If false scientific papers are published, the indirect damage also includes harm to patients and the healthcare system, ...

Should scientists use artificial intelligence to help conduct research or write up the results? Most publishers prohibit ...

Assistant professor Frank Cackowski, left, and researcher Steven Zielske at Wayne State University in Detroit became suspicious of a paper on cancer research that was eventually retracted. Amy Sacka, ...

Most scientific literature is published in for-profit journals that rely on subscriptions and paywalls to turn a profit. But that trend has been shifting as various governments and funding agencies ...

The study found that between 2010 and 2012 there were only 4429 scientists from China who were likely to have led China-US ...

Preprint repository ArXiv is cracking down on survey papers after AI tools make it easy to mass-produce low-quality submissions that overwhelm volunteer moderators.

A statistical analysis found that the number of fake journal articles being churned out by “paper mills” is doubling every year and a half. By Carl Zimmer For years, whistle-blowers have warned that ...

In southern India, a new enterprise called Peer Publicon Consultancy offers a full suite of services to scientific ...

The number of scientific papers flagged as fraudulent has been growing. Now a new paper sheds light on how it’s being done. Researchers found loose networks of unscrupulous editors working with ...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is distancing itself from a headline-making paper about AI’s purported ability to accelerate the speed of science. Toner-Rodgers’ work even earned ...