The correspondence of Joan B Soriano and Alberto Ruano-Ravina deserves timely praise, highlighting the threat that predatory ...

Public trust in scientific integrity is eroded by the politicisation of institutions under Donald Trump's US presidency. The implications extend far beyond American borders, striking at the core of ...

The National Institutes of Health announced it will put a limit on publisher fees for publicly funded research by Fiscal Year ...

Director of the National Institutes of Health says that capping research journals’ open-access fees will help rein in the $19 ...

The 2024 NIH Public Access Policy -- put into place by Bhattacharya's predecessor Monica Bertagnolli, MD -- requires that authors who receive NIH funding must ensure that their work is made publicly ...

This was unreplicable for several reasons. First, "prisoners" were not protected from the "guards," which cannot be allowed ...

The U.S. National Institutes of Health said on Tuesday it plans to implement a policy that caps how much publishers can ...

Publishing peer review files at Nature has been optional since 2020; starting Monday, it is now automatic. “Our aim in doing so is to open up what many see as the ‘black box’ of science ...

A few publishers have already taken this step, and although only time will tell if it succeeds, the practice does appear to blunt the argument that too much scientific work is hashed out behind ...

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 ...

SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHING has long been a money-printing operation, with many big publishing houses reporting profit margins of between 30% and 40% year after year. The long-standing business model is ...

Generative AI is boosting production of fake scientific papers. How are journal publishers adjusting to this new reality?