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…
Tool flags suspicious journals before researchers submit papers
Journal Trends allows users to track a journal’s published papers by country and year.Credit: Michael Szebor/Nature Deciding where…
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…
This AI can improve your peer review — and make it more polite
A newly described artificial-intelligence coach provides feedback to make peer reviews more specific and useful.Credit: Mohd Izzuan Roslan/Alamy…
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…
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…