In 2025, academic books are experiencing a shift that mirrors, and in some ways exceeds, the transformation journals went through in the last decade. While the shift away from perpetual purchasing is not entirely unexpected, the scale and strategic alignment of this new model signal a redefinition of how book performance is assessed and how […]
From CNCI to Collab-CNCI: A smarter way to assess research impact
Measuring the true impact of academic research has always been a challenge. While citations are the most commonly used metric, do they really tell us which research is the most valuable? That’s where bibliometric analysis comes in, evolving over time to give us more precise insights. A recent advancement is changing the way we assess […]
Journal Performance Analysis – Redefining journal success in a competitive era
The academic publishing landscape is experiencing rapid and significant changes, driven by shifting global trends and evolving challenges. While the pandemic temporarily inflated Journal Impact Factors (JIF) due to a surge in COVID-related research, the 2024 Clarivate Analytics Journal Citation Report reveals a stark reversal, with an average 14% decline in JIFs across publishers. The […]
Journal Performance Analysis: Navigating Global Publishing Shifts and Impact Factors
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Insights on new publishing models from R2R 2024
Maverick Head of EMEA Business Development, Jayne Marks, attended the Researcher to Reader to Conference 2024 where she chaired the panel, Making New Models for Scholarly Communication a Reality. Jayne shares her key takeaways in this post for Insights. You can view a video recording of the session here. There is interest from across all […]
Academic discourse after Twitter
TL: DR: Twitter is moving away from the role that made it useful for scientists and academics, but this opens the way for something better and everything will be fine. Whether you feel that Twitter (now X) is experiencing a pretty brutal business transformation that will see it emerge, phoenix-like, as the everything-app we’ve all […]
Maverick’s Researcher Engagement Webinars
Engage with researchers to increase high-quality submissions Market forces are creating pressures on the scholarly publication landscape. New models like Open Access require an ever-increasing volume of submissions and published articles. Meeting the demand requires that researchers see your publications as a home for their work. Yet researchers are dealing with their own challenges, such […]