Academic publishing has been in serious need of an overhaul for a while. Maybe AI will force some positive change.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

In December 2023 Wiley announced it would stop using the Hindawi brand, acquired in 2021, following its decision in May 2023 to shut four of its journals “to mitigate against systematic manipulation of the publishing process.”

“The industry recognizes that AI is utilized by paper mills to generate fraudulent content,” Wiley’s spokesperson told us.

“We’ve recently introduced a new screening technology that helps identify papers with potential misuse of generative AI before the point of publication.”

Springer Nature, for example, last October launched Curie – an AI-powered writing assistant intended to help scientists whose first language is not English.

The journals closed in May 2023 were heavily impacted by paper mills to such an extent it was in the best interest of the scholarly community to discontinue them immediately."

Meanwhile, in Wiley’s fiscal Q3 2024 earnings report, the publisher noted that revenue for its learning division is expected to be toward the higher end of projections due to “Q4 content rights deals for training AI models.”

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