Researchers from prominent universities worldwide are hiding secret commands in their academic papers to trick AI-powered review systems into giving positive feedback. An investigation first reported ...

Every year, more than one million scientific articles are published in the life sciences. Two-thirds of them include ...

A new global initiative aims to catch flawed or manipulated medical studies before they mislead doctors, harm patients, or ...

No other scientific journal wields as much influence in the medical world as the New England Journal of Medicine. In this ...

Five years after a widely revered study was debunked as totally bogus, Helen Coffey asks the experts whether trust in the ...

That is the number of potential peer-reviewers I had to approach for a paper in a top mental health and addiction journal I ...

What if scientific research were as easy to Google as dinner recipes? That’s the question I found myself asking after ...

According to the independent news organization the Conversation, five publishing houses control about half the global academic publishing industry’s market share. Relx, the parent company of the ...

Introduction Despite dealing with scientific output and potentially having an impact on the quality of research published, the manuscript peer-review process itself has at times been criticised for ...

In this contribution we briefly recap the general concept of the BRSU Race Academy. We then concentrate on and demonstrate how practical projects can be set up and executed within this framework. We ...

Facilitating peer reviews of scientific studies and programs that agencies use to support decision making A fundamental role of the Science Office is to link the ecological research and management ...

When you outlaw or discourage the sale of plastic bags, fewer of them end up as litter on beaches.  That’s the intuitive finding of a paper published Thursday in the journal Science, which involved ...