Think back, if you can, 25 years ago to January 2001, and what do you remember? To jog your memory, that month saw the inauguration of George W. Bush as U.S. President, the launch of iTunes from Apple, and the appointment of the England football team’s first foreign manager, Sven-Göran Eriksson.   While you sit there thinking how old you feel, this will make you feel even worse: it was also…

Breaching research integrity is often regarded as, at worst, a white-collar crime reserved for nerdy types who couldn’t quite cut it intellectually; at best, it’s not even regarded at all – it is simply invisible to most people as they go about their lives. However, this may be about to change with the release of a new documentary that may bring the problem home to many people.  

Are mainstream journals publishing research with a greater focus on impact? Based on recently published research on top-ranked business journals, the answer is a cautious 'yes.' Below is a summary of an article co-authored by, among others, Cabells’ Simon Linacre and the new Head of PRME, Dr. David Steingard. From "Revolutionizing societal impact in business school research: can the FT50 lead the change?", published in Emerald Publishing’s…

Open access publishing has led to researchers paying thousands of dollars to publish their work, limiting funds for research and leaving scientists with hard choices.

The first of SSP’s new polling initiative, Pulse Check, explores AI in scholarly publishing and set out to understand how our communities are navigating this monumental shift.

A Happy New Year to everyone, and if you can’t quite believe it is January already, then recent news on the impact of AI on scholarly communications is not going to help with that feeling of things not being quite real. Towards the end of 2025, reports started to emerge of 'imaginary journals.' We have become used to hearing that a major problem with generative AI is that it can hallucinate things and present them as factual, but going to the extent of creating fantasy journals and citations surprised many.

Considering the needs of smaller publishers will yield more efficacious solutions and implementation at every scale, writes Danielle Padula

The University Libraries will enter into new open-access publishing agreements with two major scientific publishers starting in 2026 to make Penn State peer-reviewed research published through…

Each December, as schedules slow and the days grow shorter, our team at Cabells turns to our favorite end-of-year tradition: reflecting on the books that moved us, challenged us, or simply gave us an excuse to unplug for a while. Our list below, diverse in genre, style, and voice, captures not just what we read in 2025, but how we experienced the world through fiction, memoir, and sharp-eyed nonfiction.

If there is a common thread to any article or commentary on the state of research integrity and publishing ethics among the global scholarly community, it is usually that there is a need for more education. If only PhD students had better teaching on research integrity issues, and early career scholars more formal instruction on publishing norms, then we would not have the slew of integrity issues we seem to be facing.

China’s rise in research output and influence has coincided with the U.S. government’s increased focus on research security over the past several years, according to a new report.

I once attended a financial crime research conference and, at the gala dinner, found myself sitting next to the lead investigator in cybercrime from Nigeria. It was fascinating to hear some of the stories he had to share, including instances of tracking down the people who sent those seemingly now extinct emails purporting to be from some African prince who wanted to put $15 million in your account temporarily while they sorted some issues out.

Explore the impact of UN SDGs on global policy a decade after adoption, highlighting successes and challenges in research and implementation.

Explore the impact of UN SDGs on global policy a decade after adoption, highlighting successes and challenges in research and implementation.

Have the interests of commercial publishers now become antithetical to the pursuit of knowledge?

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This week is COPE's Publication Integrity Week 2025, with five days of online events and activities to highlight issues around publishing integrity. It is COPE’s (the Committee on Publication Ethics) attempt to ensure it addresses current concerns in the scholarly communications community, and each day focuses on a different theme. This year, COPE has identified issues such as DEIA, institutional responsibility, and technological change as just some of the issues to focus on.

I was fortunate to attend the annual Charleston Conference last week, and in addition to the lovely weather and beautiful surroundings of South Carolina in early November, I was able to enjoy a vibrant and serious-minded event against a backdrop of unprecedented challenges. While there was an overall mood of deep concern for librarianship, there was also a resolve to meet the many and varied challenges head-on.

For those of us who have been in scholarly communications for a number of years, one of the most noticeable shifts in the industry has been the use of language and how it has morphed from being almost historical in nature to being at the cutting edge of the ‘tech bro’ vernacular. These days in publishing houses – itself a joyously arcane term these days – one cannot move for agile scrum masters and prompt engineers swarming round their kanban boards.

If journals reject papers due to review shortages, the peer review process itself becomes compromised.