Peer review has met its match.

Signs of trouble are turning up at the biggest scientific journals and the publishers that host them. In December, nearly ...

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is pleased to announce its partnership with Research Networks to publish Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, ...

Editors at scientific journals are quitting in droves. According to Retraction Watch, a watchdog publication, there have been at least 20 mass resignations since 2023. So, what’s going on? If you look ...

The Trump administration’s attack on scientific institutions has been characteristically audacious: Eliminating the U.S. Agency for International Development, which funded healthcare interventions and ...

Publishers often charge authors to publish their publicly-funded research. Will a federal crackdown make a difference?

Don’t worry—the rat dck can no longer hurt you. The open-access paper that contained bizarre, AI-generated imagery of rat genitalia and gibberish graphics has been retracted by its publisher, which ...

The Science Partner Journal (SPJ) program is pleased to announce the inclusion of five SPJs in the 2023 Journal Citation Reports (JCR) from Clarivate. Research, launched in 2018, received its second ...

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 ...

The Dr. Rafael M. Moscoso National Botanical Garden (JBN) has released Volume 22 of the Moscosoa Scientific Journal, its ...