Fueling this troubling trend is a mentality known in academia as "publish or perish" which has existed for decades. The publication of research papers drives university rankings and career progression ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Assistant professor Frank Cackowski, left, and researcher Steven Zielske at Wayne State University in Detroit became suspicious of ...

Jensen is founder and CEO of Etalia, a health research communications and training firm. On Tuesday, the Department of Health and Human Services published new policies on research misconduct, which ...

On a crisp fall day in 2023, social psychologist Max Hui Bai, a former postdoctoral fellow and entrepreneur-in-training at Stanford University, was enjoying a board game night with fellow academics.

George R.R. Martin recently made the news because he co-wrote a scientific paper. While it’s rare for someone from the arts to get their name on a research paper, it’s not unheard of. Several familiar ...

Over the past decade, furtive commercial entities around the world have industrialized the production, sale and dissemination of bogus scholarly research, undermining the literature that everyone from ...