Publishing in scholarly journals is a critical driver of tenure and promotion decisions, often making or breaking professors’ careers. Furthermore, these scholarly publications can have a profound ...

It is law review submission season, so I have had many conversations lately both on and off of social media about the student-run law review system. This recent poll by Professor Derek Muller was ...

The US National Institutes of Health will soon release a plan to cap academic-journal publishing fees. The caps are a response to rising costs for publishing the results of NIH-funded research. Some ...

Social science journals have had a rough go of it over the past few months. A recent, extensive examination of social science papers found that only about half of previously published studies ...

The data paper is becoming a popular way for researchers to publish their research data. The growing numbers of data papers and journals hosting them have made them an important data source for ...

In 2018, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) won a US$50-million ruling against the publisher OMICS for deceptive business practices. The FTC’s investigation found that OMICS accepted and published ...

In December 2024, the editorial board of the Journal of Human Evolution resigned en masse following disagreements with the journal’s publisher, Elsevier. The board’s grievances included claims of ...