Editorial

Paper outlines roles for every part of the research landscape to help improve trust in research – including journalists. Who’s responsible for upholding research integrity, mitigating misinformation or disinformation and increasing trust in research? Everyone – even those reporting on research – says a new article published by leading research integrity experts.

Patients, policymakers, caregivers and primary care physicians can now keep up to date with the latest medical articles through clear, jargon-free summaries. Launched by Taylor & Francis, Plain Language Summaries of Publications (PLSPs) are peer reviewed, open access articles written for non-specialist readers, so everyone can benefit from new research findings.

Wolters Kluwer Health today announced strong results for the Lippincott portfolio of journals in the 2022 Journal Impact Factor (JIF), the journal metric released annually by Clarivate Analytics as part of the Journal Citation Reports(JCR).

The Research4Life partners announced today that they have agreed to extend their partnership through 2030. The partners have also decided to formally recognize the role of Chief Operations Officer being carried out by Kimberly Parker, an early contributor to  Research4Life who has worn many hats, and has been with the World Health Organization as the programme manager for Hinari since 2008.

eLife and PREreview are pleased to announce that the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) will provide them with technical and funding support to implement the COAR Notify technology. With this support, the organisations will work to connect separate services within the ‘publish, review, curate’ ecosystem.

The Open Access publisher PeerJ has announced their first Editor-in-Chief partnership in the Open Advances series.  Professors Lesley Rogers and Michael Wink will jointly steer the development and forthcoming launch of the new title, PeerJ Open Advances in Zoology journal.

NIH and other funding agencies, however, are putting the kibosh on the approach. On 23 June, NIH banned the use of online generative AI tools like ChatGPT “for analyzing and formulating peer-review critiques”—likely spurred in part by a letter from Siegle, who is at the University of Pittsburgh, and colleagues.

IEEE, the world’s largest technical professional organization advancing technology for humanity, announced today that its journals once again dominated the citation rankings across multiple technology fields.

IOP Publishing’s (IOPP) new environmental research journals are now open for submissions. Announced earlier this year, the two new open access (OA) journals: Environmental Research: Energy and Environmental Research: Food Systems are the latest additions to IOPP’s expanding Environmental Research Series which now includes eight open access titles.

The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) has outsourced production of its award-winning global media brand E&T to content and publishing agency Redactive.

The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) is pleased to announce the publication of the Peer Review Terminology Standard (ANSI/NISO Z39.106-2023), which will support open research by simplifying the communication of peer review roles and practices and fostering greater transparency in the peer review process.

IOP Publishing, a leading society owned scientific publisher, is announcing significant changes to its esteemed journal, Reports on Progress in Physics™. The move will modernise the title and position it at the pinnacle of the publisher’s extensive physics portfolio.