For example, reviewer invitations sent by journals via ScholarOne rose from 9M in 2018 to nearly 21.5M in 2025 (some caveats around that stat in the report). Despite working in academic publishing for years and understanding the scale, I still find the size of numbers like this staggering.
The ScholarOne Future of Peer Review 2026 report is out. I'm one of the interviewees, which gives me a vested interest in flagging it, but it does contain some interesting data. www.silverchair.com/news/future-...
Small rant. What on earth has happened to #ChatGPT? Conversation with 9 straightforward questions, 8 incorrect & 1 partially correct answer. 7 links to supposedly verified sources (after problems in the previous round of conversation) - all hallucinated. Every conversation I have seems problematic ☹️
🚨 New issue of PubTech Radar is out: lnkd.in/eaCsVfja
New issue of PubTech Radar: pubtechradar.substack.com/p/pubtech-ra.... Fabricated citations, the AI detection delusion, 35 novels about research integrity, and more...
Love this demo of Crixet (now Prism). For all the talk of robotic labs and AI accelerating science, the reality is Victor Powell, the developer, in his kitchen, minding the baby (the high-value work), while talking to an AI tool to handle the writing: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ce-S...
Please fill out my AI usage survey if you work in publishing.
Which models are you using? How often? What's delivering value? Takes under 5 minutes. Contributors get early access to results before I share them more widely towards the end of the month: ai-and-me.innovationideas.co.uk
Worth spending time with this article from Scott Cunningham:
Summary and my thoughts here: substack.com/@pubtechrada...
Original article here:
substack.com/home/post/p-...
I’m working on a small, experimental tool that creates narrative, multi-signal overviews for scholarly books (citations, usage, attention).
Looking for a few (university) presses (and others) to test an MVP and give candid feedback.
Open data. No black boxes. DM me.
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British Library staff asked for a decent pay. Instead they got ‘a few money-saving present ideas’, such as ‘consider not giving presents this holiday season’. They are on strike this week. I wrote about it for @lrb.co.uk. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...
