Now, I think that the modern peer review of academic articles is better described as the paper money standard. Sometimes, it seems to work in the short run, but it always causes problems in the long ...

Reviewer 1: "This manuscript is a timely and important contribution to the field, with clear methodology and compelling results. I recommend publication with only minor revisions." Reviewer 2: "This ...

Traditionally, scientific publishing happened behind the scenes, with only the final product of a new scientific article shared with the research community at the end of the process. The efforts of ...

NextNRG, Inc. (NASDAQ: NXXT ), a pioneer in AI-driven energy innovation transforming how energy is produced, managed, and delivered, today announced that ...

Some scholarly publishers are embracing artificial intelligence tools to help improve the quality and pace of peer-reviewed research in an effort to alleviate the longstanding peer review crisis ...

Carl Bergstrom is an evolutionary biologist at the University of Washington in Seattle and the co-author of an open online course about how to learn and thrive in a ChatGPT world. Time is a precious ...

The perennial pressure to publish or perish is intense as ever for faculty trying to advance their careers in an exceedingly tight academic job market. On top of their teaching loads, faculty are ...

Some requests by reviewers to cite their own publications are coercive and can unnecessarily delay indexation and publication.

Beatriz Ychussie’s career in mathematics seemed to be going really well. She worked at Roskilde University in Denmark where, in 2015 and 2016 alone, she published four papers on mathematical formulae ...

Peer reviewers whose work is cited in the studies they are refereeing are significantly more likely to recommend accepting those papers than if their work is not cited, a new study has found. The ...

Thousands of scientific papers are retracted every year because of fraudulent activity, with both authors and journals gaming a system to gain academic acclaim through deceit, dishonesty and false ...

SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS exist to do one thing: provide accurate, peer-reviewed reports of new research to an interested audience. But according to a paper published in PNAS on August 4th, that lofty goal ...