A new preprint, “Academic Publishing in Occupied Territories: Challenges to Research Integrity and Academic Trust,” uncovers the complex legal and ethical challenges surrounding the unlawful appropriation of Ukraine-born academic journals by the occupation authorities of the Russian Federation.
By applying bibliometric methods, the study examines visibility and impact of these journals.
Not long now until #UKSG2026 in Glasgow.
The EMS Press team will be at Stand #62, and we’re looking forward to meeting colleagues from across scholarly communication.
We’ll also have some news to share during the conference, so stay tuned. ✨
📢 IMC 2026 Cycle 1 Results
Out of 106 submissions:
✅ 11 papers accepted
🔄 12 papers invited for one-shot revision
Additionally:
✅ 12 one-shot revision papers from IMC 2025 Cycle 2 accepted
Congratulations to all accepted authors and thank you to everyone who submitted!
"So if AI detection becomes impossible, we will have to assume humanity just to operate normally. As I mentioned, this is serving me relatively well in editing and marking, I will assume that if something has someone’s name or signature, they wrote it, and they should assume all of the consequences of that text.
For the same reason, I don’t think that any sort of legislative solution will work. The technology is too far ahead to expect any sort of ban. We could probably try to enact legislation that sets the obligation for LLM developers to clearly identify when an AI has been used to generate text, but this would only open the door for models that have been trained in countries without such restrictions to become popular. And then there will probably be AI humanisers that will get rid of such identifiers.
A solution that appears to be emerging in many writing circles is to loudly attack anyone who is using AI text, and to try to gather consensus in the writing professions to loudly oppose any sort of AI use. Writers are now at the stage in which artists were back in 2022, AI is just about to get good enough as to threaten people’s jobs. So there is a bit of a siege mentality emerging, where the first instict will be to punish and ostracise anyone who breaks this code. I’m highly skeptical of this approach as it is likely to lead to witch-hunts, false accusations, purity spirals, and other nasty online behaviour that is not likely to fix the problem.
Eventually, I think that we will find some balance."
https://www.technollama.co.uk/why-are-people-adopting-ai-to-write
The new T&F guidelines for editors when accepting paper submissions.
#humor #funny #ai #fakepapers #academia #academicchatter #academicpublishing
RE: https://ecoevo.social/@PeerCommunityIn/116261952869789585
Had to pleasure to attend yesterday, an hour well spent!
Springer Nature expands use of AI across publishing workflows - Research Information https://www.researchinformation.info/news/springer-nature-expands-use-of-ai-across-publishing-workflows/
Just received an email asking me to peer-review a paper, and asking me to decide whether to review it based on an abstract in which every piece of LaTeX code has been replaced with ‘[[EQUATION]]’, so that it reads like:
‘For [[EQUATION]], let [[EQUATION]] be the semigroup of partial bijections on the lattice [[EQUATION]]. For a subset [[EQUATION]] of [[EQUATION]] with size at most [[EQUATION]], we show that [[EQUATION]] and [[EQUATION]] are the unique possible...’
I am not quoting the actual text, but this gives the idea. The email was generated by the publisher's paper management system, so I assume it is to blame, not the editor.
Over the years, I have developed fairly low expectations of academic publishers, but this particular bit of incompetence is new to me.
Been busy academic article writing and publishing.
1. got a paper published (more later), after a bit of a struggle, but very worth it.
2. after 3 month wait heard about a draft paper submission to a new local journal initiative that had decided they werent doing journal after all and sorry we didnt tell you. (disappointing!).
3. got a citation from what looks like a GenAI created paper.
1 out of 3 aint bad.
Our COO, Nina Tscheke, and Global Business Development Director, Stuart Cooper, had a great time in London meeting colleagues from across the scholarly publishing and research community.
Thanks to everyone who met with us at #LBF26.
#LondonBookFair #AcademicPublishing
Nataliia Kaliuzhna
EMS Press
Internet Measurement Conf.
Miguel Afonso Caetano
Dr Pen
Patrick Fournier
Paul R. Pival (he/him)
Alan J. Cain
ScienceOpen