Reimagine Peer Review with KGL Smart Review®

The peer review process is facing mounting challenges, including rising submission volumes, compliance with open data mandates, and combating unethical actors like paper mills and citation cartels. Smart Review, KGL’s efficient, user-friendly platform, is a new AI-driven tool that empowers the administration, accuracy, speed, and integrity of peer review. Now publishers can automate submission checks and fraud detection, as well as track turnaround times across multiple journals in real time in a unified environment integrated with major manuscript platforms and research integrity services. Join industry experts and visionaries from KGL, integration partners, and peer review leaders as they discuss how AI-driven automation is reimagining manual processes and reliability in research evaluation. Panelists will share real-world insights on reducing turnaround times, enhancing journal oversight, detecting research misconduct, ensuring reproducibility, and maintaining the highest ethical standards in publishing. This session is essential for publishers, editors, and technology professionals seeking to stay ahead in the evolving world of academic peer review. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn how KGL’s unique combination of human expertise, intelligent automation, and third-party integrations is paving the way for a more efficient and secure ecosystem for scholarly publishers.

Publication Date

May 2025

47th Annual Meeting (2025)

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Although every year in the scholarly publishing ecosystem is a balancing act of innovation, optimization, and value creation, 2025 is shaping up to be particularly challenging as the pace and scale of change is accelerating more than we’ve ever seen before. There is increasing pressure to provide value to and to meet the incredibly diverse needs of the global research community while maintaining financial health for our own organizations, living our values, and continuing to protect the scholarly record. With AI, open access, integrity, and mistrust frequently dominating the conversation, we are in the midst of an unprecedented shift in both our industry and society as a whole. As always, the SSP community continues to focus on bringing together academics, funders, librarians, publishers, service providers, technologists, researchers and countless others with a communal interest and stake in disseminating scholarly information. We look to the 47th Annual Meeting as an opportunity to continue this tradition and welcome all colleagues and community stakeholders.

Adam Day

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CEO & Founder, Clear Skies

Adam Day is the CEO and Founder of Clear Skies. Clear Skies offers the Papermill Alarm: the industry’s leading in papermill detection service. The Papermill Alarm became the first service dedicated to papermill detection in 2021 and was winner of the 2024 ALPSP Award for innovation in publishing. Adam has extensive editorial and data science experience in the publishing industry having worked for IOP Publishing and Sage prior to founding Clear Skies. Adam earned a Bachelor of Science with Honours in Physics from the University of Glasgow. He runs a popular blog on Medium under the handle “clearskiesadam”.

Alexandra Kahler

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Director, KGL Editorial, KnowledgeWorks Global Ltd.

As the head of KGL Editorial, Alex works with our esteemed customers and talented staff to create editorial solutions that achieve their goals and exceed their expectations. She participates extensively in professional societies and has held progressively responsible positions within KGL Editorial for the past decade, providing leadership in remote workforce management, team development, process improvement, and workflow efficiency. She also developed our single and multi-journal KGL Editorial Dashboards, supporting efficient task management tailored to each client’s needs and enabling at-a-glance oversight ensuring the highest level of service to every customer. Prior to joining KGL Editorial, Alex managed professional development for science educators, and began her career at the National Institutes of Health as a Howard Hughes Research Fellow studying microbial genetics. She holds a BS with honors in cell biology and molecular genetics from the University of Maryland, College Park.

Tim Vines

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Founder & CEO, DataSeer

Tim Vines is the Founder and CEO at DataSeer. Prior to that he founded Axios Review, an independent peer review company that helped authors find journals that wanted their paper. He was the Managing Editor for the journal Molecular Ecology for eight years, where he led their adoption of data sharing and numerous other initiatives. He writes for the industry-leading Scholarly Kitchen blog, and has published research papers on peer review, data sharing, and reproducibility (including one that was covered by Vanity Fair). He has a PhD in evolutionary ecology from the University of Edinburgh and now lives in Vancouver, Canada.