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 ...

Ben Williamson of the University of Edinburgh has been tracking the phenomenon because of a very personal experience with Frankencitations. I asked him some questions about what’s going on and what he ...

Authors, editors, and publishers must assert the value of academic writing in an age of exploitative automation.

The world of scholarly communication is broken. Giant, corporate publishers with racketeering business practices and profit margins that exceed Apple’s treat life-saving research as a private ...

Peer review—the process by which academics evaluate new manuscripts involving new research—has long been a cornerstone of the academic publishing process. But are large commercial publishers ...

Critics say a directive to make federally funded research immediately free to the public could violate authors’ copyrights. It could also disrupt the $19 billion academic publishing industry. Even as ...

The web, we all thought, was going to transform academic publishing. At the very least, it would make research far more accessible, lowering the cost and expanding the reach of publications. At most, ...

A new study in *Organization Science* shows that AI tools have sharply increased academic paper submissions while reducing overall writing quality. An analysis of nearly 7,000 papers and 10,000 ...

Leading academic publishers and ethics bodies have outlined firm policies on AI in scholarly work, barring tools from authorship and requiring human accountability for all content. Minor AI assistance ...

The past year has thrown divisions in how we share and consume information into sharp focus: expertise vs. disinformation, the internet vs. traditional media, the rigor of science vs. the rumor of the ...