preparation for major scholarly publications. This is a fact that publishers and journals must come to grips with and take steps to address to manage accountability from authors. As new technologies and tools...
When most people hear the word “article” in the context of a scientific or medical journal, they are thinking about original research articles—that is, articles that report on experiments resulting in both novel and scientifically relevant information. But this is far...
In the first installment of this two-part series, we discussed why video abstracts are becoming a popular route for scholarly article authors to take, as a way to increase both quality and visibility for their submissions. Video abstracts can provide a brief but clear...
Recent statistics have shown that watching online video is literally like a part-time job; the average person does it for 17 hours each week. And more than half of those folks—51 percent, to be exact—are more likely to share video with friends than other types of...
As we enter the fifth month of 2026, now feels like a good time to consider what we can expect to see in scholarly publishing throughout the remainder of the year. To begin making predictions for a new year, it is always helpful to take a minute and reflect on...
In the past, scientific publishing moved at the pace of glaciers—deliberate, weighty, and often frustratingly slow. And there was good reason for this. Peer review is an important part of scientific publishing that is necessary to weed out research that is not...
