The science and medical journals have become highly ideological on many of the most important and contentious societal issues of the day, ranging from global warming to gender ideology, to critical ...

Jonathan Wosen is STAT’s West Coast biotech & life sciences reporter. You can reach Jonathan on Signal at jwosen.27. In a stark sign of scientists’ escalating frustration with how academic journals ...

Long-standing criticisms of academic publishing are helping to fuel the Trump administration’s attacks on the nation’s scientific enterprise. For years, some members of the scientific community have ...

Anil Oza is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the NIH and health equity. You can reach him on Signal at aniloza.16. Donald Trump has changed the way scientists engage with presidential ...

A growing tide of fake papers is flooding the scientific record and proliferating faster than current checks can rid them from the system, scientists warn. The source of the trouble is “paper mills,” ...

Editors at scientific journals are quitting in droves. According to Retraction Watch, a watchdog publication, there have been at least 20 mass resignations since 2023. So, what’s going on? If you look ...

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A major journal sees a 42% surge in AI-assisted scientific papers since late 2022. This rise coincides with a drop in writing ...

For the first time in history, a single language dominates global scientific communication. But the actual production of knowledge continues to be a multilingual enterprise. The use of English as the ...

Two major scientific journals expressed concern over years-old studies co-written by Stanford University president and neuroscientist Marc Tessier-Lavigne, stopping short of corrections or retractions ...

The rise of AI-generated research papers presents challenges for academic publishing, according to a report by The Verge., ...