Alison Hoens
@physioktbroker.bsky.social
Clinical Professor, Knowledge Broker, Physical Therapist, Knowledge mobilization specialist
Preprints - should they be cited? 🧪 arxiv.org/abs/2607.25220
Preprints Without Curation Are Increasingly Cited by Journals
The recent strain on peer review systems necessitates the publish-review-curate model, where the public dissemination of manuscripts is decoupled from formal peer review and later editorial processes....
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What are the advantages and disadvantages of non-native English speaking authors using AI to help with manuscript preparation? 🧪 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
<fc>AI</fc> In Academic Publishing for Non‐Native English Speakers: The Good, the Bot, and the Ugly
This exploratory study investigated the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) tools on academic publishing for non-native English-speaking researchers. Through a mixed-methods convergent parallel de...
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Deimplementation / discontinuation trials 🧪 jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Deescalation, Discontinuation, and Deimplementation Trials
Deescalation, discontinuation, and deimplementation trials have emerged in multiple health care contexts in which interventions are suspected of being inappropriately used, applied beyond their eviden...
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Patient and public engagement in healthcare research “Over 25 years, PPI reporting in original health research articles published in general medical journals increased on average, 15% per year” 🧪 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Trends in patient and public involvement in health research 2000–2024 - Research Involvement and Engagement
Objectives Public involvement in health research has been defined as research carried out ‘with’ or ‘by’ members of the public, rather than ‘to’, ‘about’, or ‘for’ them. We examined trends in patient ...
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“In STEM fields, women first and last authors make fewer novelty claims than men, and this is associated with fewer citations.” 🧪 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
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Peer review - why is there discrepancy between reviewers? “ … research assessment is driven more by differences between evaluators than by difference in the evaluated research”. 🧪 arxiv.org/abs/2607.09783
Judges matter more than papers in post-publication research assessment
Research assessment relies on expert evaluations, yet human judgement is noisy, and it is unclear whether differences in assessment arise primarily from differences in genuine research quality or from...
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A perspective on enabling access to scientific literature for AI training “Research influence may increasingly depend not only on citations and downloads, but also on whether ideas are surfaced, synthesized, and operationalized within AI systems” 🧪 cacm.acm.org/opinion/now-...
Now Is the Time to Give LLMs Access to the ACM Digital Library – Communications of the ACM
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How much change is there from preprints? “The primary claim was unchanged in 39.9% of abstracts, minorly revised in 50.0%, and substantially revised in only 10.2%” 🧪 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Tracking claim changes from preprint to publication across 72,644 biomedical studies using large language models
Preprints now disseminate a large share of biomedical research before peer review. Because they have not yet passed peer review, some scientists regard preprint claims as unverified or potentially unr...
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“Suspected paper mill articles received 50 to 100% more citations than other papers 1 to 3 years after publication, while paradoxically attracting fewer readers and online accesses.” 🧪https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.25.727627v1
Suspected distortion of citations in high-impact cancer journals
Research and scholarship are shaped by article citations, which underpin the communication of ideas, assignment of credit, journal impact factors, and author career progression. Given their key influe...
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“women who submit resumes created with AI assistance are evaluated as less competent and less trustworthy than men who submit identical AI-assisted resumes” 🧪 www.forbes.com/sites/michel...
Women Who Use AI Seen As Incompetent; Men Who Use AI Seen As Pragmatic
A 2026 study found that when women and men use AI tools to create identical resumes, evaluators view the women as less competent, while crediting the men with initiative.
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Paying journal articles reviewers results in faster and higher quality reviews 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Why paying peer reviewers works, according to a journal’s editor-in-chief
A biology journal that paid peer reviewers found that the approach cut the time to a first editorial decision by 85% and maintained high-quality reviews.
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Relying on journal impact factor for an article is likely unwise 🧪 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Beyond impact factor: citation skew and article-level influence in sleep medicine journals - Sleep and Breathing
Objective Citation skew refers to the unequal distribution of citations to articles within a journal. The study aimed to assess citation skew in sleep science journals and whether the journal impact f...
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Is the human brain designed to cope with ongoing bad news? “Problematic News Consumption (PNC) — a pattern of news engagement that results in preoccupation, dysregulation and disruption to daily functioning”🧪 www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
Your brain was never designed for this much bad news
Humans evolved to pay close attention to danger, but today that instinct is being overwhelmed by an endless supply of bad news from around the world. Researchers say the answer isn’t to stop following...
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AI bots - dramatic increase in proportion of online traffic 🧪https://www.forbes.com/sites/josipamajic/2026/06/04/bots-now-outnumber-humans-online-and-the-internet-was-never-built-for-this/
Bots Now Outnumber Humans Online And The Internet Was Never Built For This
Bot traffic has surpassed humans on the Internet. The winners in the next infrastructure cycle are the companies building trust rails for machines: agent identity, intent verification, API-native cont...
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Journals providing variable guidance re use of AI 🧪 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42241773/
Editorial policies for ethical use of artificial intelligence in rheumatology journals - PubMed
Indexed rheumatology journals demonstrate variable editorial policies of enforcing AI guidance. While the adoption of AI-related policies is mostly improving, a marked heterogeneity still exists, part...
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Update - proportion of first and last authorship who are women 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
First and last authors more likely to be men in leading science journals
Women’s participation in science has risen sharply, but a Nature Index analysis finds that gender gaps in first and last authorship — markers of key scientific achievements — have barely shifted over ...
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Supporting patient leadership for patient -led conferences: analysis and recommendations 🧪 bmjopen.bmj.com/content/16/6...
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JointHealth™ express - ACE Research Featured at #EULAR2026: Understanding Patient Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence in Arthritis Care. Visit Ellen Wang, ACE's Programs Coordinator on June 6 at Poster View VIII to learn more or read here: bit.ly/ACEArtificia... @eular.org #AI #ACESurvey
ACE Research Featured at EULAR 2026: Understanding Patient Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence in Arthritis Care - Arthritis News
Research from ACE’s 2025 National Survey on AI and Arthritis Care will be presented at the European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology (EULAR) 2026 Congress in London, England.
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Nature-based interventions improve health 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A systematic overview and second-order meta-analysis of nature-based interventions for stress, anxiety and depression - Nature Human Behaviour
This systematic overview and second-order meta-analysis shows that nature-based interventions effectively reduce anxiety and depression while enhancing relaxation and positive affect.
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AI best practices for authors - many of these are likely relevant to scientific writing 🧪 authorsguild.org/resource/ai-...
AI Best Practices for Authors - The Authors Guild
Generative AI has become a ubiquitous technology, and some writers are already using it in various ways to assist in the writing process. Many people have turned to AI to draft things like emails, sli...
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Peer Review 🧪”The global reviewer pool grew 54% between 2018 & 2025. .. but ..the rate at which those reviewers accept invitations has fallen sharply. It now takes editors an average of 4.5 invitations to secure a single review, nearly double the rate from 2018”. www.silverchair.com/news/the-num...
The Numbers Behind the Noise: What Our 2026 Peer Review Report Shows - Silverchair
The 2026 Future of Peer Review Report doesn't accept the crisis narrative at face value. Here's what the evidence actually shows.
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Nature’s health benefits 🧪https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-026-02433-4
A systematic overview and second-order meta-analysis of nature-based interventions for stress, anxiety and depression - Nature Human Behaviour
This systematic overview and second-order meta-analysis shows that nature-based interventions effectively reduce anxiety and depression while enhancing relaxation and positive affect.
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Using social media to disseminate science - wht its important and how to do it well 🧪 academic.oup.com/academicmedi...
From publication to Dissemination: Using Social Media to Extend Scholarly Reach and Impact
Abstract. In academic medicine, publication has often been treated as the endpoint of scholarship. In today’s crowded digital environment, however, publica
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Leveraging LLMs for manuscript preparation by scientists for whom English is not their first language 🧪 jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Scientific Writing, Generative AI, and the Non–Native English Speaker
This Viewpoint explores whether the utility artificial intelligence (AI) tools for non-native English researchers may compromise the epistemic accuracy of scientific writing.
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Tough peer-review process? Your paper might end up being more highly cited 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Tough peer-review process? Your paper might end up being more highly cited
An AI-led analysis of publicly available peer-review reports links requests for major revisions with papers that end up having high impact.
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Proposing an “ethically-guided hybrid peer review system that integrates generative artificial intelligence with human expertise while addressing fundamental shortcomings of current review processes” 🧪 www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
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How are preprint servers and open science platforms affecting the scientific process? 🧪 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The Preprint Problem: Fringe, Genetically Informed Studies of Group Differences in Behavior Housed on Open Science Platforms - Behavior Genetics
Preprint servers and open science platforms have revolutionized the scientific process. A fundamental feature of these platforms is a lack of peer review—virtually anyone with an internet connection c...
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Are website adaptations for AI being supported more than those for disability? “When the audience is AI, accommodation is offered with a wink. .. But when the audience is a disabled person, it it has historically been treated as an afterthought” 🧪 techpolicy.press/the-web-is-b...
The Web Is Being Made Accessible for AI, Not People
Jonathan Zong and Frank Elavsky critique how AI-driven infrastructure changes obscure accessibility and reveal whose needs society chooses to prioritize.
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Sleep deprivation - beneficial health effects of catching up on sleep on the weekend is great news 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Acute sleep rebound following sleep restriction is associated with reduced mortality risk - Nature Communications
Existing research primarily focuses on average sleep duration, overlooking dynamic sleep patterns in real-world settings. Here, the authors show that acute sleep rebound following sleep restriction is...
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