Artificial intelligence-driven scholarly journal publishing: A new milestone in the modernization of science
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: The origins of academic journal publishing date back to 1665 with the founding of Philosophical Transactions by the Royal Society of London, [1] a history of approximately 360 years.Over time, academic journals have become the most established and effective medium for disseminating and sharing scholarly achievements.They provide researchers with essential resources to acquire knowledge, follow advancements, and track the frontiers of their fields.They also serve as platforms for publishing scientific findings, quality assessments, and ensuring intellectual property rights, as well as fostering the widespread dissemination and timely transformation of scientific discoveries into real-world applications.Over this 360-year journey, the academic journal publishing industry has mirrored the evolution of other societal and industrial activities worldwide, undergoing a "modernization process" characterized by transitions from traditional to modern, simple to complex, slow to efficient, and dispersed to centralized.This process began with a cottage-industry organizational model and can broadly be divided into the stages of industrialization, informatization, digitization, integration, and the current stage: intelligence.
Source: Editing Practice
Author: Zheng Ma
Institution: Chinese Academy of Sciences
Language: English
Subfield: History and Philosophy of Science
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4405951815