RELX owns Elsevier, a major scientific publishing house with journals like Cell and Science. Criticism of high subscription fees for academic journal access and copyright issues have strained ...

Journals focused on ferns, clams, or coral reefs had proportionally more of their articles cited by the federal government when protecting species than more prominent, higher-impact journals. The ...

For decades, the peer review process in academic publishing has been considered the benchmark—ensuring that only the most rigorous research makes its way into the world. Yet, this model has remained ...

Presidential speeches, news stories, and novels all rely on simpler sentences and language than they did decades ago. In contrast, academic articles have become increasingly more challenging to read.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As the fall semester came to a close, Andrew Heiss, an assistant professor in the Department of Public Management and Policy at ...

The first time I heard that the current method used to accept scientific article submissions to academic journals—the peer review of academic articles—was the gold standard to ensure the quality of ...