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AI did not just get better at helping researchers write. It started doing the research. The distinction publishing must now defend is not how much AI was involved, but who is accountable for the result, and whether anyone can actually check…
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The Next Integrity Crisis Will Be Ambiguity in Chain of Custody (or Provenance), Not Fraud
Every system the scholarly publishing industry has built in the last three years to fight AI misuse shares one assumption: that the thing worth catching is deception. The STM Integrity Hub screens for tortured phrases, duplicate…
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The Responsible Use of AI Survey is Back — and We Want to Hear From You Again
When we ran our first survey on the responsible use of AI in research and publishing, the headline numbers were hard to ignore. AI use was already near-universal; 97% of responses confirmed it was embedded in day-to-day research workflows.…
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97% Have Embraced AI. 99% Question It. Enago’s Global Survey Report Reveals Why.
AI is no longer an emerging tool in academic research, it's the default. Our latest survey of 457 researchers, editors, reviewers, and policymakers across disciplines and regions found that AI use has scaled almost universally. What hasn't…
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Verify or Perish, Not Publish or Perish! Trustworthiness is the New Scholarly Currency.
For the better part of a century, we have measured scholars by how much they publish. Generative AI has made publishing cheap, and in doing so it has quietly emptied the count of its meaning. The measure of merit now is not how many papers…
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Building Trust Amid Change: Lessons from scholarly publishing in 2025
Every few years, scholarly publishing experiences a moment that quietly but decisively reshapes its future. 2025 marked an onset to that moment, marked by through a series of developments that collectively forced the publishing ecosystem to…
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The Retraction Crisis: Is peer review failing?
From early cases of falsified reviewer emails in 2012 to the mass retractions at BioMed Central, Springer, Hindawi, and Wiley, the timeline reveals how fake peer reviews and paper mill activities have escalated, with over 8,000 papers…
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From Confusion to Coalition: Why publishers must join the responsible AI movement
AI is no longer knocking at the door of academic publishing. It’s already inside, reorganizing our systems, decisions, and even ethics. While AI offers unprecedented opportunities for efficiency and innovation, its unchecked and fragmented…
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Better Safe Than Retracted: The role of pre-submission review in upholding research integrity
The scientific community is grappling with growing concerns around research misconduct, reproducibility crisis, and increasing public skepticism. High-profile retractions, data manipulation scandals, and the rise of paper mills have further…
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Decoding Authorship in Academic Publishing: Guidelines, gray areas, and best practices
Excitement brewed at Dr. Joshi’s biomedical lab as the lab team—Omar (Postdoc), Riya (PhD student), and Jane (Research Assistant) gathered in the tiny meeting room to submit their manuscript. But before finalizing the submission, a pressing…
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