A ten-year drive to credit authors for their work — and why there’s still more to do
A decade ago, we and others launched a tool for clarifying the roles of each author of a…
Women seem to retract fewer papers than men — but why?
Are women more careful about their research than men? Or are they more risk-averse?Credit: Westend61/Getty Women are under-represented…
‘Godfather of AI’ becomes first person to hit one million citations
Yoshua Bengio won the 2018 Turing Award for work on neural networks. Credit: The Canadian Press/Alamy Computer scientist…
Amazon’s Bestselling Herbal Guides Are Overrun by Fake Authors and AI
Herbalist books have been popular for centuries. This new AI-written generation is a disgrace. Image in Creative Commons.…
How to spot fake scientists and stop them from publishing papers
Beatriz Ychussie’s career in mathematics seemed to be going really well. She worked at Roskilde University in Denmark…
The first eight | Nature Physics
Zapperi, S., Castellano, C., Colaiori, F. & Durin, G. Nat. Phys. 1, 46–49 (2005). Article Google Scholar Papanikolaou,…
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…
why I’m happy to admit to my research failures, and you should too
The open-science movement has promoted the sharing of scientific protocols, statistical-analysis programs and data files. These efforts have…
PRH Canada Waves the Flag
So far this year, Penguin Random House Canada is seeing an uptick in sales across multiple categories. CEO…
McKinstry employment update | Spokane Journal of Business
McKinstry Co. is fueling an employment boom among skilled trades at its two West Plains facilities, says Gabe…
Megan Greenwell on holding out for the once-in-a-lifetime book idea
Megan Greenwell. Photo by Loreto Caceres Story Annotations The author of “Bad Company” on the merits of waiting…
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…