France and Italy to Iran: Hey, Let’s Make a Deal! Audio By Carbonatix Like so much of the academic world, the peer-review process has become corrupt, ineffective, and dysfunctional. Fortunately, there ...

Sept 13 (Reuters) - A University of California Los Angeles neuroscience professor has sued six major academic journal publishers, claiming in a proposed class action that they violated antitrust law ...

Jan 30 (Reuters) - A group of major academic publishers convinced a judge in New York to dismiss a lawsuit accusing them of thwarting competition by barring scholars from submitting papers to multiple ...

Peer review—the process by which academics evaluate new manuscripts involving new research—has long been a cornerstone of the academic publishing process. But are large commercial publishers ...

WTF?! A new development in academic publishing has been uncovered in a recent investigation: researchers are embedding hidden instructions in preprint manuscripts to influence artificial intelligence ...

Editor’s Note: Previously, this series on scholarly publishing has offered advice on approaching an editor, getting a book contract, and writing a “timely” book. Peer review can be stressful, even for ...

Jonathan Wosen is STAT’s West Coast biotech & life sciences reporter. You can reach Jonathan on Signal at jwosen.27. In a stark sign of scientists’ escalating frustration with how academic journals ...

Peer review is a central feature of academic work. It’s the process through which research ends up published in an academic journal: independent experts scrutinise the work of another researcher in ...

An autonomous AI system has written a scientific paper from scratch and cleared the first round of peer review at a workshop for the International Conference on Learning Representations, one of the ...