From fraudulent research coming out of paper mills, to data fabrication showing up in published papers, academic journals ...

Iconic Reefs (M:IR) provided critical context for a new research paper published in Science that reports the functional ...

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 ...

I n July, the National Institutes of Health announced that it would cap excessive article-processing charges (APCs) for publishing taxpayer-funded research. The NIH is exploring a handful of different ...

When a group of researchers at Northwestern University uncovered evidence of widespread—and growing—research fraud in scientific publishing, editors at some academic journals weren’t exactly rushing ...

ArXiv, a popular platform for sharing research before it’s been peer-reviewed, now says it’ll only publish computer science review articles and position papers that’ve been peer-reviewed and accepted ...

Science is built, enhanced, and developed through the open and structured sharing of knowledge. Yet some publishers charge so much for subscriptions to their academic journals that even the libraries ...

The aphorism “information wants to be free,” coined by entrepreneur Stewart Brand in 1984 at the inaugural Hackers Conference, has come to serve as a shorthand justification for an ideology that would ...

Over the past year, three scholars have been engaged in a massive, and massively secret, academic project. Working with documentary filmmaker Mike Nayna, three academics—Helen Pluckrose, an English ...