With the open science movement growing in popularity in the last decade, preprints have become a bigger and bigger part of the publishing industry. They’ve also, in some ways, become a bigger and bigger problem for the publishing industry as well. ISMTE’s recent...
COVID-19 has changed many aspects of the publishing industry and caused numerous issues and disruptions to arise in the last year. One of the biggest issues has been mounting delays in the peer review and publishing process. With many authors and researchers...
With the push toward increased transparency and open access continuing to grow in the scholarly publishing industry, the issue of open peer review is gaining more and more traction. That’s not to say that open peer review is a new concept. Open peer review has been...
Each year, Altmetric, the organization that tracks the online attention published research receives, compiles the Altmetric Top 100, a list of the most-discussed scholarly contributions of the year. Analysis of the Altmetric Top 100 can provide insight into the sizes...
Thoughtful, constructive, and on-time reviews make an editor’s job much easier. However, as journal staff can attest, reviews can often be brief, off topic, and late. While much of the burden is on reviewers to provide quality feedback on submissions, there are steps...
