Report: “Ten Simple Rules For Scholarly Blogging”

From an Upstream (Force11) Blog Post:

The fragmentation of social media and the rise of Generative Artificial intelligence (AI) have renewed the importance of scholarly blogs. Similar to preprints, blogs enable researchers to communicate ideas, preliminary findings, and emerging debates without waiting for lengthy peer-review processes. At the same time, blogs provide more space than preprints for contextualization, reflection, and a clearly identifiable scholarly voice.

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Scholarly blogs provide a more durable alternative: open, author-controlled, and searchable publishing spaces whose governance and visibility do not depend on the decisions of a single commercial platform owner. Generative AI further strengthens the case for scholarly blogging. As AI systems make it increasingly easy to produce large volumes of fluent but potentially interchangeable or unreliable text, identifiable authorship, situated expertise, and intellectual accountability become more important. Blogging also enables researchers to share insights rapidly, reach wider audiences, and contribute to ongoing academic and public debates while developing transferable skills in clear writing, public engagement, and research transfer (Blanchard, 2011). These practices can enhance researchers’ visibility and impact while contributing to a more open, transparent, and interactive research culture. Accordingly, the purpose of this article is to provide researchers with guidelines for using blogs effectively in order to communicate their work, engage audiences, and enhance the visibility and impact of their research. Therefore, in this article, we present ten simple rules for scholarly blogging that aim to support and encourage scholars to establish a blog that contributes to a more open, transparent form of scholarly communication by offering practical guidance for scholars seeking to engage more actively in this form of scholarly communication.

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by Catharina Ochsner, Heinz Pampel and Martin Fenner
DOI: 10.54900/xn57k-gyw73

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