Some scientists say the for-profit industry’s fast growth makes it harder to police fraud and low-quality work.

Authoritative, intelligent, responsible, serious—if you were asked to describe the general figure of a scientist, you would ...

Journal indexation cannot be the only appraisal of research performance. The evaluation system must prioritise impact-focused ...

The study addresses a critical issue in modern academia: the inefficiency of traditional publishing methods in an era of ...

When she died, the doctor conducted an autopsy, finding in her brain two suspicious proteins: sticky plaques between her ...

One Sunshine Coast student has made a name for themself in the world of academia with their research paper studying the face-naming effect.

Faced with more extreme weather events, communities may need to adapt to heightened risks from sea-level rise, flooding or ...

Ten pro-life researchers have challenged an academic journal s retraction of their studies analyzing the risks of abortion, ...

A National Institutes of Health study aims to find out whether ultraprocessed foods lead people to eat more. And, if so, why?

According to research published in the ACS partner journal Environment & Health, microplastics — particles from 1 to 62 ...

publishers pocket ever-growing revenues from journal subscriptions and article-processing fees with taxpayer-funded research dollars that could have otherwise supported science. (Some of that ...

It's a regrettable reality that there is never time to cover all the interesting scientific stories we come across each month ...