I Commute From New York City to Washington DC Every Week for a Job
It’s 5:52 a.m. in Moynihan Train Hall. I’m balancing a container of fruit and my water bottle in…
Trump slams NBC election comment; Treasury bars some reporters from G20
Former President Donald Trump and moderator Kristen Welker appear in a pre taped interview on “Meet the Press”…
I’m a novelist — cheering the $2.4M AI book deal that should open everyone’s eyes
The publishing industry is in an uproar this month as agents and editors alike confront a mysterious new…
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…
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…
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:…
P!nk to Receive NMPA Songwriter Icon Award at Annual Meeting
Three days after she hosts the 2026 Tony Awards, P!nk is set to receive the NMPA Songwriter Icon…
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…