Can we stop AI from flooding scientific journals?
Key Insights Generative artificial intelligence has worsened a long-standing publish-or-perish problem in the academic community by making…
Could small-team science be dying out?
The size of scientific research teams has increased steadily over time.Credit: twomeows/Getty Few papers in history have had…
‘Street Safari’ by Alan Schaller Finds Humanity in Animals
London, 2025. | Photo by Alan Schaller Photographer Alan Schaller’s first book, Metropolis, explored the isolation of living…
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…
What’s behind China’s historically high counts of corresponding authors?
China’s previous evaluation system rewarded researchers who were listed as corresponding authors.Credit: Andrii Yalanskyi/iStock via Getty Researchers in…
Why AI can’t be trusted to write scientific reviews
Artificial-intelligence tools are being touted as a means to conduct rapid reviews of scientific literature. At the London-based…
Tough peer-review process? Your paper might end up being more highly cited
Academic reviewers sometimes deliver the feedback that a scientific paper can be published, but with major revisions. Credit:…
Hallucinated citations highest in social sciences preprints site
Analyses of research repositories are estimating the rates of hallucinated citations in research papers.Credit: patpitchaya/iStock via Getty The…
Surge in fake citations uncovered by audit of 2.5 million biomedical science papers
The reference integrity audit of 2.5 million biomedical papers spans 3 years of scientific publishing.Credit: Aramyan/Getty An audit…
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…
We need to talk about failure in science
You have full access to this article via your institution. A failed experiment shouldn’t mean the end of…
In an AI age, writers should have some self-respect
You may think this sounds moralistic. Well, good. Publishing, like fast food or arms manufacturing, is an industry,…