A lawsuit recently filed by scientists against six major academic journal publishers shines a spotlight on a long-standing issue that echoes the broader problems in academia itself: an excessive ...

There are many valid reasons for an academic journal to reject a scientific paper, but concerns over the political implications of its findings aren’t among them. Yet that’s what happened to Theodore ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am Distinguished Professor of Economics Emeritus at Ohio University. In an earlier era, say 1960, faculty at most universities ...

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College professors teach young adults, who require a different approach than children. Learn more in this Academic Update feature article. A recent Global Academic Champion Forum hosted by AICPA & ...

Can a 115-year-old dog learn new tricks? In April 1906, the neurologist Morton Prince published the first issue of the Journal of Abnormal Psychology. At the time, modern psychology was still emerging ...

In its August edition, Resources Policy, an academic journal under the Elsevier publishing umbrella, featured a peer-reviewed study about how ecommerce has affected fossil fuel efficiency in ...

Academic publishing is a strange phenomenon, one that normal people—who might assume, for instance, that people generally get paid for doing what they do professionally—often misunderstand. Back in ...

Setbacks in student achievement resulting from school shutdowns between 2020 and 2022 promise to be a pressing issue for some time to come. The good news: Research shows some effective ways to ...