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“Official” title for this figure or table (from the caption):_____ My (simplified, decoded, in regular language) title for this figure or table:_____ The specific hypothesis being tested, or specific ...

Awareness of when a paper can’t be trusted is often too low — but adopting some easy-to-use technological solutions can help researchers, publishers and referees to clean things up. Guillaume Cabanac ...

The number of scientific papers flagged as fraudulent has been growing. Now a new paper sheds light on how it’s being done. Researchers found loose networks of unscrupulous editors working with ...

A group of research-integrity experts has launched a toolkit for researchers that outlines how to spot suspicious scientific papers. The guide’s creators hope that it will be a useful resource for ...

This is the third part of a series on academic publishing. Read part one here and part two here. For many years, the ...

A statistical analysis found that the number of fake journal articles being churned out by “paper mills” is doubling every year and a half. By Carl Zimmer For years, whistle-blowers have warned that ...

Since ChatGPT was released to the public almost three years ago, generative AI chatbots have had many impacts on our society: They played a large role in the recent Hollywood strikes, energy usage is ...

If you’re reading this, you’re probably a regular consumer of the news, so you know that for many, the reality of doing science in the US has been changing rapidly since the new US administration ...

The large language model–based chatbot ChatGPT fails to highlight the validity concerns with scientific papers that have been retracted or have been the subject of other editorial notices, according ...