8+ hour, 4+ min ago  (458+ words) Luana sent me this tweet, which I'd missed, announcing the founding of a new scientific journal that exists to critique articles in other journals (with the original author given the right of reply). Click on the screenshot if you want…...

5+ hour ago  (407+ words) In a publish-or-perish environment where numbers count much more than quality, artificial intelligence has become the great disruptor. But what this could ultimately lead to is universities rebuilding their knowledge-sharing infrastructure into something of value. Sioux Mc Kenna is professor…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (217+ words) Credit: Jianbin Li, Robin G. Qiu, Weihua Zhou, Xiang Zhu. JMA will organize a symposium for the Special Issue on June 15-16, 2026 at ESCP Turin, Italy. Partial funding for the presenting author at the Symposium will be provided for outstanding papers after…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago  (118+ words) May 27, 2026, 06: 00 ET Reviewer Select's new website introduces a semantic AI platform that helps editorial teams identify relevant peer reviewers with greater speed and confidence. The platform analyses manuscript concepts, ranks reviewer candidates by expertise fit, and provides evidence behind every…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago  (251+ words) A new report suggests AI systems overvalued weaker essays, while failing to recognise exceptional ones Tuesday May 26 2026, 10: 40pm A Cambridge-led team of psychologists and AI experts have found that leading generative AI systems only matched human-awarded university grade classifications around half…...

2+ day, 7+ hour ago  (568+ words) Fake biomedical citations surged 12-fold in three years as a May 2026 audit found that one in 277 papers carried non-existent references early in 2026. An audit across 2. 5 million biomedical papers published by The Lancet has found that one in 277 biomedical papers carried…...

2+ day, 19+ hour ago  (4+ words) Letter to the Editor...

2+ day, 10+ hour ago  (300+ words) An audit of 2. 5 million biomedical papers shows that made-up references in peer-reviewed research have become a systemic issue. Since 2023, the rate has increased more than twelvefold. Researchers at Columbia University and other institutions have published the largest-ever review of citations…...

2+ day, 19+ hour ago  (73+ words) The production of the highest-quality literature reviews requires the judgement and expertise of people. The production of the highest-quality literature reviews requires the judgement and expertise of people....

2+ day, 4+ hour ago  (51+ words) NBC News A network of fake academic journals masquerading as legitimate publications has published more than a hundred AI-generated papers in recent months, in some cases using the names of real professors at top universities without their knowledge....