Everyone in scholarly publishing has heard the warning: peer review is in crisis. But is it? That question is where the 2026 Future of Peer Review Report begins. Before accepting a crisis narrative...
We're pleased to announce the second annual report on the Future of Peer Review. This comprehensive report explores trends in reviewer behavior, perceptions, and fatigue, while also imagining how AI and...
Platform Strategies is Silverchair's exclusive industry event delivering opportunities for scholarly and professional publishing leaders to learn, network, and share their thoughts on the technology and strategy trends shaping the...
Spring conference season has a particular rhythm in scholarly publishing: a stretch of weeks where the industry convenes across multiple cities and continents, and the accumulated intelligence of all those...
Scientific editors are overwhelmed. Manuscript volumes are skyrocketing and overall quality is dropping as AI helps with slop, pseudoscience, and paper mill outputs. Editorial triage has become an exhausting, manual...
Over the past several months, we've been on a listening tour. Through 34 in-depth interviews totaling more than 14 hours of conversation, we sat down with editors across 20+ publishers to understand...
This guest post is authored by Dryad, a partner in the Silverchair Universe program. A conversation with Dr. Natasha McDonald, Director, Peer Review at Canadian Science Publishing When the non-profit scholarly publisher...
Earlier this week, our CTO Stuart Leitch looked at how agentic AI systems are transitioning from optional tools to essential infrastructure. Below, I dig into the practical realities of this...
Silverchair was proud to be a silver sponsor of the 10th International Congress on Peer Review, held earlier this month in Chicago. The research-focused conference highlighted several critical challenges facing...
We're pleased to announce the first annual report on the Future of Peer Review. This comprehensive report explores trends in reviewer behavior, perceptions, and fatigue, while also imagining how AI and...
(Charlottesville, VA) May 27, 2025 – Silverchair has announced the expansion of our successful AI Playground (first launched in May 2024) to ScholarOne Manuscripts. The ScholarOne AI Playground has been...
(Charlottesville, VA) May 20, 2025 – Silverchair has announced a strategic partnership with Cactus Communications (CACTUS), a leader in AI-powered solutions for the scholarly publishing ecosystem. This collaboration is focused on...
Strategic Partnership Brings AI-Powered Peer Review Support for Publishers' Submission Workflows (Charlottesville, VA) March 25, 2025 - Silverchair and Hum have announced a strategic partnership that integrates Hum's recently launched Alchemist...
The Combined Entity Will Offer Unparalleled Services & Independent Partnership to the Publishing Community (Charlottesville, VA) October 28, 2024 – Silverchair, the leading independent hosting platform partner for scholarly and professional...
It's impossible to write a report on trends in any industry and not mention AI. The recent acceleration of both its availability and its capabilities means it has potential applications...