From the Editor’s Desk
This time of year provides an opportunity to reflect on the past and consider the path ahead.
At Integra, 2025 has been a year of momentum and meaning. We pushed boundaries through AI innovation, strengthened our commitment to editorial integrity, and deepened partnerships with organizations shaping the future of publishing and education.
Thank you for being part of our journey. We wish you a restful, hopeful, and inspiring close to the year.
– Team Integra
In This Issue
- Recognition from Great Place to Work®: Best Workplaces in IT & BPM
- Highlights from STM Innovation & Integrity Days 2025
- Research Integrity in Publishing: Key Webinar Insights
- CSE Virtual Sponsor Spotlight
- Upcoming Webinar: The Editorial Office of the Future
- Comic Series: Notes from the Editor
Integra Newsroom
We are proud to close 2025 with another important milestone. Integra has been recognized among India’s Best Workplaces in IT & BPM 2025 by Great Place to Work® India.
This recognition reflects the culture we have built together, one grounded in trust, collaboration, and innovation, where people are empowered to drive progress. To every team member, thank you for helping make Integra not only a great place to work, but also a great place to grow.
Integra has partnered with SciScore to integrate automated methods, rigor, and transparency checks into EditorialPilot, enabling earlier, more consistent assessment of methods reporting within editorial workflows.
Integra recently hosted a live panel titled Research Integrity in Action: Finding the Right Balance in Editorial Decision-Making.
Leaders from Frontiers, SAGE Publishing, the American Chemical Society, and Springer Nature shared candid perspectives and forward-looking approaches to balancing human judgment with machine intelligence.
Missed the session? The full recording is available here
What will the editorial office look like in five years, and what should it become?
Join us this January for a forward-looking session that reimagines the editorial office, where automation meets accountability and where people, not just platforms, remain at the center of trust.
We will be joined by leaders from the American Society for Nutrition, Canadian Science Publishing, and A&M Editorial Solutions for a candid discussion on building editorial workflows that are ethical, efficient, and future-ready.
On January 28, Integra will be featured in the Council of Science Editors (CSE) Virtual Sponsor Spotlight. The session will showcase EditorialPilot, Integra’s AI-powered manuscript screening tool designed to support editorial teams in managing quality, integrity, and scale.
Integra’s Vice President of Business Development for Europe, Bart Loevens, attended the STM Innovation & Integrity Days in London, where global publishers and research leaders came together to discuss the future of research integrity.
Key themes included deeper collaboration between publishers and institutions, advances in detecting image and data manipulation, and the growing role of digital identity in scholarly communication.
Insights & Ideas
In a recent article published on EditorsCafé, Ashutosh Ghildiyal, Vice President of Growth and Strategy at Integra, examines why preprints should be viewed as a structural evolution in scholarly communication rather than a threat to journals. Against the backdrop of rising integrity challenges, the article argues that preprints can improve transparency, enable earlier scrutiny, and accelerate knowledge sharing, while reinforcing the essential role of journals.
AI tools are now deeply embedded in educational practice, but their impact depends on content that is well structured and pedagogically sound. Machines can extend instruction, but they do not design it. This article examines the growing disconnect between rapidly evolving pedagogical approaches and outdated content models, and outlines what publishers can do to address it.
As AI enters everyday instruction, this blog unpacks why true innovation depends not just on delivery, but on content that’s pedagogically structured for intelligent systems to use.
In the second part of our Beyond the Page series, Ashutosh Ghildiyal, Vice President of Growth and Strategy at Integra, explores how publishers can move beyond being content providers to become ecosystem builders, designing learning experiences that are modular, connected, and future ready.
In his latest article, Bart Loevens, Vice President of Business Development for Europe at Integra, reflects on how European publishers are turning disruption into direction through stronger AI governance, open science initiatives, accessibility, and strategic collaboration.
Service Spotlight
Integra’s Digital Course Assembly service helps educators transform static content into rich, interactive learning experiences, quickly and at scale. From mapping learning outcomes to structuring modules and building platform-ready outputs, our team brings instructional design, editorial expertise, and tech integration together, so your content does more than inform. It engages.
Journal publishers working with complex STEM content know that LaTeX is not optional. It is essential. At Integra, we have expanded our end-to-end LaTeX capabilities with a fully automated LaTeX-to-XML conversion service that delivers both speed and accuracy.
From equations and references to macros and metadata, our machine-driven workflows produce structured JATS, NLM, BITS, or custom XML, ready for seamless integration into your editorial and production systems. The result is faster turnaround, reduced manual effort, and consistently high-quality outputs across formats. Built for publishers who need scale and efficiency without sacrificing precision.
In the latest episode of Notes from the Editor, Meera steps into a new role, one that goes beyond safeguarding integrity to reshaping how it is understood.
“The Reckoning” presents research integrity as a shared and evolving commitment, where transparency is a strength and vigilance becomes part of the culture. Meera emerges as a bridge between technology and trust, guiding her team with both courage and clarity.
We’d love to hear your thoughts, what topics would you like to see in The Integra Brief? Leave us a comment, drop us a note, or just say hello.
Happy Holidays from all of us at Integra! 🎄✨
Recent Newsletters
The Integra Brief | November 2025 Edition
The Integra Brief | October 2025 Edition
