Editorial

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.

Bentham Science Publishers, a leading medical and technical academic publisher (www.benthamscience.com), is thrilled to announce a significant journal portfolio development. This year, an unprecedented 25 new journals have been added to the Bentham list of titles with Clarivate Journal Impact Factors, bringing the total to 66.

Clarivate, a global leader in connecting people and organizations to intelligence they can trust to transform their world, today released the 2023 update to its annual Journal Citation Reports™ (JCR)™. This annual release identifies more than 21,500 high-quality academic journals from across 250+ scientific and research disciplines.

he American Chemical Society (ACS) is pleased to announce that Mohammed Yahia will assume the editor-in-chief role of its weekly news magazine, Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN). Yahia will replace Interim Editor Michael McCoy.

The Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2023 report co-published by open access publisher Frontiers and the World Economic Forum has been presented today. The report identifies those technologies poised to have the biggest positive impact on society over the next three to five years.

]u[ Ubiquity are pleased to announce the official launch of four new ]u[ Ubiquity Repositories; The Paul Smith's College Libraries Institutional Repository, Hobart and William Smith Repository for Institutional Scholarship Exploration (RISE), The Nazareth University Repository, and Le Moyne College's Research Repository.