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 ...

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 ...

President Trump’s executive order “Restoring Gold Standard Science” provides a directive to restore a higher standard for scientific research and discovery. Yet despite the concerns it raises, the ...

Armed with funding, algorithms, and a tip line, this new effort aims to dig corrupt studies out of medical literature before they do real-world harm.

Peer review, supposedly the gold standard of scientific respectability, is increasingly a fraud. On the one hand it takes the form of “pal review” in which scientists usher their chums’ papers into ...

In the humanities, for example, double-blind peer review is favoured. This is where two external peer reviewers review the paper and send their reviews to the editor handling that paper.