Prophy to Moderate “Publishing 3.0” Discussion at the 48th SSP Annual Meeting

The future of scholarly publishing is not a subject academic publishers can afford to observe from a distance. The conventions governing how research is published, evaluated, and read have remained broadly stable for decades—but the conditions sustaining them are changing faster than at any point in recent memory.

At the 48th SSP Annual Meeting, Prophy CEO & Co-Founder Oleg Ruchayskiy will moderate Publishing 3.0: How We Will Publish, Read, and Review Next—a featured session exploring the next generation of scholarly communication infrastructure.

The panel brings together leaders from arXiv, UC Berkeley, and Reviewer3 to examine how publishing workflows are evolving beyond traditional journal models toward more open, transparent, AI-assisted, and continuous systems of scientific evaluation.

Why “Publishing 3.0” Matters

For decades, scholarly publishing has relied on a stable institutional structure: journals controlled dissemination, peer review served as the central mechanism of validation, and PDFs became the dominant format for scientific communication.

That model is now under pressure from multiple directions simultaneously:

• AI-assisted manuscript generation and review
• Reviewer fatigue and growing submission volume
• Open science mandates and preprint adoption
• Demand for greater transparency in peer review
• New infrastructure for research discovery and validation

The result is a fundamental industry-wide question:

What should scholarly publishing look like when dissemination, certification, and evaluation no longer happen in the same place or at the same speed?

The SSP session will address how publishers, researchers, and infrastructure providers are responding to that shift.

Session Focus: The Future of Peer Review and Research Validation

The discussion will explore several of the most urgent issues in academic publishing today, including:

• The future of peer review in AI-assisted publishing environments
• Research integrity and scientific trust at scale
• Open and transparent review models
• Continuous and modular publishing workflows
• AI infrastructure for manuscript evaluation
• The changing role of journals in scientific authority
• Machine-readable publishing formats and research discovery

The session reflects a broader transformation taking place across scholarly communication: the move from static publishing workflows toward dynamic, interoperable research ecosystems.

Featured Speakers

Steinn Sigurðsson — Scientific Director, arXiv

As one of the world’s most influential research dissemination platforms, arXiv fundamentally changed how scientific work is shared. The discussion will examine what arXiv’s evolution reveals about the separation of dissemination and certification in scholarly communication.

Stefano M. Bertozzi — Editor-in-Chief, Rapid Reviews Infectious Diseases (MIT Press)

Rapid Reviews Infectious Diseases has become a major case study in transparent and accelerated peer review. Bertozzi brings experience from UC Berkeley, WHO, UNAIDS, and global public health leadership.

Natalie Khalil — CEO & Co-Founder, Reviewer3

Reviewer3 is developing AI-assisted manuscript review systems designed to support structured scientific evaluation and reduce pressure on editorial workflows.

About the Moderator

Oleg Ruchayskiy is CEO & Co-Founder of Prophy and Professor at the University of Copenhagen, where he leads research in particle physics and artificial intelligence in physics. Under his leadership, Prophy has developed a research intelligence platform indexing more than 192 million academic publications and 97 million researcher profiles, supporting publisher workflows across peer review, reviewer discovery, and research monitoring.

Attend Session 4D at SSP 2026

Session 4D Publishing 3.0: How We Will Publish, Read, and Review Next takes place on Friday, May 29, 2026, 11:00 AM–12:00 PM Pacific, at the Gaylord Pacific Resort & Convention Center, Chula Vista, California.

If you are attending SSP 48, we encourage you to join the discussion. The session is part of the concurrent education programme and is open to all registered attendees.

If you are not attending in person, the same questions will be examined the day before in our free online panel — Prophy Predicts: Future of Scholarly Content, Thursday May 28. Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Pdn4sh8GR9K0_75jF49W5g

And if you would like to understand how Prophy's research intelligence platform supports publishers navigating these transitions, request a demo at prophy.ai.