Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Taxpayers fund a lot of university research in the U.S., and these findings published in scholarly journals often produce major ...

A lawsuit recently filed by scientists against six major academic journal publishers shines a spotlight on a long-standing issue that echoes the broader problems in academia itself: an excessive ...

Research papers in peer-reviewed academic journals are at the heart of academic integrity. New ideas and discoveries are ...

Hiya, folks, and welcome to TechCrunch’s regular AI newsletter. This week in AI, generative AI is beginning to spam up academic publishing — a discouraging new development on the disinformation front.

I'm a busy bee. A very busy bee. Working full-time and pursuing my MBA all while trying to still have a social life? Some people may find that torturous, but that's my happy place. So, when the ...

It’s easy to believe something when a scientific study suggests it’s true. But what we often don’t know is where that study came from — and that’s a problem, experts say. “Predatory journals” are fake ...

Climate science has been hijacked by philosophical globalism and alarmism, psychology research is controlled by gender, ...

A few weeks ago, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health and human services secretary, made a bold proclamation during a podcast appearance: “We’re probably going to stop publishing in The Lancet, New ...

Jillian Kay Melchior leaves out the major benefit of hoax articles submitted to and published by academic journals (“Fake News Comes to Academia,” op-ed, Oct. 6). You can say that hoaxes are unethical ...

An emeritus professor at the University of Missouri, Arthur Jago, in a recent Chronicle of Higher Education article was skeptical of the claim that a majority of academic journal articles are never ...

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