Todd Carpenter

1 week ago | scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org | Todd Carpenter

Since the launch of the Journal Impact Factor half a century ago in 1975, the bibliometric assessment of research outputs has proven a lasting and important — if flawed — method of quantifying impact. When considering new or non-traditional output forms, trying to ascertain their use through mentions in the literature has been a challenging endeavor. While today there are tools to facilitate this process at scale, applying these remains a significant challenge.

3 weeks ago | scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org | Todd Carpenter

The last week has seen remarkable changes in the senior leadership at one of the world’s most venerable research libraries, the Library of Congress. Last Thursday, its as announced that the White House dismissed the Librarian of Congress, Dr. Carla Hayden. Shortly thereafter, on Saturday, it was announced that Shira Perlmutter had also been removed from her role as Register of Copyrights.

2 months ago | scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org | Todd Carpenter

As tumultuous as 2025 has begun, the STM Trends Report looking forward to 2029 provides a vision and a bridge to the future. Looking beyond the significant shifts and upheaval of today, the new report, which was released yesterday at the STM US Annual Conference in Washington, DC, shows us a path forward.

2 months ago | scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org | Todd Carpenter |Helen Pearson |Phil Jones

There are many aspects to research integrity, from correctly attributing authorship to the creation of, or manipulation of data, to the application of large language models in writing the text. Each presents its own problems for policing the integrity of scholarly record. In turn, each has received significant attention recently as scholarly publishers grapple with their fundamental duty, which is to provide vetted, trusted research to the world.

Feb 26, 2025 | scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org | Todd Carpenter

As artificial intelligence (AI) systems become increasingly integrated into scholarly research and knowledge dissemination, publishers face a critical challenge: how to best integrate their content into this new ecosystem. Currently, an increasing number of publishers are collaborating with AI system suppliers to license their content for large language model training, small model development, and retrieval-augmented generation applications.