On Thursday, the research publisher Science announced that all of its journals will begin using commercial software that automates the process of detecting improperly manipulated images. The move ...

Spanish scientist Pascual Diago has published a delusional study to denounce the invasion of fraudulent publishers in science ...

A study of millions of life science papers revealed that manuscripts with women in key authorship roles spent longer between ...

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 ...

Signs of trouble are turning up at the biggest scientific journals and the publishers that host them. In December, nearly ...

Medical Laboratory Scientist at bench with micropipettes. — Courtesy U.S. National Institutes of Health (Public Domain) Medical Laboratory Scientist at bench with micropipettes. — Courtesy U.S.

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 ...

Public health can be a money maker if investors use the right techniques to make their cash injections a safe bet, according to a report by Northeastern University academics. The report, "Investor ...

The Trump administration’s attack on scientific institutions has been characteristically audacious: Eliminating the U.S. Agency for International Development, which funded healthcare interventions and ...

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 ...