science publishing

Notable quotes from the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting

While the University Grants Commission’s system prioritizes peer-reviewed papers, experts not involved in the initiative express concern that it could incentivize cheating.

Major research funding agencies lend their support to an ASAPbio-led effort to streamline the banking of non–peer-reviewed manuscripts in the life sciences.

With its recruitment of dedicated “preprint editors,” PLOS Genetics makes official the practice of soliciting non-peer–reviewed manuscripts posted online. 

An initiative to replicate key findings in cancer biology yields a preliminary conclusion: it’s difficult.

Science under Trump, gene drive, medical marijuana, and more

The embattled thoracic surgeon is dealt another blow by his former employer, which is calling for the retraction of one of his papers on artificial esophagus research.

A look at this year’s most memorable retractions

Selected quotes from an eventful year

“CiteScore,” which ranks twice as many journals compared with publications assigned impact factors, makes its debut during a contentious time for journal metrics.

The importance of science innovation, publishing and gender, and more

A combination of the traditional metric and the newer h5 index potentiates the scientific community toward more-balanced evaluation. 

Peer review is in crisis, but should be fixed, not abolished.

A tool that uses machine learning algorithms to comb and categorize the scientific literature is making waves in neuroscience.

Springer Nature pulls 58 articles in one fell swoop, citing plagiarism and authorship manipulation, among other things.

This is not sustainable.

More papers correlate with top-cited research for more-established academics, but not newly minted professors, according to a study.  

Evaluators of mock submissions to an orthopedic surgery journal were more likely to recommend the publication of a manuscript from distinguished authors than one from anonymous ones.

An open-access journal is trialing a peer-review process in which reviewers do not have access to the results or discussion sections of submitted papers.

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