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 ...

Studies published in prestigious academic journals receive more attention from scholars and media outlets, shaping public ...

Attached to the Very Large Telescope in Chile, the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) allows researchers to probe the most distant galaxies. It’s a popular instrument: for its next observing ...

When Jonas Kunst first began his career as a social psychology researcher, he was excited to receive requests to review academic journal articles—even though he wasn’t getting paid. “As a Ph.D.

11 May 2023 – Review Commons, the journal-agnostic preprint peer-review platform, is expanding thanks to additional funding from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). HHMI has awarded EMBO a ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Submissions to academic journals have surged since the release of ChatGPT, straining a peer ...

Reviewer 1: “This manuscript is a timely and important contribution to the field, with clear methodology and compelling results. I recommend publication with only minor revisions.” Reviewer 2: “This ...

Grappling with problematic papers and poorly documented data, researchers and journal editors gathered in Pittsburgh to hash out the best way forward. Recent highly publicized scandals have gotten the ...

Scientific publishing relies on peer review as the mechanism that maintains trust in what we publish. When we read a journal article, we assume experts have rigorously scrutinised it before ...