Signs of trouble are turning up at the biggest scientific journals and the publishers that host them. In December, nearly every member of the editorial board of the pre-eminent Journal of Human ...
Communications in Transportation Research (COMMTR), ranked #1 in its field with an Impact Factor of 14.5, transitions from ...
Don’t worry—the rat dck can no longer hurt you. The open-access paper that contained bizarre, AI-generated imagery of rat genitalia and gibberish graphics has been retracted by its publisher, which ...
China’s first fully open-access English journal in its field, will transition from IEEE to Tsinghua University Press starting ...
BEIJING -- Vita, a top-tier international journal in life sciences and biomedicine led by China, is set to launch in spring ...
Publishers often charge authors to publish their publicly-funded research. Will a federal crackdown make a difference?
A microscopic discovery in a California lake sparked buzz and controversy more than a decade ago when it was first revealed. Scientists said they'd discovered bacteria that used the element ...
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 ...
Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder have unveiled an AI-powered system designed to expose predatory scientific journals—those that trick scientists into paying for publication without ...
An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. For most of ...