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PubPeer responds to criticism that anonymous post-publication peer review threatens the scientific process.

A partnership between Wikipedia and scholarly publishing behemoth Elsevier has open-access advocates up in arms.

Online scientific journals are sacrificing the quality of research articles to make a buck.

Neuroscientist Brandon Stell identifies himself as one of the creators of the post-publication peer review website, as he and his colleagues announce the nonprofit PubPeer Foundation.

Scientific journals that publish papers with snappier titles accrue more citations per paper, according to a report.

A literature scan finds a fraction of researchers who pump out dozens of publications each year.

BioMed Central updates a retraction notice issued in March after finding out the authors did not influence the peer-review process.

Science releases new guidelines for research transparency, hoping to stem the tide of retractions and misconduct.

Just half of the clinical studies used to gain premarket approval for cardiac devices ever make it into the scientific literature.

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.

An editor of the journal Scientific Reports quits in protest of paid, expedited review.

How to navigate the choppy waters of scientific publication

Despite documented dysfunction in a number of studies, rarely do those problems get a mention in the resulting publications, according to a new study.

The American Diabetes Association faces a lawsuit after journal editors express concern over several papers.

Do bigger labs churn out more high-impact papers? Not necessarily, according to a new analysis.

Henry Oldenburg founded Philosophical Transactions to share scholarly news from the “Ingenious in many considerable parts of the World.”

Macmillan Science and Education, the publisher of Nature and Scientific American, will join forces with Springer Science+Business Media.

A look at this year’s most memorable retractions

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