There are already bad actors in science, including "paper mills" churning out fake papers. This problem will only get worse when a scientific paper can be produced with US$15 and a vague initial ...

This statement seems to be based on the retraction of a high-profile paper, published in Nature in 2006, showing that amyloid ...

The scientific paper—the actual form of it—was one of the enabling inventions of modernity. Before it was developed in the 1600s, results were communicated privately in letters, ephemerally in ...

Real journals, fake science. Scientific journals are usually a source of reputable research and information, but recently thousands of fraudulent papers have been published in those journals and ...

Science has a crummy-paper problem. By Derek Thompson. Getty; The Altantic. January 11, 2023. Share. Save. This is Work in Progress, a newsletter by Derek Thompson about work, technology, and how ...

Do scientific papers ever seem like unreadable gibberish to you? Well, sometimes they really are. Some 120 papers published in established scientific journals over the last few years have been ...

If you tried to guess off the top of your head what the most influential science papers of all time have been, you might think of things like Einstein showing that E = mc 2 or Watson and Crick’s ...

A paper published last week, “In Defense of Merit in Science,” documents the disquieting ways in which research is increasingly informed by a politicized agenda, one that often characterizes ...

As a science writer, I’ve been reading scientific papers for 30 years. I’d guess that I’ve read tens of thousands of them, in search of new advances to write about, or to do background ...