On October 25, 2026, Professor Gary King and his colleagues at Harvard University published research that could fundamentally change the nature of academic publishing. The title of the paper is, AI Article Reviews Dominate Human Peer Reviews at Their Best: Evidence and…
Miryam Naddaf is a reporter for Nature in London. Bibliometric databases review the journals they list to ensure they are indexing quality titles that do not engage in shady publishing practices.Credit: Hisayoshi Osawa/Getty Researchers have identified three warning…
The Open Research Europe platform offers 2.5 million researchers full editorial services on the platform at no charge.Credit: Michael Szebor/Nature Science funders and research organizations in Europe are joining forces to expand open-access publishing and make the peer-review process…
University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia. Nature recently reported that the preprint server arXiv is banning papers that contain references hallucinated by artificial-intelligence tools (see Nature 653, 988–989; 2026). Scientists continue to debate whether such citations constitute research misconduct (see Nature 652, 26–29; 2026). Nature 658, 1356 (2026) Can maths…
This is the fifth post in a series: In this post we go deeper: presenting our theory of change — including the status and information economics of the journal; a survey of previous related projects; and the high-level conclusions that follow…
If your week flew by — we know ours did — catch up here with what you might have missed. The week at Retraction Watch featured: Journal investigating paper on heart device with registration number for wrong trial When open data are…
Here is something new for you - the Is it new? AI scan tool. It is a feature I thought would be neat to build, where instead of you reaching out to me to see if this or that is a…
An analysis of 33,159 cancer journal articles revealed tell-tale patterns of fake citation numbers across 4,000 articles by 'research paper mills', or fraudulent research organisations. The suspect papers received 50-100 per cent more citations than other articles within one to three years of…
With 20 scientific publications and a perfect score on his master's thesis defense, La Hung, a graduate student at Ton Duc Thang University (TDTU), has marked a successful research journey since his undergraduate years. Behind Hung's achievements lies perseverance and persistence.
Subject of Research: Early-access publishing of accepted manuscripts as Articles in Press with permanent DOIs Article Title: Articles in Press Keywords: Articles in Press, peer review, open access, Digital Object Identifier, BMC Geriatrics, Version of Record, scholarly publishing, author proofing,…
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