You say you want a RevolutionWell, you knowWe all wanna change the world Revolution 1, The Beatles Attending the Academy of Management conference this week in Copenhagen was disorienting in so many ways. It’s a traditionally US-based conference hosted in one of the most stereotypical European cities in the region; it was hosting some of … Continue reading The Evolution Starts Now: Insights from the AOM Annual Meeting
An Answer to the Hardest Question: Where Will You Publish?
Today sees the launch of CompassAI, a new feature for Cabells users which utilises AI to match journals to their article abstracts. Here, Simon Linacre takes us through the latest tool to help researchers in their publishing quest. Publishers have long been obsessed with understanding the psychology behind authors’ decisions to publish in certain … Continue reading An Answer to the Hardest Question: Where Will You Publish?
Cabells Launches Beta of CompassAI – High-powered Journal Matching Tool for Authors
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE BEAUMONT, TX: Cabells – a US-based information services company – has launched CompassAI, a powerful and useful tool to help researchers and institutions optimize decision-making for where they publish. With CompassAI, Cabells has taken the latest AI technology and overlaid it onto its highly regarded Journalytics and Predatory Reports databases. The result … Continue reading Cabells Launches Beta of CompassAI – High-powered Journal Matching Tool for Authors
Full-Court Press
Scholarly communications as an industry is nothing if not symbiotic. Publishers, authors, institutions, and information providers are part of a dynamic web, constantly adding complex structures to an already labyrinthine universe of academic endeavor. As a result, those actors operating from within these interconnected systems need to behave – or at least they should behave … Continue reading Full-Court Press
Cabells Featured in CBS News Report on Predatory Journals
Cabells appreciated the opportunity to contribute to a recent CBS News segment highlighting the escalating threat of predatory journals and their impact on research credibility. The report explains how these fraudulent outlets exploit researchers and put the integrity of scholarly communication at risk. As part of the segment, Cabells shared how our Predatory Reports database … Continue reading Cabells Featured in CBS News Report on Predatory Journals
Have Business Schools Found Their Way Back Yet?
Twenty years ago, almost to the day, an article was published in the Harvard Business Review that, at the time, sent shockwaves throughout the business school world. Rarely has the phrase ‘Emperor’s new clothes’ been used so aptly, as you could almost hear the hiss around campuses as inflated reputations suddenly lost their status. Written … Continue reading Have Business Schools Found Their Way Back Yet?
Five-Point Plan
Incredibly, it has been over five years since we started The Source, our regular offering of insight and intel on the worlds of research integrity and academic publishing. But do the original posts still hold up? We thought it would be interesting to look back at one of our first posts in The Source to … Continue reading Five-Point Plan
Trust is Index-linked
The first indexes were found in books as early as the 16th Century, and the word itself comes from the Latin for ‘one who points out’ or an ‘indication’ - literally using the forefinger to draw attention to something. Inherent in this is the understanding that what is being pointed out is factual, whether it … Continue reading Trust is Index-linked
Prime Position
In 1998, the UK and Irish governments negotiated a peace deal for Northern Ireland, which largely brought decades of sectarian violence to an end. At the time, UK Prime Minister Tony Blair said: “A day like today is not a day for soundbites, we can leave those at home, but I feel the hand of … Continue reading Prime Position
The Google Zero-Sum Game
Last week saw the great and the good of scholarly communications converge in Baltimore, Maryland for the annual Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) event. Many of us were jealous of those attending – particularly those with sweet views of the nearby baseball stadium, Oriole Park at Camden Yards, from their hotel – but publishers were … Continue reading The Google Zero-Sum Game