Will making ‘replication studies’ easier to find help science self-correct?
Credit: bpawesome/Getty The replication of experimental results is important for building credible science, but replication studies are often…
Paper mill cancer studies get double the number of citations as genuine papers
Credit: WIN-Initiative/Neleman/Getty Cancer research articles with telltale signs of being produced by paper mills garner double the number…
Closure of China’s influential journal ranking leaves academics reeling — what will take its place?
The Chinese Academy of Sciences is no longer publishing its journal ranking. Credit: Cheng Xin/Getty The National Science…
Major conference catches illicit AI use — and rejects hundreds of papers
Organizers of the 2026 International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) used a watermarking system to catch the use…
Critical social media posts linked to retractions of scientific papers
Credit: Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Posts on social-media platform X that are critical of scientific research can act…
More than half of researchers now use AI for peer review — often against guidance
Survey results suggest that peer reviewers are increasingly turning to AI.Credit: Panther Media Global/Alamy More than 50% of…
Low quality papers are flooding the cancer literature — can this AI tool help to catch them?
Credit: Malik Evren/iStock via Getty An artificial intelligence (AI) tool that scans manuscript titles and abstracts has flagged…
how to fight back against a peer-review bully
Nyssa Silbiger still recalls the rude remark that reviewer three made in 2014 about her first paper describing…
Europe’s largest paper mill? 1,500 research articles linked to Ukrainian network
Paper mills often produce papers with fabricated data or sell authorships to researchers.Credit: Lane Erickson/Alamy An investigation has…
Peer reviewers more likely to approve articles that cite their own work
Reviewers are more likely to approve a manuscript if their own work is cited in subsequent versions than…