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.

Japanese startup Sakana said that its AI generated the first peer-reviewed scientific publication. But while the claim isn’t ...

Yet not only were SCIgen papers regularly getting past the peer review process and into the pages of scientific journals, it was happening so regularly that, in the mid-2010s, journals deployed an ...

Publishing peer review files at Nature has been optional since 2020; starting Monday, it is now automatic.

Peer review is essential for science. Unfortunately, ... This infinitely agitates me when I peer-review papers. ... astrophysics, for example.

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 ...

If he’s right, then peer review—once a means of making scientific work balanced and consensus-driven—now serves to stifle disagreements, and deferring to it would be a form of surrender to ...

Each paper is an outlier in the context of relevant research — and will be unlikely to change how scientific assessments review the over all literature — they offer a seemingly plausible ...

Scientific and medical journals use the peer-review process to decide which studies are worthy of publication. But a string of questionable or allegedly fabricated research has made it into print.

The peer-review system for deciding what scientific research gets published and what doesn’t used to work pretty well, but like so much in academia, is now in trouble.

In this bygone era (ending around 1997), core scientific principles and cordiality seemed to rule side-by-side. There was little talk of “supplemental data.” You could count the biomedical journals ...

Japanese AI startup Sakana said that its AI generated one of the first peer-reviewed scientific publications. But while the claim isn’t necessarily untrue, there are caveats to note. The debate ...