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 ...

At a briefing at the AAAS Annual Meeting moderated by Clive Cookson, a veteran editor and science writer at The Financial Times, these EICs took to a stage to address some of the most challenging ...

Over the past 25 years, a Canadian medical journal has been publishing fictional clinical case reports but framing them as ...

The Science Partner Journal (SPJ) program is pleased to announce the inclusion of five SPJs in the 2023 Journal Citation Reports (JCR) from Clarivate. Research, launched in 2018, received its second ...

Katie Couric Asks Gavin Newsom, ‘Are You Just Ridiculously Good-Looking?’ Anti-Billionaire Sentiment Is Dumb By Barring Anthropic, the Pentagon Shoots America in the Foot Suddenly, It’s America That ...

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 ...

Academic journals, and the researchers who publish in them, are increasingly engaged in naked political advocacy rather than science. It's time we cut off public funding to peer-reviewed publications ...

An open access scientific journal, Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, was openly criticized and mocked by researchers on social media this week after they observed the publication had ...

Chinese researchers will no longer be reimbursed for paper publication charges in Nature Communications, among other titles.

(Yicai) Feb. 27 -- The Chinese Academy of Sciences plans to stop paying article processing charges for more than 30 international open access journals, including Nature Communications, Cell Reports, ...