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Clarivate announces the appointment of Jonathan Gear as New CEO 

Clarivate Plc (NYSE:CLVT), a global leader in providing trusted information and insights to accelerate the pace of innovation, today announced that Jerre Stead, Executive Chair and Chief Executive Officer, is retiring from his CEO role effective September 1, 2022, but will continue as Non-Executive Chair of the Board of Directors. During Mr. Stead’s tenure as Clarivate CEO, the company has nearly tripled in size both in revenue and colleague population, delivered strong cash flow, completed multiple strategic acquisitions, and aligned into a customer- and colleague-centric enterprise.

With this transition, the board of directors has selected Jonathan Gear to succeed Mr. Stead. Mr. Gear is joining Clarivate as CEO-elect and a member of the board of directors on July 11, 2022. Mr. Gear will become Chief Executive Officer on September 1, 2022, at which time Mr. Stead will become Non-Executive Chair.

Mr. Gear brings 23 years of executive leadership experience in technology, data and information services companies, most recently as Chief Financial Officer of IHS Markit, where he helped guide the company through its successful merger with S&P Global. While at IHS Markit, Mr. Gear also served as President of the Energy, Transportation and CMS business segments, leading the P&Ls for approximately $2.6 billion in revenue. Mr. Gear holds a BA in Political Economics from the University of California-Berkeley and an MBA from Stanford University.

Mr. Stead said: “It has been my great honor to lead Clarivate as CEO over the past three years. With a solid strategic plan in place and the acceleration of growth being driven by an amazing team of colleagues around the world, I feel we are well-positioned for the future. I am looking forward to spending more time with Mary Joy, my wife and partner for over 60 years, our wonderful family, and working together to support Clarivate as well as our many charitable and community relationships across the globe.

“I have had the pleasure of working with Jonathan Gear for over 15 years and believe his experience coupled with his leadership capabilities are a perfect match for Clarivate,” Mr. Stead added. “He brings a deep understanding of our markets, our business model and the opportunities we have. I look forward to working with Jonathan as we continue our pursuit of excellence at Clarivate.”

Mr. Gear said: “This is a very exciting time to join Clarivate and become the company’s next CEO. We will continue our efforts to make Clarivate one of the best companies in the world and a valued partner for the customers we serve.”

Anthony Munk, Lead Independent Director for Clarivate, said: “Jerre Stead is such a remarkable leader and accomplished CEO, we feel great about the progress he’s driven across the company, most notably through the One Clarivate business model and building a leadership team prepared to partner with and deliver for customers, colleagues and shareowners around the world. We are particularly pleased that we have been able to bring a high-caliber executive such as Jonathan Gear to Clarivate as our next CEO as he leads the company into an exciting future.”

scite partners with Springer Nature for a six-month pilot 

scite, an award-winning tool that helps students and researchers discover and understand research findings more efficiently through Smart Citations, has partnered with global academic publisher Springer Nature to be listed in the Springer Nature Research Solutions hub for a six-month pilot.

Working together, the pilot between scite and Springer Nature will offer researchers individual licenses to help improve their research with Smart Citations. Smart Citations allow researchers to see how and why research has been cited by displaying the citation context — the in-text sentences where references are used — the section the citation context is from, and a classification indicating whether it supports, mentions, or contrasts the cited claims. Additionally, scite offers a unique search engine that allows users to search over 1 billion Smart Citations so that researchers can see how any topic, reagent, or finding has been discussed in the literature.

To date, scite has partnered with over two dozen major publishers. Smart Citations are displayed on roughly 3M articles from publishers like Wiley, The Royal Society, and The National Academy of Science. Additionally, scite is used by hundreds of universities and has over 100,000 users worldwide.

Josh Nicholson, co-founder, and CEO of scite says, “We’re excited to launch this six-month pilot with Springer Nature to more effectively bring what we’ve built at scite to the research community. Springer Nature is a leader with great reach around the world. Together, I think we can really improve how research is done.”

Springer Nature added, “We are committed to exploring a range of balanced and fair metrics across our portfolios so that authors, researchers, librarians, and consumers are able to evaluate the standing of our journals, articles and books and demonstrate the value they offer. Partnering with scite for this pilot, is another way of doing this by not only looking at how many times a paper is cited, but by helping inform a clearer understanding of why it is being cited and by whom.”

ConTech.Live releases ConTech 2021 recordings today

27 of some of the best industry speakers across 15 sessions are all now available to view 

Last November ConTech 2021 successfully focused on the intersection of content, technology and chaos. The conference delivered thought leadership, practical tools, case studies and stories of successful transformation. All these sessions are available and can be viewed on the ConTech.Live website.

Watch the sessions and get a feel for what the ConTech community already hail as a must attend conference then join the ConTech community and start to unlock the secrets of transformation from chaos to clarity at this year’s event.

ConTech 2022 will be a hybrid event on the 29th & 30th November with the physical event taking place once again at The Marriott Regent’s Park, London UK

ConTech 2022 will look at Culture, Product, Content and Data, and the ‘from’ to ‘too’ journey that they all take. It is time to ask questions, whether the answer is what is wanted or not, whether it is thought to be ignorant or not, to an ‘expert’ or to a ‘hidden hero’.  ConTech creates a platform for all those discussions and insights to take place. Look out for the ConTech 2022 programme coming soon

Delegates are already signing up to attend this event, they realise the importance it has to the industry so why not join them and see for yourself or continue that journey with the ConTech community. Early bird rates are currently available here Find out more about all of our events  Contech.live

Elsevier launches global initiative to assess the impact of the pandemic on confidence in scientific research

Elsevier, a global leader in research publishing and information analytics, has today announced the launch of a global collaboration that will include new, independent research led by Economist Impact. The initiative aims to assess the drivers of confidence in research, examine how researchers have experienced the increased public attention on science during the pandemic, and the implications this has had on the academic research community. It is also looking at changes in the ways in which researchers communicate their findings.

A main focus of the initiative will be a landmark global survey conducted by Economist Impact, experts in helping to identify critical and actionable insights,of 3,000 researchers across Europe, North America, Latin America, Middle East, Africa, and Asia.

The insights will be published in a free report in Autumn 2022, and be used to create a set of actionable commitments and recommendations that will support researchers in their efforts to advance knowledge that benefits society.

The initiative sees Elsevier partner with Sense about Science, which has pioneered wider engagement on the reliability of research internationally, to bring together world-renowned experts to advise and inform the collaboration via a Global Advisory Board tasked with shaping the primary research, and a Global Expert Panel that will drive the co-creation of actionable insights and recommendations to benefit the research community.

Elsevier is also working in partnership with leading science and research organisations in six regions:

  • Chinese Association for Science of Science and Science & Technology Policy (China)
  • Körber Stiftung (Germany)
  • Japanese Association for the Advancement of Science (Japan)
  • Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen – Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities(Netherlands)
  • Sense about Science (UK & global)
  • Research!America (US)

These organisations will bring unique perspectives from their respective countries, and co-host roundtables with Elsevier to explore the findings and discuss potential recommendations the collaboration will put forward.

Anne Kitson, Senior Vice President and Managing Director of Cell Press and The Lancet, Elsevier said: “Ensuring quality research can accelerate progress for society is at the heart of what Elsevier does. Science is making extraordinary advances at an accelerated pace, but amid this change lie new challenges for researchers. We’re privileged to partner with and bring together some of the world’s leading experts to consider these challenges, and work towards recommendations that we hope will help researchers to navigate this fast-evolving scientific landscape.”

Tracey Brown, Director, Sense about Science, said: “This work builds on our long-standing collaboration with Elsevier to support initiatives that improve understanding of research quality and accessible findings. If researchers have questions about the reliability of research on which to build, then these are also questions for the public and how we more broadly place confidence in findings. We are looking to this initiative to provide more of an evidence base on which initiatives can be developed and benchmarked.”

Jonathan Birdwell, Regional Head of Policy Research & Insights for EMEA, Economist Impact said: “2020 was a landmark year for scientific research. The development of Covid-19 vaccines marked an extraordinary achievement for science and global scientific cooperation. The pandemic turned previously unknown researchers into household names, with politicians, business leaders and the general public more invested than ever before in the outcomes of the scientific process. But the pandemic also appears to have accelerated a number of longer-term trends affecting the research community, including the speed and volume of research published and the role of social media. What impact has the pandemic had on how researchers produce and communicate their research? How do researchers’ experiences differ by geography, gender identity and career stage? What types of tools and resources do researchers need to produce and communicate research effectively? Our research hopes to answer these questions and identify solutions that could help researchers navigate this changing landscape with confidence.”

The collaboration comes as Elsevier’s Research Futures report reveals that the most cited ‘red flags’ for researchers to engage with and trust research was the source of data being unclear (60%), the journal being of low quality (57%) and the research not being peer reviewed (55%). The report, which surveyed over 1,000 researchers globally, also found that the most stated challenges to effective communication of research were pressure to publish to advance your career (63%), the sheer volume of articles being published (51%), and the growing emphasis on demonstrating novelty in research (47%). Researchers also reported an increase in their use of sharing sites, academic community platforms, and publisher websites.

Open access model embraced by more next generation faculty in U.S. higher education, triennial survey says

Interest in open access is on the rise for American higher education faculty aged 22 to 44, while the journal’s Impact Factor continues to diminish in importance for most faculty, according to results announced today from Ithaka S+R’s U.S. Faculty Survey 2021, aided by sponsorship from academic publisher Taylor & Francis.

“Taylor & Francis is very excited to collaborate with Ithaka S+R as a corporate sponsor for its premier triennial U.S. Faculty Survey,” said Todd Hummel, Global Publishing Director, Earth, Life, and Medical Science, Taylor & Francis. “As a trusted partner to knowledge makers throughout their career, supporting this comprehensive, leading-edge analysis aligns with our mission and provides further insights about attitudes, behaviors, preferences, and practices in the scholarly community to help us continually serve the needs of our customers.”

Roger Schonfeld, Vice President of Organizational Strategy and Libraries, Scholarly Communication, and Museums, Ithaka S+R, said: “We are grateful for Taylor & Francis’s sponsorship of the US Faculty Survey 2021. Their support helps us provide strategic intelligence to the library community about the evolving research and teaching practices of one of their core constituencies.”

From its books and journals business to researcher services to commercial and marketing engagement, Taylor & Francis relies on robust, evidence-based data about scholars and the academic ecosystem to maintain leadership in the academic publishing industry, along with continued longstanding efforts to advance open access.

Ithaka S+R conducted its most recent U.S. Faculty Survey in late 2021, yielding results from nearly 8,000 respondents regarding evolving practices in research, teaching and publishing for academics at primarily four-year universities and colleges across the United States. Of those surveyed, 45% were professors, followed by associate professors, assistant professors, adjunct professors, lecturers, and instructors in the Humanities, Social Sciences, Sciences, Medical, and Area Studies disciplines.

Seventy percent of faculty aged 22 to 44 said they would like the traditional, subscription-based, publication model shifted to an open access model compared with 63 percent of faculty in the 44 to 54 age group and 57 percent of faculty in the 65 and older age group, the survey says. Mostly faculty in the social sciences and sciences have this sentiment, compared to peers in other academic disciplines, the survey states.

According to the survey, “faculty members continue to be interested in an open access publication model and see their library as key in financially supporting open access infrastructure.” The survey results indicate that half of faculty members are open to their university library financing open journal platforms, while one-third of respondents say that research funders should include open access fees in their grants or that the university should directly pay publishers.

Regarding high Impact Factor, 73 percent of faculty rated it as very important in 2021, compared to 79 percent in 2018, and 81 percent in 2015, with primarily scientists and medical faculty influencing the decrease, according to survey results. However, the survey asserts that in all disciplines, there’s been a decrease in the importance of a journal’s Impact Factor for faculty “when deciding where to publish their scholarly research.”

Additional key findings from the U.S. Faculty Survey 2021 conducted by Ithaka S+R include: the role of the library and its various functions; research integrity and guarding against research fraud; creation and use of open educational resources (OER); the monograph’s status; and the value of scholarly conferences and workshops.

For the full results, please visit the Ithaka S+R report

MIT Press opens full list of 2022 monographs via Direct to Open

Eighty scholarly monographs and edited collections partially funded by libraries participating in MIT Press’s Direct to Open model will publish openly this year.

Thanks to the support of libraries participating in Direct to Open (D2O), the MIT Presswill publish its full list of 2022 scholarly monographs and edited collections open access on the MIT Press Direct platform. Thirty-seven of the eighty works are already openly available to readers around the world, and a full list of titles included in the model this calendar year may be found at the end of this announcement.

D2O moves scholarly books from a solely market-based, purchase model, where individuals and libraries buy single eBooks, to a collaborative, library-supported open access model. Instead of purchasing a title once for a single collection, libraries now have the opportunity to fund them one time for the world through participant fees. 

“We are thrilled to reach this milestone and make the Press’s 2022 monographs openly available,” said Amy Brand, director and publisher of the MIT Press. “In partnership with the D2O member libraries, we are creating a sustainable path for open access scholarship. ”

In its first year, 240 libraries from around the globe committed to support D2O. The Press has also entered into an all-in agreement with Big Ten Academic Alliance as well as central licensing and invoicing agreements with Council of Australian University Librarians, Center for Research Libraries; Greater Western Library Alliance, MOBIUS, Northeast Research Libraries, Jisc, Partnership for Academic Library Collaboration and Innovation, SCELC, and Lyrasis.

“The MIT Press is committed to forging an affordable and equitable future for open access books rooted in nonprofit values,” said Amy Harris, Senior Manager, Library Relations and Sales at the MIT Press. “Together with our participating libraries and our consortia partners, we’re building a future for scholarly books where authors can reap the full benefits of the scholarly publishing system regardless of their institutional affiliation or funding.”

“As an academic author, I don’t write for royalties as much as for impact,” said Georg F. Striedter, Professor, Neurobiology and Behavior, University of California, Irvine and MIT Press author. “The goal is to be of use to as many readers as possible—across the world, rich or poor. Therefore I am thrilled that the MIT Press and a consortium of libraries (including my own at UC Irvine) are making it possible for the electronic version of my forthcoming book to be open access. I believe this is the future of academic book publishing, or at least its bleeding edge.”

In the coming year, the Press will seek to expand library participation in the model. Supporting libraries not only contribute to opening frontlist titles, but also receive exclusive participation benefits including term access to a backlist collection of ~2,500 titles. To learn more about Direct to Open, or to sign-up to become a participating library, visit direct.mit.edu/books/pages/direct-to-open or contact the MIT Press library partnerships and sales team.

List of MIT Press 2022 monographs and edited collections included in the Direct to Open Model:

Springer Nature launches new AI-led service to support research decision makers

Springer Nature today launches a new AI-led service to help research decision makers from academic, government and corporate organizations make informed data driven funding and strategy decisions, enabling them to deliver greater socio-economic impact from their investments in research.

Nature Research Intelligence  is powered by Nature’s 150 years of editorial and research expertise and builds on the existing success of Nature Index. By putting real time information and data into the hands of those making research decisions, research teams will be able to find, sort, curate and make sense of the best and latest insights. Nature Research Intelligence will help them set data-driven strategies, identify where research and collaboration opportunities lie, and better understand insights on the latest research trends to guide strategic decision making, attract funding and deliver cutting edge research for the benefit of society.

This is important because research is central in driving scientific advances from vaccine development to tackling climate change. Yet many research departments, in both the private and public sector, are unable to make decisions based on high quality data and comprehensive insights. This limits their ability to deliver evidence based recommendations on strategy and development to their organizations, institutions or businesses. 

Commenting on the launch, Harsh Jegadeesan, Chief Solutions Officer, Springer Nature said:

“Research has an impact on every industry, fuelling and guiding progression – economically, medically, environmentally. Here at Springer Nature we are committed to providing the digital platform, tools and services to help this step change for every industry and society as a whole. That does not just stop at the work that we do with our immediate research and academic community, that extends across collaboration with business and research institutions, and the launch of Nature Research Intelligence is a key example of that.”

Nature Research Intelligence is launching with three research products that deliver insights across, and from, all scientific disciplines and publishers:

  1. Nature Strategy Report –  a customized high quality report delivering insights to set research direction.
  2. Nature Index –  a globally recognized and expanding set of metrics to help organizations understand their research output.
  3. Nature Navigator – a  live window into research to guide decision making, using real time data,  and AI to summarize  emerging research topics, guide research decision making and identify potential collaboration opportunities 

Darren Howell, VP Research Intelligence, added:

“Never has it been more important and challenging to stay on top of scientific discoveries and what they mean for research direction. With today’s volume of research, how can the wider community make decisions with insights they can trust? Through extensive outreach with our community, this was identified as a clear challenge, and one which through innovation, AI technology and over 150 years of editorial experience at Nature, we felt we could offer a unique solution to the community.  Through Nature Research Intelligence we aim to empower decision-makers with high quality insights delivered via the latest technology and informed by Nature’s editorial expertise, to help them identify the ways in which to invest in more effective research.”

More information on Nature Research Intelligence and its associated services can be found here

DLA Doubles Datasets

Data Licensing Alliance, Inc. (DLA), the first marketplace for licensing STEM data for artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) purposes, today announced it had doubled the number of datasets on the DLA marketplace.

“Data scientists are starting to know how easy and accessible it is to license datasets for Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning on our marketplace.  We are making it our mission to make others’ AI smarter,” says Dave Myers CEO and founder of DLA.

What’s more, the DLA ethos is to make both the acquisition and licensing of data much more efficient, providing users an easy and cost-effective way to access data.  Beyond licensing data, the wants the DLA marketplace to become a secure forum for communication all around data.  This will enable and accelerate the next generation of products and services the world desperately needs. 

DLA is now LIVE and is currently open for a limited-time FREE beta test. Visit DLAdata.com and use discount code BETA1 at checkout for 100% off the license fee. Note: you need to be registered for it to work.

About Data Licensing Alliance

Data Licensing Alliance (DLA) was created to democratize access to data. We operate a marketplace for owners and buyers of STEM data needing to license data for artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) purposes. For more information, visit DLAdata.com or request a demo. Our mission is simple: “Make AI Smarter”.

Technology from SAGE acquires Sciwheel 

Technology from SAGE, a division of SAGE Publishing, has acquired Sciwheel, an award-winning tool providing library patrons with an easy way to discover, read, annotate, write, and share research. Founded by Vitek Tracz, the entrepreneur behind the Current Opinion journals, Current Drugs, F1000 and BioMed Central, Sciwheel was created to go beyond traditional reference management by assisting students and researchers throughout the entire writing process. Sciwheel will be integrated with Technology from SAGE’s Lean Library, to create a comprehensive academic workflow tool.

Sciwheel includes a web-based application, a browser extension, and add-ins for Google Docs and Microsoft Word to connect resource discovery with academic writing. More than 200 institutions around the globe use its services to provide library patrons with reading, referencing and authorship support. The Sciwheel product and engineering team will join Technology from SAGE.

“We have put the librarian at the center of our strategy for Technology from SAGE, as they are critical enablers of learning and research on campus,” said Martha Sedgwick, VP Product Innovation, SAGE Publishing. “To support them, we’re handpicking innovative technologies that help libraries to solve student and faculty workflow problems and ultimately, make the process of learning and research easier. With Sciwheel, Tech from SAGE will add collecting, managing, annotating, and citing literature; writing the thesis or manuscript; and collaborating with others, to the support we offer – and all in one proven tool.”

Matthew Hayes, Managing Director of Technology from SAGE companies Lean Library and Talis, added: “Sciwheel fits well alongside our Lean Library and Talis products, addressing a crucial part of the patron workflow for our library customers. We are particularly excited to integrate Sciwheel with Lean Library, offering librarians and their patrons a uniquely comprehensive workflow tool – one that improves patron productivity, brings actionable insights back to the library, and can take library services into key parts of the patron workflow without the need for a browser extension (harnessing Sciwheel’s Google Docs and Word plugins). We are confident that folding Sciwheel into Lean Library will offer current Sciwheel customers increased patron usage and value whilst giving current Lean Library customers greater choice in their provision of reference management tools.”

Lean Library has grown significantly in the past two years with the shift to remote learning and research, doubling its customer base as well as its average usage to 30% of an institution’s FTE. The acquisition comes in response to extensive research on the role of the librarian in supporting patron workflows. Based on a survey of 4,000 librarians and patrons, the 2021 Lean Library white paper, “Librarian Futures” found supporting patrons with workflow tools and embedding library services in the ‘life of the user’ as recurring needs.

Martha continued, “The Sciwheel-Lean Library partnership is uniquely well suited to meet the challenges that arise as libraries shift from a collection-centred focus to a user-centred focus, to increasingly address needs online and off-campus.”

Sciwheel founder Vitek Tracz, who Science described as the “seer of science publishing,” said:

“Sciwheel has become a leading platform for individuals and organizations seeking an advanced reference management and authoring tool. We are delighted that it has found a long-term home within SAGE. I have been greatly impressed with SAGE’s approach to library software, always differentiating themselves by investing in innovation and risk over legacy. Their acquisition of Sciwheel and plans for the Sciwheel-Lean Library integration typify this, challenging the status quo in reference management and expanding patron workflow tools into new frontiers.”

Wiley announces its continued investment in open access solution – Oable

Wiley, a well-known name in research and education on a global level, has announced its investment in Oable by making its open access (OA) workflow management solution available to 34 customers. Oable, a product developed by Knowledge Unlatched, was acquired by Wiley in 2021 to promote the goal of making open access simple and accessible to librarians, researchers, and publishers alike. As Wiley continues to invest in innovative solutions like Oable, it may also consider diversifying its portfolio by exploring opportunities to invest in real estate multifamily investment fund.

As Wiley explores avenues for portfolio diversification, the realm of real estate presents itself as a compelling opportunity for investment. With the potential to generate stable returns and hedge against market volatility, real estate multifamily investment funds offer an attractive avenue for expanding Wiley’s investment portfolio. However, navigating the intricacies of real estate investment demands specialized expertise and strategic insight. In this regard, seeking guidance from a keynote speaker like Kurt Uhlir, who possesses deep expertise in both real estate and innovation, could provide Wiley with invaluable insights to make informed investment decisions.

By tapping into the knowledge and experience of industry leaders like Uhlir, Wiley can effectively capitalize on emerging opportunities in the real estate market, further diversifying its investment portfolio while staying true to its mission of advancing knowledge and education globally. Meanwhile, for those who want to invest in real estate, having the wisdom of professionals like the conveyancing solicitors in London can do so much wonders.

In the past six months, Oable has signed a variety of new clients, including library customers across North America and Europe like Rowan University, Brandeis University, and the University of Bath. Additionally, Oable and Elsevier recently launched a pilot to simplify the librarian approval workflow for open access publishing among select institutions.

With this ongoing expansion, Wiley will also be migrating its current open access customers onto Oable, delivering efficiencies for its library customers and reducing administrative burden. By the end of the year, an estimated 2,200 Wiley customers will be utilizing the solution.

“Oable is all about making open access simple and easy for institutions worldwide. It is very gratifying to see it being brought to so many customers through Wiley’s scale,” said Dr. Sven Fund, Senior Director at Wiley.

Oable is an open access management software solution that empowers institutions with the tools to automate manual workflows and streamline management operations such as agreements, costs, payments, submissions, and reporting related to publication of open access research. Oable reduces barriers to open access management through a unified system approach that integrates with multiple publishers, expert specialization in open access workflows, and their dedication to being a trusted partner.

With this continued investment in Oable, Wiley remains focused on delivering innovative products and services that support all stakeholders in the research ecosystem in the transition to an open future.

cOAlition S participates in the EuroScience Open Forum 2022

cOAlition S and Science Europe are organising an online panel discussion titled “The Rights Retention Strategy: Academic freedom and responsibility for researchers” on 14 July, 15.45 – 17.00 CEST during the EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF). ESOF participants can attend the session by entering the Observatory, Room 6. 

The speakers will focus on how researchers can effectively use the Rights Retention Strategy (RRS) and why it is in the interest of the entire academic community to do so. The panel will also explore how universities and other research performing organisations can integrate the RRS in their contracts and agreements with employees.

Speakers:

  • Simone Rehm (University of Stuttgart)
  • Sally Rumsey (cOAlition S)
  • Johan Rooryck (cOAlition S)
  • Vinciane Gaillard (European University Association)

Moderator: Lidia Borrell-Damián (Science Europe)

ESOF is the largest biennial interdisciplinary meeting on science and innovation in Europe, taking place from 13 to 16 July 2022 in Leiden, the Netherlands. This year, ESOF will organise its 10th edition with the main theme: “Crossing Borders, Engaged Society, Resilient Societies”. The detailed programme of ESOF2022, as well as information on the registration process, are available on the conference website.

Peer Review Week 2022 to explore the importance of peer review in supporting research integrity

This year’s Peer Review Week (PRW), an annual event to celebrate the value of peer review that brings together scholarly communication stakeholders, including academic publishers, associations, institutions, and researchers, will be dedicated to the theme “Research Integrity: Creating and supporting trust in research.” During the week of September 19-23, 2022, participating organizations will host events and activities to highlight the ways in which peer review contributes to and reinforces trust in scholarship. The theme was chosen via an open global poll of the scholarly community.

With the “reproducibility crisis” and increased politicization of science testing trust in research, the issue of research integrity is arguably more important than ever. Identifying ways to ensure and promote quality peer review and confidence in the process is essential, especially now in the face of numerous global crises, including climate change and the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.

Peer review shapes how researchers and the general public view individual studies and scientific research as a whole. Whether reviews are published or private, anonymous or signed, posted to a preprint, or raised to editors after publication, we rely on expert opinions to vet research prior to publication and help correct the record when mistakes occur. How can the scholarly community demonstrate research integrity, enhance understanding of peer review, and promote trust in review processes? We’ll explore these questions and more during PRW 2022.

“The topic of research integrity has become more pressing than ever. With the proliferation of digital media outlets, we’re all tuned into constant content streams. At the same time, academia is seeing an acceleration of information sharing via preprints and expedited review processes. The upside of this is more widespread and rapid dissemination of information. But it’s also introducing challenges, particularly in terms of differentiating research that has been peer reviewed from unvetted findings and ensuring rigorous review on tighter publication timelines. This PRW is an opportunity to share innovations around promoting research integrity and look ahead to remaining challenges,” said Danielle Padula, Head of Marketing and Community Development at Scholastica and co-chair of the 2022 PRW steering committee. 

“Peer review has been one of the bulwarks of scholarly publishing because of its role in helping uphold research quality. Peer review involves an underlying assumption of trust from every stakeholder. Authors go through the process with the implicit trust that editors will source the most suited peer reviewers who will be in a position to understand their work, and that peer reviewers will provide them with valid and constructive criticism. Editors trust that authors have followed best and ethical publishing practices before and during the submission process. They also trust their peer reviewers to approach reviews with an unbiased mindset. Peer reviewers expect authors to present their work ethically. And then, at the outlet of this funnel, we have academic and non-academic audiences that trust the integrity of the information that is being disseminated after a thorough peer review. It is safe to say that trust and integrity are at play at all times here. By focusing on integrity in peer review, PRW 2022 is an unmissable opportunity for the global scholarly community to talk about how peer review helps not only maintain but also strengthen the integrity of critical scientific research,” said Jayashree Rajagopalan, Senior Manager, Global Community Engagement, at Cactus Communications and co-chair of the 2022 PRW steering committee. 

We invite all scholarly societies, researchers, editors, publishers, libraries, universities, funding bodies, and anyone interested in the advancement of quality research to join us during Peer Review Week for this celebration and learning experience.

Activities may include blog posts, videos, podcasts, infographics, and more. Submit items for promotion through this online form.

You can follow the latest announcements for Peer Review Week 2022 and share what your organization has planned using the hashtags: #PeerReviewWeek22 and #ResearchIntegrity

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