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Articles by David Sleeman
The Ideal Future of Peer Review: Through the Editor’s Lens
From 25-29 September 2023 we celebrate Peer Review Week (PRW), which this year explores the relationship between peer review and the future of publishing. Undoubtedly, peer review faces its share of challenges. This much is clear from the voices and opinions we have gathered on this blog for this year’s Peer Review Week.
Alternative Peer Review Models: Through the Editor’s Lens
From 25-29 September 2023 we celebrate Peer Review Week (PRW), which this year explores the relationship between peer review and the future of publishing. The evaluation of academic publications takes various forms, with single- and double-blind peer review remaining the most prevalent types. The former anonymizes only the reviewers; the latter both reviewers and authors.
Artificial Intelligence and Peer Review: Through the Editor’s Lens
From 25-29 September 2023 we celebrate Peer Review Week (PRW), which this year explores the relationship between peer review and the future of publishing. For many academic authors, peer review manifests itself in an emailed list of recommendations about their manuscript provided by an anonymous expert in their field. Now, consider a scenario where this expert is not a human scholar, but an artificial intelligence (AI) tasked with deciding between acceptance, revision and rejection.
Peer Review in a Changing World: Through the Editor’s Lens
From 25-29 September 2023 we celebrate Peer Review Week (PRW), which this year explores the relationship between peer review and the future of publishing. In its daily practice, peer review remains a process that hasn’t seen drastic changes over the past decades. Meanwhile, both the research landscape and the world that it studies are swiftly evolving.
Sport and the Power of Conflict
At the Closing Ceremony for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach praised the triumphant staging of the Games in the midst of a global pandemic. “This is the unifying power of sport,” he declared. “This is the message of solidarity, the message of peace and the message of resilience. This gives all of us hope for our further journey together.” Bach’s words echo common declarations about sport’s ability to “unite” people across a range of divisions.
Natur und Spiritualität: Ein Gespräch mit Harald Lesch
Das vorliegende Interview erschien erstmalig am 9. Juni 2021 unter dem Titel “Spiritualität der Natur: Brücke zwischen der Welt außen und der Welt innen. Ein Gespräch mit Harald Lesch” in der Zeitschrift Spiritual Care. Im Spannungsfeld von Materie und Geist scheinen sich Naturwissenschaft und Spiritualität diametral gegenüber zu stehen. Doch dass dem nicht zwangsläufig so ist, durften wir in einem spannenden Gespräch mit Prof. Dr. Harald Lesch nachvollziehen.
Bridging Chemistry with Art – How We Put the “A” in STEM - De Gruyter Conversations
There has long been a notion that art and science are separated by a vast and impassable gulf. Science is seen as objective and driven by quantitative facts, whereas art is subjective, emotional, and guided by aesthetics. This view reduces both endeavours to caricatures, and leaves little room for dialogue, let alone the possibility for scientists-as-artists or artists-as-scientists.
How to Write a Good Research Paper
This post is part of a series, which serves to provide hands-on information and resources for authors and editors. Things have gotten busy in scholarly publishing: These days, a new article gets published in the 50,000 most important peer-reviewed journals every few seconds, while each one takes on average 40 minutes to read. Hundreds of thousands of papers reach the desks of editors and reviewers worldwide each year and 50% of all submissions end up rejected at some stage.
Restricted access: How the Pandemic is Still Impacting Humanities Scholars
Between May and October 2020, the De Gruyter insights team conducted wide-ranging research examining the impact of the pandemic on scholars and their work. We discovered a worrying picture of burned out academics with early career researchers, female academics and those with teaching and caring responsibilities bearing the brunt of the stress. But we also uncovered some stark differences in how academics from different disciplines were being affected too.
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