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 ...

When Adam Day built a method to compare the language in peer-review reports across scientific journals, he expected to find ...

From fraudulent research coming out of paper mills, to data fabrication showing up in published papers, academic journals have a quality control issue on their hands. According to a study in Nature, ...

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 ...

In its August edition, Resources Policy, an academic journal under the Elsevier publishing umbrella, featured a peer-reviewed study about how ecommerce has affected fossil fuel efficiency in ...

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 ...

The cost of academic journals has increased steeply over the past few decades and continues to climb. Academic libraries, already caught in an economic squeeze, are finding it difficult to acquire new ...

Last month, the University of California reached an impasse with one of the world’s biggest publishers of academic journals over whether the company’s publications would be included in the ...

Editors at a leading management research journal report that submissions have risen sharply since ChatGPT’s release, but many AI-assisted papers show weaker prose and higher rejection rates. An ...

Nigerian universities should ensure their journals are of a high standard. Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP via Getty Images Academic journals are central to the careers of academic staff of tertiary institutions ...