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 ...

Long-standing criticisms of academic publishing are helping to fuel the Trump administration’s attacks on the nation’s scientific enterprise. For years, some members of the scientific community have ...

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,” ...

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 ...

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 ...

Much published science and the "knowledge" resulting from it is likely wrong and sends researchers chasing false leads. Without research integrity, we don’t know what we know, so it is incumbent on ...

Amid brewing conflict between scientists and the administration of President Donald Trump, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia sent an unusual letter this week to a scientific journal ...

The ChatGPT logo is being displayed on a smartphone screen in Athens, Greece, on January 22, 2024. (Photo illustration by Nikolas Kokovlis/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Senior Correspondent First came ...

For the first time in history, a single language dominates global scientific communication. But the actual production of knowledge continues to be a multilingual enterprise. The use of English as the ...