The Peer-to-Processor Review

Clarivate's Web of Science Research Intelligence is an AI-native institutional platform covering research funding, strategy, and impact assessment — a significant product launch from one of the dominant players in scholarly infrastructure.

A Scholarly Kitchen post directly interrogating the 'zero-click' readership problem: as AI overviews (Google AI Mode, ChatGPT, etc.) synthesize research inline, users no longer click through to primary sources.

A sharp editorial arguing that machine-use rights have become scholarly publishing's most under-resolved legal and operational problem.

Dense roundup hitting multiple critical AI-in-publishing threads simultaneously: paper mills exploiting IEEE proceedings at scale (1,700 offers), AI disclosure policies not working across 5 million papers, a South Africa AI policy withdrawn due to AI-generated fake sources, and a Harvard physicis...

High-impact retraction from one of the world's most prestigious medical journals.

Scite's Smart Citations embedded directly into Claude represents a meaningful step toward AI-native scholarly workflows with citation accountability baked in.

Empirical counterpoint to a growing fear in research methodology: AI bots gaming survey data.

ALA formalizing AI guidance for libraries is a significant policy marker.

Research security tooling is increasingly AI-assisted; this upgrade positions Dimensions as an audit-ready compliance platform for institutions navigating geopolitical and funding security concerns.

Clarivate positions itself as the bridge between institutional research databases and consumer AI assistants.

Industry-wide survey from two credible trade bodies showing the AI adoption paradox in publishing: rapid uptake (~50%) paired with overwhelming negative sentiment.

'A scientist trained before AI sounds an alarm about the wholesale outsourcing of thinking to AI tools in research, arguing that no amount of computational efficiency can compensate for the erosion of human reasoning capacity in science.'