Editors at scientific journals are quitting in droves. According to Retraction Watch, a watchdog publication, there have been at least 20 mass resignations since 2023. So, what’s going on? If you look ...

How much of the scientific literature is generated by AI? The first studies of the size of the AI footprint in scientific ...

Richard Aslin’s “The Science of the Tax-Dollar Double Dip” (op-ed, March 31) argues, as do most scientists (including me), for finding ways to provide free access to even the highest-quality ...

Long-standing criticisms of academic publishing are helping to fuel the Trump administration’s attacks on the nation’s scientific enterprise. For years, some members of the scientific community have ...

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 ...

When Adam Day built a method to compare the language in peer-review reports across scientific journals, he expected to find ...

For the first time in history, a single language dominates global scientific communication. But the actual production of knowledge continues to be a multilingual enterprise. The use of English as the ...

Science and Nature, two leading science journals, have revealed a growing problem: an alarming rise in fraudulent research papers produced by shady paper mill companies. This wave of fake studies is ...