The scientific journal Nature wants to show people the nitty gritty of academic publishing. In a Monday editorial, the journal announced it would include peer review files with the papers it publishes ...

Large language models such as ChatGPT are boosting paper production, particularly for scientists who are not native English ...

Traditionally, scientific publishing happened behind the scenes, with only the final product of a new scientific article shared with the research community at the end of the process. The efforts of ...

Thousands of scientific papers are retracted every year because of fraudulent activity, with both authors and journals gaming a system to gain academic acclaim through deceit, dishonesty and false ...

SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS exist to do one thing: provide accurate, peer-reviewed reports of new research to an interested audience. But according to a paper published in PNAS on August 4th, that lofty goal ...

Jonathan Wosen is STAT’s West Coast biotech & life sciences reporter. You can reach Jonathan on Signal at jwosen.27. In a stark sign of scientists’ escalating frustration with how academic journals ...

There’s a controversy brewing over “AI-generated” studies submitted to this year’s ICLR, a long-running academic conference focused on AI. Sakana informed ICLR leaders before it submitted its ...

Some requests by reviewers to cite their own publications are coercive and can unnecessarily delay indexation and publication.

Associate Professor and MTP Connect REDI Industry Fellow, University of Technology Sydney When scientists make important discoveries, both big and small, they typically publish their findings in ...

What is transparent peer review? All primary research papers published in Nature Communications that are submitted from November 1 st, 2022 will have a corresponding peer review file containing the ...

A collage shows a red X over a person in a chemistry lab conducting an experiment. Credit: Madeline Monroe/C&EN/Shutterstock More than 20% of chemistry researchers ...