Introduction By 2035, academic publishing will still have journals, peer review, publishers and even the PDF, but each will work very differently from today. This article goes through what is likely to survive, what will change shape, and what may quietly disappear. Key points Academic publishing loves to imagine itself as timeless. Peer review feels … Read more
Introduction In scholarly publishing, the article is no longer where the real money and power sit. The lasting value now lies in the data built around it: metadata, citation graphs, usage analytics and the research-intelligence tools that universities and funders pay for year after year. Key points For decades, scholarly publishing revolved around a comforting … Read more
Introduction For most of its modern history, peer review has been treated as a moment. A paper is submitted, reviewers are assigned, comments are exchanged, and a decision is made. Once published, the work is assumed to have passed a threshold of quality and legitimacy. The system moves on to the next manuscript. That mental … Read more
Introduction Scholarly journal indexing is usually framed as boring infrastructure. A background system. A checklist. A database decision. Something editors deal with quietly while scholars focus on research and writing. That framing is convenient, because it hides just how much power indexing holds over academic life. Being indexed by major databases determines which journals survive … Read more
Introduction Academic publishing is currently undergoing a midlife crisis of some sort. For decades, the traditional model of shipping papers off to a corporate giant, waiting six months for peer review, and then paying to read your own work has been the standard. However, as the internet matured, researchers began to realize that the heavy … Read more