23 Jun The Peer Review Time Capsule
Peer review has existed for roughly 360 years. In that time, it was reformed, digitized, expanded, and declared in crisis so many times that the reforms and the crises have...
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19 May The Numbers Behind the Noise: What Our 2026 Peer Review Report Shows
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...
19 May REPORT: 2026 Future of Peer Review
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...
12 May Platform Strategies 2026: September 23 in DC
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...
28 Apr Out and About: Notes from a Busy Spring Conference Season
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...
09 Mar Silverchair & Hum Expand Universe Partnership, Bringing Full Alchemist Review Intelligence to ScholarOne Manuscripts
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...
24 Feb Listening to Editors: What 34 Conversations Taught Us About the Future of Peer Review
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...
17 Nov Canadian Science Publishing ramps up Open Data requirements
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...
17 Sep The Future of AI-Enhanced Peer Review
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...
16 Sep Recap: 2025 Peer Review Congress
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...
03 Sep REPORT: 2025 Future of Peer Review
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...
27 May Silverchair Expands AI Playground to ScholarOne Manuscripts
(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...
20 May Cactus Communications and Silverchair collaborate to elevate research integrity and streamline editorial workflows
(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...
25 Mar Silverchair & Hum Announce Alchemist Review & ScholarOne Manuscripts Partnership
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...
28 Oct Silverchair to Acquire ScholarOne from Clarivate to Expand Investment & Innovation in Critical Publishing Technology
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...
01 Feb How AI Will Transform Scholarly Publishing
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...