Anil Oza is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the NIH and health equity. You can reach him on Signal at aniloza.16. This week, at least one scientific journal has received an unexpected ...

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 ...

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 scientific journal Nature wants to show people the nitty gritty of academic publishing. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. In a ...

A major journal sees a 42% surge in AI-assisted scientific papers since late 2022. This rise coincides with a drop in writing ...

A growing tide of fake papers is flooding the scientific record and proliferating faster than current checks can rid them from the system, scientists warn. The source of the trouble is “paper mills,” ...

President Donald Trump’s nominees to lead the National Institutes of Health and the Food and Drug Administration, Jay Bhattacharya and Marty Makary, are among the editorial board members of a newly ...

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Premier wellness company and community, Herbalife, announced today that five recent research studies by its team of Quality Assurance scientists have been published ...

Science and Nature, two leading science journals, have revealed a growing problem: an alarming rise in fraudulent research papers produced by shady paper mill companies. This wave of fake studies is ...

The citations at the end of a research paper should represent a solid foundation of existing knowledge about a particular ...

The BMJ Group has retracted a study that was published last year about apple cider vinegar and weight loss. The study, which received widespread media attention at the time, claimed drinking diluted ...