After the Wow: Building Reliability in <scp>GenAI</scp> ‐Era Scholarly Publishing

Summary In scholarly publishing, the main challenge introduced by GenAI is not only text generation, but whether reliability can be built into publishing workflows. Scholarly credibility depends on verification signals that travel across manuscripts, metadata, indexing and reuse. Retraction checks and GenAI‐use records should become embedded, structured, auditable and machine‐readable. Reliability routines require visible validation labour and assessment systems that reward transparency.