Researchers are dealing with a disturbing trend that threatens the foundation of scientific progress: scientific fraud has ...

A small but growing number of academics are improperly taking credit for articles, citations, and authorships, allowing them ...

This contamination of the literature includes an alarming proliferation of outright fraudulent publications in an expanding avalanche of new digital-only “science journals.” ...

A study by Northwestern University researchers found the publication of fraudulent science now outpaces the growth rate of ...

Publications like Science and the New England Journal of Medicine have long been essential forums for new research. Now the Trump administration is accusing them of political bias, corporate ...

Science Journals Are Purging Racist, Sexist Work. Finally Getting rid of harmful papers is a vital step toward reestablishing readers' trust.

The spread of a lingua franca helps scientific communication, writes a geologist and translator in his new book, even if it’s not always the kind of English we are familiar with.

How Open-Access Journals Are Transforming Science Academic publishers are "still acting as if the internet doesn't exist," says Michael Eisen, co-founder of the Public Library of Science.

Every scientist wants their paper to appear in Cell, Nature or Science. Being associated with such publications is synonymous with prestige and excellence. However, these journals are typically ...

Some science journals that claim to peer review papers do not do so One estimate puts the number of papers in questionable journals at 400,000 ...