Are editors manipulating citation scores in order to inflate the status of their publications? Are they corrupting the rankings of scholarly journals? While any allegations about cheating or other ...

There are many valid reasons for an academic journal to reject a scientific paper, but concerns over the political implications of its findings aren’t among them. Yet that’s what happened to Theodore ...

Other academics, particularly younger scholars, often ask me about how to get an academic book published. When I recently floated the idea of writing a series of blog posts about this issue, on social ...

Since the 1990s, some academic netizens have predicted that open access will upend scholarly journal publishing, yet an oligopoly still dominates the $25-billion industry. Orvium, a European start-up, ...

If you search Google Scholar for the phrase “as an AI language model”, you’ll find plenty of AI research literature and also some rather suspicious results. For example, one paper on agricultural ...

Sept 13 (Reuters) - A University of California Los Angeles neuroscience professor has sued six major academic journal publishers, claiming in a proposed class action that they violated antitrust law ...

There are a lot of scientific papers out there. One estimate puts the count at 1.8 million articles published each year, in about 28,000 journals. Who actually reads those papers? According to one ...