Introduction A year on, and it’s about time for us to find out the largest publishers in the world. Which companies come out on top? The focus in identifying the biggest companies will be on publishers involved in commercial and academic publishing, where they publish and disseminate books, journals, educational publications, information products, and others, … Read more
ChatGPT, an AI-powered chat tool, is fast making waves and continues to be embraced by many people globally. It has become one of the most widely used AI tools in various disciplines and platforms. Academic publishing is one arena where ChatGPT is making an influence and many wonder how ChatGPT will change academic publishing. No … Read more
The Journal Citation Reports 2023, the latest scholarly report by Clarivate Analytics was recently unveiled, with some significant changes. The reports are long-awaited, yearly, by the journal’s editorial team and management as the data in the document can mean progress, stagnation or decline. But before we delve further, let’s understand more about what the Journal … Read more
If you are in the field of academic publishing, you should be familiar with the term “et al.” But if you are new, you would wonder: I first discovered the term et al. more than ten years ago, soon after landing a job with a scholarly publisher (and remain until today). As an academic publisher … Read more
This article discusses six main differences between copyediting and copywriting. Copyediting and copywriting are two crucial components of the publishing process. The two may have a slight similarity in their sound, but they have vast differences. While people in publishing mostly know how the two are distinguished, many beginners are still unclear about how copyediting … Read more
