The peer review process is central to science – but it can be easily manipulated. Improving it is vital to uphold research integrity.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has canceled nearly 400 of the National Agricultural Library’s roughly 2,000 journal ...

Some scientists say the for-profit industry’s fast growth makes it harder to police fraud and low-quality work.

Journal indexation cannot be the only appraisal of research performance. The evaluation system must prioritize impact-focused ...

German anesthesiologist Joachim Boldt has an unfortunate claim to fame. According to Retraction Watch, a public database of ...

And in 2020, James Heathers, a scientific sleuth, launched the 450 Movement, a call for journals to pay researchers $450 for peer reviewing a paper. His efforts, which were cited in the lawsuit ...

Authoritative, intelligent, responsible, serious—if you were asked to describe the general figure of a scientist, you would ...

The study addresses a critical issue in modern academia: the inefficiency of traditional publishing methods in an era of information overload. Researchers often struggle to keep up with the vast ...

The Biodiversity Data Journal (BDJ) portal is now available on the Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) platform, ...

Due to the rapid rise and impact of artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as ChatGPT, ClaudeAI, and DeepSeek over the past several years, the National Academies’ Forum on Neuroscience and Nervous ...