publishing, ethics

Scientists from countries with fewer resources are pushing collaborators from higher-income countries to shed biases and behaviors that perpetuate social stratification in the research community.

It is a violation of publishing ethics to use the peer review comments of one journal to mature a manuscript and submit to another with a higher impact factor.

Controversy surrounding a mathematical model to explain the so-called “greater variability of males” hypothesis fells two versions of a paper—but critics of the work wish it were still published.

Nature Plants explains how it handled a manuscript coauthored by Patrice Dunoyer, a biologist with multiple retractions to his name.

How to tell reputable journals from shady ones

Studies in Research Integrity and Peer Review analyze ethics and quality in both science and publishing.

Around one out of every four cancer papers scrutinized in a recent study contains questionable figures, and journals and authors aren’t responding to requests for clarification.

The number of plagiarism-based retractions has grown since the advent of detection software, according to a BioMed Central analysis.

Staff of the blog Retraction Watch will create a database of papers retracted from the scientific literature.

Scholarly publishing organizations join forces to set standards for aboveboard open access journals.