One of the 15 publications that put out the most studies globally has been expelled from the indexing system for ...

The choreographed movements that cells perform to form complex biological shapes, like our hands, have fascinated scientists ...

Robert Maxwell founded a scientific publishing empire after World War II that turned research papers into a profitable business.

Last spring, I joined a rebellion. The entire editorial board of the prestigious scientific journal NeuroImage, of which I was a member, resigned after its publisher refused to take steps to ease the ...

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Federal officials are raising long-standing concerns with research journals and the academic incentive structures propping them up. But experts say the government alone can’t overhaul the industry.

I love the idea of ‘micropublications’ (preparing one now),” the neurobiologist Oded Rechavi commented on social media in July. The term clearly suggests a short article, and although the publishing ...

Funding organizations can fix the science publishing system—which currently puts profit first and science second—according to ...

At least, that is apparently what one individual wants us to believe. Wired.co.uk is in possession of a document, sent anonymously, detailing how "Google Science" would bring together existing ...