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The EASE Virtual Forest is growing!5 September 2024The latest donation to the EASE Forest takes our grand total up to 1891 trees around the world at 23 different plantations.
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How Collaborative Peer Review Can Transform Scientific Research22 July 2024In this PreReview blog post, Ebuka Ezeike describes the benefits of collaborative peer review.
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The new EASE Interactive Checklist for Submitting Authors15 July 2024Our new updated Author Forms introduced in an ESE Editorial that details its’ role in improving the efficiency and integrity of journal submission processes.
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Open access is working – but researchers in lower-income countries enjoy fewer benefits9 July 2024Open-access publishing facilitates the flow of academic research, particularly benefiting researchers in resource-poor settings. However, scientists in low-income countries face challenges, such as power imbalances and limited visibility, which prevent them from fully benefiting from open access.
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AI Shaming: The Silent Stigma among Academic Writers and Researchers9 July 2024AI shaming involves criticizing individuals or organizations for using AI to generate content or perform tasks, emerging recently in academia. This paper examines AI shaming's characteristics, causes, and effects, noting that it often dismisses AI-assisted work as deceitful, lazy, or less valuable.
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There is no easy fix to peer review but paying referees and regulating the number of submissions might help9 July 2024The peer review process, vital to scientific dissemination, faces challenges like being slow, biased, and overloaded. Reforms, including paid professional reviewers, are proposed to address inefficiencies and incentivize participation.
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Guideline for reporting systematic reviews of outcome measurement instruments (OMIs): PRISMA-COSMIN for OMIs 20249 July 2024This article introduces the PRISMA-COSMIN 2024 guideline, an extension of the PRISMA 2020 guideline, to improve the reporting of systematic reviews of outcome measurement instruments (OMIs).
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Tobacco funded research: how even journals with bans find it hard to stem the tide of publications9 July 2024In this paper published in BMJ, the authors highlight how tobacco companies are increasingly investing in pharmaceutical and medical products, complicating the efforts of researchers and journals to distance themselves from the industry.
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Causal Inference About the Effects of Interventions From Observational Studies in Medical Journals9 July 2024Many medical journals, including JAMA, restrict causal language to randomized clinical trials (RCTs). However, RCTs are not always feasible due to costs, duration, or ethical concerns...
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NISO Guidelines for Communication of Retractions, Removals, and Expressions of Concern2 July 2024This new guideline aims to establish standardised best practices for metadata creation, transfer, and display for both the original publication and subsequent statements.
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EASE Ukraine attend the Association of University Presses Conference 20241 July 2024Ukrainian Chapter Chair, Prof. Iryna Izarova, along with Ukrainian chapter members Prof. Ganna Kharlamova and Mag. Yuliia Hartman, recently attended the Association of University Presses (AUPresses) conference in Montreal, Canada.
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The Lancet and colonialism: past, present, and future1 July 2024This analysis of historical colonialism in publications calls for debate on the practices that lead to legitimizing specific perspectives in health and medicine.
