A large-scale, multinational attempt in Europe to rank humanities journals has set off a revolt. In a protest letter, some journal editors have called it “a dangerous and misguided exercise.” ...

And some publishers use sets of journals to cross-subsidize each other: for example, PLoS Biology and PLoS Medicine receive subsidy from PLoS ONE, says Damian Pattinson, editorial director at PLoS ...

We looked at 10 top journals — and yes, some show gender bias. For our study in PS, we collected information on all articles published by 10 top journals over the past 15 years.

Medical journals hit with threatening letters from ... The letters don't cite any specific examples of supposed bias or say what action ... But some other people also assert that the dominant ...

R eactions to an elaborate academic-journal hoax, dubbed “Sokal Squared” by one observer, came fast and furious on Wednesday. Some scholars applauded the hoax for unmasking what they called ...

→ Some science journals that claim to peer review papers do not do so → A practical guide to the most nail-biting part of the World Cup → A new species of gibbon is found in a 2,200-year-old ...

Scientists Take on Scholarly Journals With Walkouts, Scathing Letters and Delistings Some scientists say the for-profit industry’s fast growth makes it harder to police fraud and low-quality work By ...

And yet journals don’t publish that much from the slush anyway; some estimates say it accounts for only 1 to 2 percent of published submissions. Instead, editors solicit work from writers they ...