Peer Review is Broken, and Pedagogical Research Has a Fix
The lessons of decades of research into assessment and feedback haven't tracked across into the practice of peer review. Why not?
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AI Will Soon Be Able to Audit All Published Research - What Will That Mean for Public Trust in Science?
AI Will Soon Be Able to Audit All Published Research - What Will That Mean for Public Trust in Science?
An AI audit of scientific research would likely expose some fraud and widespread inconsequential work. But we need to be careful it doesn't discredit science in general.
Retractions in Scientific Publishing: Why They Happen and Why They Matter
While the decision to retract is always difficult, retractions help ensure research integrity.
Quality of Scientific Papers Questioned As Academics "Overwhelmed" by the Millions Published
Quality of Scientific Papers Questioned As Academics "Overwhelmed" by the Millions Published
Widespread mockery of AI-generated rat in one paper brings problem to public attention.
Preprints and Journals: A Model Publishing Ecosystem
An inclusive view of preprints and published articles leads to a research ecosystem that is greater than the sum of the parts.
AI-mediated Translation Presents Two Possible Futures for Academic Publishing in a Multilingual World
AI-mediated Translation Presents Two Possible Futures for Academic Publishing in a Multilingual World
As the availability and performance of AI for language editing and translation continues to improve, we can imagine a future in which everyone can use their own language to write, assess and read science. The question is, how can we achieve it?
How Academics Are Pushing Back on the For-Profit Academic Publishing Industry
These scholars are fighting the rampant exploitation and high article processing charges in traditional academic publishing.
Nature Makes Transparent Peer Review Standard for New Submissions
Initiative "supports Springer Nature's broader commitment to research transparency and open sharing".
Transparent Peer Review to Be Extended to All of Nature's Research Papers
From today, all new submissions to Nature that are published will be accompanied by referees' reports and author responses - to illuminate the process of producing rigorous science.
How Language Bias Persists in Scientific Publishing Despite AI Tools
Stanford researchers highlight the ongoing challenges of language discrimination in academic publishing, revealing that AI tools may not be the solution for non-native speakers.
Authorship for Sale: Nature Investigates How Paper Mills Work
Companies selling authorship slots thrive in a culture that equates success with a strong publication record. Customers, sleuths and the shadowy owner of a paper mill explain why.
Researchers Who 'pivot' into New Fields Should Not Be Given a Citation Penalty
Researchers Who 'pivot' into New Fields Should Not Be Given a Citation Penalty
The COVID-19 pandemic showed the value of changing direction in research. It should be incentivized, encouraged and celebrated.
Between Gift-Giving and Accumulation: Peer Review Economies in Psychology
Between Gift-Giving and Accumulation: Peer Review Economies in Psychology
Peer review is crucial for academic communities to ensure high-quality research. Drawing on 39 semi-structured interviews, the study investigates how reviewers for three publishing outlets in psychology experience the tension between community responsibility and various priorities of a more individual kind.
Can a Better ID System for Authors, Reviewers and Editors Reduce Fraud?
Unverifiable researchers are a harbinger of paper mill activity. While journals have clues to identifying fake personas, there isn’t a standard template for doing so.
Why Restrictive Academic Authorship Practices Perpetuate Inequality
Authorship plays a central role in the credibility and career progression of academics. Yet as Joseph Mellors and Stroma Cole argue, restrictive authorship practices risk perpetuating inequalities and sidelining important contributions to knowledge.
The Chilling Effect of DEI Crackdowns in Scientific Publishing
Trump's executive orders are affecting how federally funded journals operate. Some researchers have raised alarms.
Gatekeepers of Trust: Reaffirming the Publisher's Role in Service of the Reader
Gatekeepers of Trust: Reaffirming the Publisher's Role in Service of the Reader
The most vital and enduring contribution of scholarly publishers is their role as gatekeepers - not as obstacles to knowledge but as stewards of quality, integrity, and trust.
Five Trends In The Publishers-Sustainability Nexus
Five developments that illustrate how the relationship between sustainability and scholarly publishers is changing over time.
Tackling Science's 'Nasty Photoshop Problem'
What can be done to resolve concerns about image integrity in scientific publications?
20,000 Scientists Publish at Unrealistic Rates
Analysis finds ‘implausibly high’ numbers of papers from many top scientists.
Move Beyond 'Publish or Perish' by Measuring Behaviours That Benefit Academia
Move Beyond 'Publish or Perish' by Measuring Behaviours That Benefit Academia
A standardized system to measure contributions in mentorship, collaboration and more could bring about systemic change in science.
Pioneering Journal ELife Faces Major Test After Loss of Impact Factor
The open-access title's bold publishing model has bought long-bubbling conflicts to the fore.
"Systematic Reviews" That Aim to Extract Broad Conclusions from Many Studies are in Peril
"Systematic Reviews" That Aim to Extract Broad Conclusions from Many Studies are in Peril
Fake papers are “poisoning the well” for these gold-standard syntheses, researchers say.
ELife Won't Get an Impact Factor, Says Clarivate
Clarivate has decided to continue indexing some content from eLife in Web of Science.
Preprints at a Crossroads - Are We Compromising Openness for Credibility?
Bringing together a range of studies into various aspects of how preprints interact with the wider information ecosystem, Natascha Chtena, Juan Pablo Alperin, and Alice Fleerackers argue that the speed, accessibility and low barriers to entry that preprints offer to scholarly communication risk being undermined by attempts to make them more aligned to traditional academic publications.
eLife to Lose Impact Factor Due to Peer Review Change
Journal’s policy of publishing all reviewed submissions irrespective of quality conflicts with citation metric’s rules.
Journals with High Rates of Suspicious Papers Flagged by Science-integrity Start-up
Journals with High Rates of Suspicious Papers Flagged by Science-integrity Start-up
Scitility's tool 'Argos' identifies work whose authors have a record of misconduct.
6 Major Academic Publishers Face Antitrust Lawsuit
The defendants, including Elsevier and Wiley, have done "tremendous damage to science and the public interest," the complaint alleged.
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