European Association of Science Editors

A lot of very useful and detailed resources for everyone from the novice to seasoned (and jaded) peer reviewer!

From our Oslo Conference we share the poster from our Peer Review Committee, showcasing the work of the team - including trainings, webinars, research projects, and produced 12 Guides and 4 Infographics, available through the Peer Review Toolkit page.

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Join us for an insightful, practical webinar on 25th November, with speakers from Frontiers, Wiley, and Elsevier, sharing their insights into recent developments in technology and data designed to support editors in their tasks to safeguard the scientific literature.

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We are excited to reveal the first of our plans towards our next online conference.

Help us choose the theme for conference sessions by voting for your favorite from three shortlisted options suggested by our Council.

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Upholding Integrity, Supporting People Highlights From the ISMTE/EASE 2025 Workshop

What's needed to maintain an effective editorial office in the age of misinformation?

@maverick-os.bsky.social's Lynsey Haire covers takeaways from an @easeeditors.bsky.social panel, which spanned workflow structures, submission screening tools/processes, and reviewer engagement.

Journal Editors! Managing Editors!

A call for 20 minutes of your time please, to contribute to this survey of editorial board management.

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EASE Update Issue 7

Have you read the latest EASE Update newsletter yet?

it contains :

🌎 Details of our new LinkedIn showcases pages for several Regional Chapters and DEI community
📋 Survey on Editorial Board Practices
👥 Peer Review Infographics
🖥️ Upcoming webinars
➕...and more!

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Shared Knowledge, Shared Impact: A New Era for Research Evaluation | Editage Insights This Open Access Week, experts explore how the research community can move beyond journal impact factors to measure real-world, community-driven impact through openness and equity.

EASE have contributed to an @editageinsights.bsky.social article for #OpenAccessWeek

Read comments from @ivagaeditor.bsky.social, @dnjournals.bsky.social @roohighosh.bsky.social @rachinams.bsky.social and @hoohar.bsky.social on the meanings of community impact

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A new Viewpoint by Bor Luen Tang questions increasing gold OA in less wealthy nations as paradoxical to increasing APCs and funding constraints.

Instead, he discusses phenomena of citations, peer review, and ‘mutually propagating publishing loop’ as alternative explanations

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From our Oslo poster exhibition, we share ReviewerAI: Transforming Peer Review Workflows Through AI-Driven Innovation, by Yusuf Sermet and Ibrahim Demir

Access it in hi-res pdf, and read all the posters from our 18th Conference on our @scienceopen.bsky.social Collection:

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This Thursday! Join us and STM for a session to discuss ways of reducing the publishing industry carbon footprint

This survey-based study assesses researchers’ familiarity with AI, their perceptions of benefits and challenges, ethical considerations, and expectations for future roles in the reviewing process.

The paper is published open access, available to read in full from ESE, now:

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thank you for sharing this event! see you there.

EASE Update Issue 7

EASE Update Issue 7 is up and out!

In this edition we announce our new Survey on Editorial Board Practices, several forthcoming webinars including our collaborative SDG-related event with STM, revisit our Peer Review Infographics (icymt), and more.

Enjoy!

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Join us for what promises to be a fantastic session to understand what differences we can make to improving the efficiency, and reducing the environmental impact of our operations.

EASE is a signatory to the UN SDG Publishers Compact.

Towards Goal 4: Quality Education, we provide free access to a range of materials and events of benefit to academics of all experiences, and all involved in the publishing industry.

Browse our website to see what could help you

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The final presentation from Matt Spick, will cover the recent development of mass-produced science, facilitated by open data sets and AI writing tools.

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The second, from Mathias Wullum Nielsen, will describe the Guidelines for Intersectional Analysis in Science and Technology (GIST), which aim to build on the successful SAGER guidelines.

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Reducing risk when publishing academic articles about suicide WHO estimates that over 720 000 people die by suicide each year worldwide.1 A well recognised form of suicide prevention is to reduce people's access to the means of suicide, including by restricting ...

In 'Reducing risk when publishing academic articles about suicide', Lorna Fraser discusses practices for research on suicide based on media guidelines: a necessary development now that open access means anyone can read academic articles about suicide and self harm.

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Good reporting practice: suicide, intersectionality and the challenges of mass-produced science - EASE This webinar will feature three presentations that address the dual roles of journal editors; to prevent the publication of poor quality research, and to ensure that the good quality research we publi...

Our October webinar features three presentations that address different aspects of good reporting practice:

media guidelines for sensitive topics, Guidelines for Intersectional Analysis in Science and Technology (GIST), and tackling mass-produced science

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Wiley's AI resources for the peer review process - EASE Wiley detail their AI and digital tech resources in the peer review process that provide support for authors and journal editors.

On the EASE Digest today, we look at a new page of the Wiley website which responds to many FAQs and details their AI resources in the peer review process.

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EASE Editorial School for Journal Editors - EASE EASE journal editor training courses are aimed at helping anyone managing journals to make their titles more visible, impactful, and full of engaging material.

Starting tomorrow, 1st October, Part 2 of our rolling 8-module training package.

Suitable for anyone involved in the academic oversight, management or planning of journals, and benefit all levels of experiences.

There's still time to register - see our website for info

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From our Oslo poster exhibition, the Runner Up in the Scholarly Publishing Process & Innovation category describes a toolkit to help faculty prepare and submit scholarly work to peer-reviewed journals, boosting the credibility and reach of nursing research.

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Not sarcasm, unfiltered rants are welcome (when they’re constructive and good faith like this one!)

A very thorough thread commenting on this article and the issues is raises

thank you for your very thorough comments!

In this new ESE Viewpoint, @reeserichardson.bsky.social and Matt Spick help editors identify mass-produced research to reject them at the point of submission, reducing the burden on peer review, and the amount of poor-quality noise introduced to the published literature.

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For @peerreviewweek.bsky.social we share this poster presentation from the EASE Peer Review Committee, detailing their Guides and Infographics available from our PR Toolkit, Publications and Resources.

See it in hi-res + more info on @scienceopen.bsky.social

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Part II of the EASE Editorial School for Journal Editors begins in October.

No need to take Part I first, you can start here with four modules to help your journals enhance their publishing strategy, visibility, impact, and editorial processes

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YouTube video by Editage How AI is Redefining the Future of Peer Review | Iva Grabarić Andonovski

In this new Editage video for @peerreviewweek.bsky.social, our Vice President, Iva Grabaric Andonovski shares her thoughts on whether AI can replace human peer reviewers.

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