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SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHING has long been a money-printing operation, with many big publishing houses reporting profit margins of between 30% and 40% year after year. The long-standing business model is ...

When writer Cory Doctorow introduced the term enshittification in 2023, he captured a pattern many users had already noticed in their personal lives. The social media platforms, e-commerce sites and ...

A few weeks ago, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health and human services secretary, made a bold proclamation during a podcast appearance: “We’re probably going to stop publishing in The Lancet, New ...

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 ...

Flawed scientific articles don’t just clutter journals — they misguide policies, waste taxpayer funds, and endanger lives. Errors in top-tier research persist due to a broken correction system.

While developing his theory of natural selection, Charles Darwin was horrified by a group of wasps that lay their eggs within the bodies of caterpillars, with the larvae eating their hosts alive from ...

Companies are launching to create tools that detect shoddy scientific papers. Their target audience is academic publishers, which are in an arms race with purveyors of fake science. Such tools will ...

Since the mid-1600's, researchers and scientists have shared their discoveries by publishing articles in scientific journals. Knowledge-sharing in this way allowed the scientific community to discover ...

Faculty and staff are invited to attend the Purdue Books Initiative webinar featuring World Scientific Publishing Co. at 3 p.m. April 23. World Scientific is a leading academic publisher specializing ...