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Largest illegal database of scientific papers has gaps in recently published literature, but its chatbot can still prove useful—especially for less-timely questions
The preprint movement, once seen as a pragmatic, low-cost, researcher-driven route to openness, now faces its own moment of uncertainty.
An additional layer of quality control could help academic publishers weed out problematic content before it propagates.
Advances in agentic AI combined with increasingly large reserves of openly accessibly and machine-readable data are creating a perfect storm for the mass-production of AI authored research papers.
This post is an urgent call to push back against global trends in academic censorship and threats to free speech in scholarly communications.
What would it mean to support community-led publishing as infrastructure, rather than as a collection of heroic individual efforts?
A study of millions of life science papers revealed that manuscripts with women in key authorship roles spent longer between submission and acceptance.
The pandemic showed the benefits of a system based around reviewing preprints. Why was eLife the only journal to respond, asks Damian Pattinson.
Some scientists say many detections are most likely error, with one high-profile study called a ‘joke’.
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine A researcher accused of falsifying research in work funded by the National Institutes of Health has cost Northwestern University $2.3 million.
Open access has expanded research visibility, but rising information overload, fragile trust, and uneven credibility signals show that access alone isn’t enough. The next chapter must focus on transparency and trust.
"Enshittification" isn’t just confined to the online world. In fact, it’s now visible in academic publishing and occurs in five stages. The same forces that hollow out digital platforms are shaping how a lot of research is produced, reviewed and published.
The current relationship between researchers, funders and commercial publishers has created a “drain” – depriving the research system of money, time, trust and control.
