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Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan's $45 billion philanthropy organization is making its first acquisition in order to make it easier for scientists to search, read and tie together more than 26 million science research papers.
How do you know where to publish your research? Can you be sure the publisher you submit to is reputable? Read our guidance on what to look for.
Discussing the Future of Academic Publishing.
A geneticist's decision not to publish his finalized preprint in a journal gets support from scientists online.
Empowering researchers to publish Open Access by bringing transparency to Article Processing Charges.
A popular blog that lists “potential, possible, or probable predatory” publishers and journals has disappeared, but it is not clear why.
Accounting for equity and justice for patients, clinicians, academics, publishers, funders and academic institutions.
Jeffrey Beall’s blog was shut down for an unknown reasons.
The number of predatory publishers is skyrocketing – and they’re eager to pounce on unsuspecting scholars.
The potential advantages and challenges involved in a shift away from for-profit journals in favor of institutional open access publishing.
Some of the major mistakes early career researchers make when preparing and submitting a manuscript to a scientific journal.
Envisioning the scientific paper of the future.
Groups of authors citing each other is becoming an issue in scientific publishing. With a new approach, researchers discuss how to identify the problem.
The world's largest scholarly journal, PLOS ONE, is seeing fewer and fewer researchers publish their work in it as the open-access publishing market evolves.
Highly productive researchers have significantly higher probability to produce top cited papers.
Articles with more narrative abstracts are cited more often.
Publication bias, in which positive results are preferentially reported by authors and published by journals, can restrict the visibility of evidence against false claims and allow such claims to be canonized inappropriately as facts.
Neuroskeptic« No Need To Worry About False Positives in fMRI?What Happens to Rejected Papers?By Neuroskeptic | January 3, 2017 2:43 pm32The pain of rejection is one that every scientist has felt: but what happens to papers after they’re declined by a journal?In a new study, researchers Earnshaw et al. traced the fate of almost 1,000 manuscripts which had been submitted to and rejected by ear, nose and throat journal Clinical Otolaryngology between 2011 to 2013.
Fake news and "post-truth," which may have played a role in the 2016 elections, are also problems in science publishing and science journalism.
Mr. Beall’s website, which identifies “predatory open access scholarly publishers” that masquerade as scholarly journals, has grown to 923 publishers from 18 in 2011.
Universal Green OA Is the Most Efficient and Fairest of Science Publishing Strategies.
10 simple rules to help you get across the main idea of your paper.
Researchers at top-flight institutions are not immune to charms of questionable journals
Prospective cohort study of unsolicited and unwanted academic invitations.
French, German, and UK's joint guidelines for high-quality publications in scientific journals.
A list of some of the shady things Elsevier has been previously caught doing
A little over 1 year ago, the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) launched mSphere as an open-access, online, pan-microbial sciences journal. We established two major goals: publish cutting-edge science and implement policies and processes to make the publication experience less onerous for authors.
The open-access microbiology journal mSphere will give authors a "super-fast track" option toward publication. The idea has some ardent fans, but is also drawing doubts.
How could an article with numerous shortcomings be published in top-tier journal Nature? Hester van Santen reveals how the gate-keepers of science knowingly let flawed research slip through.
