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STM Trends captures the most impactful changes in research and publishing in a single themed image.</p> </div> </section> <section class="flex__general_content_area flex_general_content_area__columns-1 flex_general_content_area__columnstyle---no-sidebar sidebar"> <div class="flex__general_content_area-inner"> <div class="block__heading"> <h2>The making of Trends 2028 </h2> <div class="block__heading-divider"></div> </div> <p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Each spring, the scholarly publishing sector looks forward to the release of STM Trends, which provides a thematic </strong><strong>representation of the major advancements in research and publishing — as they exist in the future.</strong></p> <h4><span lang="en-US">See <a title="Original URL: https://stm-assoc.org/what-we-do/strategic-areas/standards-technology/stm-trends/about-the-trends/. 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We see a blended workforce with humans and machines working together to advance trusted research, building a vast network of knowledge that links articles to research data, experiments to code, authors to institutes and funders, and scholarly works to podcasts. Content is produced and consumed by both humans and machines, traditional peer-review is supplemented by automated checks, and trust is a quality that flows between nodes in the scholarly network.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But this future is not a technical utopia: Papermills and pirates attempt to exploit technology for their own gain, and fissures appear in the global scholarly network. And, for some, the world has just become too complex and it’s time to go back to basics. In this hyper-complex system, how do we ensure accountability, transparency, ethics, and equity? How do we preserve the Human Factor?</span></p> <p><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="aligncenter wp-image-19026" src="https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/stm.offloadmedia/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/10025634/Tech_Trends_28_v7_160424-1024x578.png" alt="" width="900" height="508" srcset="https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/stm.offloadmedia/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/10025634/Tech_Trends_28_v7_160424-1024x578.png 1024w, https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/stm.offloadmedia/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/10025634/Tech_Trends_28_v7_160424-300x169.png 300w, https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/stm.offloadmedia/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/10025634/Tech_Trends_28_v7_160424-768x433.png 768w, https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/stm.offloadmedia/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/10025634/Tech_Trends_28_v7_160424-1536x867.png 1536w, https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/stm.offloadmedia/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/10025634/Tech_Trends_28_v7_160424-2048x1156.png 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px" /></p> <p><a href="https://www.stm-assoc.org/wp-content/uploads/Tech_Trends_28_v7_160424.png" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Download Trends 2028.</span></a></p> </div> </section> <section class="flex__general_content_area flex_general_content_area__columns-1 flex_general_content_area__columnstyle---no-sidebar sidebar"> <div class="flex__general_content_area-inner"> <div class="block__heading"> <h2>Three main strands</h2> <div class="block__heading-divider"></div> </div> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Central to this theme are three main tenets — <strong>key factors that underpin this year’s story.</strong> </span></p> </div> </section> <section class="flex__grid_callouts style-b"> <div class="flex__grid_callouts_grid columns-3"> <div class="grid__item --clickable-block style-purple" > <div> <h3>Humans and Machines</h3> <div class="grid__callout_description"><p>The rise of generative AI marks a new chapter in the ongoing narrative of technology’s impact on research and scholarly communication, introducing unprecedented questions, possibilities, and challenges. How will humans and machines work alongside each other to curate the scholarly record in 2028? Will AI be weaponized to pollute the scholarly record and fan the flames of disinformation? Or will AI help us to bring trusted research into the hands of the public and policy-makers?</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="grid__item --clickable-block style-purple" > <div> <h3>Sources of Truth & Trust</h3> <div class="grid__callout_description"><p>In a world where humans and machines build and interact with the scholarly record in many different processes and novel workflows — how do we know what is real and what’s been fabricated? What can be trusted? Who can be trusted? This year’s Trends explores these questions in a world where traditional peer-review is supplemented by automated checks — and trust is a quality that flows between nodes in an ever-evolving scholarly network.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="grid__item --clickable-block style-purple" > <div> <h3>Cohesion</h3> <div class="grid__callout_description"><p>The highly complex, networked future that is envisioned in this year’s STM Trends is not a naïve technological utopia. Paper mills and other actors will find clever ways to apply technology for personal gain, introducing misinformation and disinformation that fuel mistrust in science. Looking at the world around us, geopolitical tensions will also have an impact on the research enterprise, risking fragmentation. 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