Signs of trouble are turning up at the biggest scientific journals and the publishers that host them. In December, nearly every member of the editorial board of the pre-eminent Journal of Human ...

New research reveals organized networks linking paper mills, intermediaries, and compromised academic journals ...

An open access scientific journal, Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, was openly criticized and mocked by researchers on social media this week after they observed the publication had ...

Science is entering a massive publishing boom, in large part due to artificial intelligence. New research published in the journal Science has revealed that scientists who use large language models ...

Scientific fraud is becoming a larger issue. Thousands of fake scientific papers have flooded journals and have subsequently had to be retracted. Much of this is the work of paper mills, which submit ...

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

The science and medical journals have become highly ideological on many of the most important and contentious societal issues of the day, ranging from global warming to gender ideology, to critical ...

A body of water surrounded by craggy rocks. The “arsenic life” microbe came from Mono Lake, a highly alkaline, arsenic-rich body of water in California. Credit: Al Ungar/Shutterstock In the retraction ...

Academic articles in science are criticized for being impenetrable to the average adult reader, let alone child. The journal Frontiers for Young Minds (FYM) was launched in 2013 to help bridge that ...

Science, a top research journal, said there was no evidence of misconduct by researchers whose finding attracted heavy attention and scrutiny in social media’s early days. By Sarah Scoles Sarah Scoles ...

A controversial 2010 study that suggested bacteria could grow using arsenic instead of phosphorus has been retracted by the research journal Science. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

The first published science journal, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, was published in 1667 and consisted mostly of letters and brief dispatches.Credit...Album/British Library, via ...