In recent years, China has looked to position itself as the world’s largest producer of scientific knowledge, and the data certainly seems to support this.1 As of September 22, 2024, figures from Incites, based on Web of Science documents, show that China led global academic production with 1,293,317 publications and a remarkable 2,792,765 citations for […]
The Abbreviation Overload in Data Management: Are We Overdoing It?
Have you ever noticed how in data management, abbreviations seem to pop up everywhere? It’s like the tech world has its own secret language, and sometimes, it feels like we’re using these acronyms just to sound more high-tech than we really are. Let’s examine this trend and why it might be more confusing than helpful. […]
Peer Review: tools, training, and integration
Research integrity, artificial intelligence (AI), and peer review have become inextricably linked. The same technologies that can be used to generate content are now being put to use to safeguard it and to help identify large-scale ‘bad actors’ in the scholarly research system according to Nancy Roberts, Maverick’s Head of Technology & Content. Fortunately, publishers […]
Peer review from a researcher’s perspective
Maverick Affiliate Senior Associate, Maria Machado is co-chair of Peer Review Week 2024. In a new post for Maverick’s peer review series, Maria draws upon her extensive experience as a writer, peer reviewer, and auditor to highlight some of the peer review issues faced by researchers and editors along with her recommendations for solutions. In […]
Introducing Strategic Sales Transformation
Maverick is excited to introduce a new service offering, Strategic Sales Transformation, led by Affiliate Senior Associate, Lisa McCarthy. In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, staying ahead of the curve is crucial. Lisa and her team specialize in transforming sales teams into digitally confident, innovative, and highly effective units. Their tailored solutions are designed to […]
Accessibility compliance in Denmark and Lithuania
Maverick Affiliate Senior Associate, Will Awad has written extensively about the European Accessibility Act (EAA) and its goal of removing barriers to products, services, and infrastructure for individuals in Europe affected by disabilities. In Breaking Down Barriers: An Overview of the European Accessibility Act and Its Implementation Across the EU Countries (Ireland and Germany), Will […]
Researcher education at SSP 2024
Maverick CEO Rebecca Rinehart presented the poster “Integrating education in the research life cycle” at last week’s SSP Annual Meeting and provides her thoughts. The SSP poster sessions were well attended and offered a variety of perspectives. Maverick’s poster highlighted a model for researcher education that can be integrated into all of the touchpoints with […]
Workflow automation and interoperability support the publishing life cycle
An automated workflow is essential to respond to the changing needs of the open access publishing landscape. Such a workflow can ensure that manuscripts are efficiently processed and published in a timely fashion while helping to ensure that safeguards are built in to maintain research and data integrity. Interoperability of all components of scholarly publishing—from […]
Integrating Researcher Education into the Research Life Cycle: A Continuum for fostering excellence in scholarly publishing
Researchers represent the core of scholarly publishing, yet many of them feel inadequately prepared to assume the increasingly complex role created for them by the current publishing environment. As scholarly publishing evolves to extend to new models, funder mandates, open scholarship, and data management, researchers must assume responsibility for new functions and processes for which […]
Diamond open access in Latin America: the challenge of a sustainable publishing model
It is no secret that access to scientific information and publishing in certain journals is not equally distributed across the globe. Open Access has been adopted more or less extensively in different regions, and some countries have developed in-house solutions to assure the visibility of their scientific production through community-owned infrastructure. In Latin America, the […]