1+ day, 3+ hour ago  (616+ words) Peer review is at an inflection point. For decades, the system has been built on trust in reviewers" identity, independence and expertise. While editorial oversight has historically sustained this trust, emerging challenges are exposing limits to a system that was…...

6+ day, 20+ hour ago  (409+ words) Get the latest news from Retraction Watch and beyond Monday through Friday, plus Weekend Reads each Saturday. The Journal of Medical Ethics has retracted a paper on the use of AI in the pharmaceutical industry for containing references that don't…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago  (426+ words) Judging the quality of a study is not an exact science, but there are certain hallmarks that we can look for to figure out how much faith we should place in the findings of a piece of research. There are…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago  (775+ words) I was recently invited to work as a guest editor for a super-interesting paper. The focus of the paper closely aligned with my research background, so I accepted. The empirical part of the manuscript seemed solid enough. The main results…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (224+ words) Mirage News Teresa Cabr, lecturer in the Department of Catalan Studies, and Xavier Navarro, lecturer in the Department of Cellular Biology, Physiology and Immunology, have been elected members of the UAB's Scientific Integrity Committee. The Spanish Research Ethics Committee (CEEI)…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (441+ words) The report provides the first evidence-informed overview of how institutions that signed the Agreement on Reforming Research Assessment (ARRA) are implementing their commitments. The study focuses on organisations that are part of the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (Co ARA),…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (382+ words) China Daily - Global Edition Conference charts future of research publishing across Asia-Pacific The Asia-Pacific region, a growing hub of scientific innovation, is playing an increasingly influential role in shaping the future of global scholarly communication. On June 16, the 2nd STM APAC…...

2+ week, 21+ hour ago  (588+ words) IN a major milestone for indigenous African and scholarship and media leadership, the global open-science discovery network Science Open has officially appointed Max Nwabueze Amuchie as an expert member and peer reviewer in social and behavioural sciences. In an email…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (729+ words) Philosophy papers are not forgiving. You can't just add filler or rely on vague ideas. The argument must be strong or it fails. So when I decided to test Papers Owl's philosophy writing service, I wasn't running a casual check....

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (559+ words) Disruptions in higher education were on the minds of attendees at the Association of University Presses conference, June 1315, at the Westin Seattle. The AUPresses meeting drew 472 registered attendees, plus 24 publishing services vendors, for conversations around sustaining healthy operations, effectively marketing…...