Publishing with Integrity

A Scopus extract (6 July 2026) identified authors who had published more than one article every day in 2026. That raises an obvious question, how can anyone publish at that rate? This edition looks beyond the headline numbers and asks what publication counts really tell ...

Researchers write papers, review manuscripts, edit journals and contribute their expertise. This is largely done for free. But what if that unpaid work is now helping to build commercial AI systems? This edition asks whether researchers are inadvertently becoming an unpaid workforce for the AI ...

Peer review is one of the foundations of scholarly publishing. Every year, researchers contribute millions of hours reviewing manuscripts, usually without payment and often with little recognition. As publishing evolves, including the increasing use of AI, a question emerges: who owns those review reports, and ...

Open access was intended to remove barriers to knowledge by making research freely available to readers. Yet as article processing charges continue to rise, an uncomfortable question emerges: have we simply moved the paywall from one side of scholarly publishing to the other? This edition ...

Plagiarism detection software was developed to help identify copied work and protect academic integrity. Yet the same tools can now be used to modify text until it falls below an acceptable similarity threshold. Have plagiarism detectors now become plagiarism enablers? This edition explores an uncomfortable ...

A Google Scholar profile recently increased its h-index by 95 points in a single month while also accumulating almost half a million additional citations. Whether this particular case represents manipulation, a technical anomaly, or something else, it raises concerns about one of academia's most widely ...