This figure is the only figure in an article entitled “The Nine Circles of Scientific Hell” — an article that seeks to “take a humorous look at the fate that awaits scientists who sin ...

The notion that this split can and must exist—and that scientific journals are important for enforcing it—is largely a fiction. It's also one of relatively recent vintage.

Note that this figure is just for US scientists. World-wide, the 2018 count was 2.6 million journal articles in one year, generating a revenue stream of roughly $8 billion annually. There is fierce ...

Here now for your consideration is "An In-Depth Analysis of a Piece of Shit," — a real research article published by real scientists in the latest issue ...

But journals often act as if they’re monuments to their own rectitude rather than repositories of valid scientific information. The Lancet took a dozen years to retract the bogus study linking ...

Schekman argues that these journals place a premium on factors not relevant to each article's scientific heft, like how well it will attract readers (and thus, subscription money.) This, according ...

The study identified 900 “inactive” journals that may be at risk of vanishing, since over three-quarters of the journals that ended up falling offline did so within 5 years from the last ...