Unveiling the Future: Ten Game-Changing Priorities Reshaping Scholarly Publishing by 2027
5. Make metadata part of the trust infrastructure
A trustworthy research object should remain connected to its contributors, institutions, funders, data, references, versions, and subsequent corrections. Those relationships must travel beyond the publisher’s website. Crossref and DataCite’s 2026 guide identifies metadata that helps people assess research integrity, including contributor roles, funding, versioning, retractions, licences, and links among research outputs. Publishers should improve both the completeness of their records and the speed at which updates reach discovery tools.
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