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How we write scientific papers does not reflect how we do science, masking the human in the process by design. We should consider the structure of the scientific paper, and the need to celebrate the human in an age when AI threatens to overwhelm us.
Emerging challenges are exposing limits to a system that was not designed to withstand. Peer review is at an inflection point.
The role of AI in peer review should be acknowledged in order to ensure practical guidance and policies that help scholars respond with consistency and confidence.
Largest illegal database of scientific papers has gaps in recently published literature, but its chatbot can still prove useful—especially for less-timely questions
The preprint movement, once seen as a pragmatic, low-cost, researcher-driven route to openness, now faces its own moment of uncertainty.
An additional layer of quality control could help academic publishers weed out problematic content before it propagates.
Advances in agentic AI combined with increasingly large reserves of openly accessibly and machine-readable data are creating a perfect storm for the mass-production of AI authored research papers.
This post is an urgent call to push back against global trends in academic censorship and threats to free speech in scholarly communications.
What would it mean to support community-led publishing as infrastructure, rather than as a collection of heroic individual efforts?
A study of millions of life science papers revealed that manuscripts with women in key authorship roles spent longer between submission and acceptance.
