D avid Moher is painfully aware that the academic-publishing model is in trouble. As director of the Centre for Journalology in Ottawa, Canada, Moher studies how academics conduct research and how ...

Gale Sinatra, professor of psychology and the Stephen H. Crocker Professor of Education at the University of Southern California, is stepping down as associate editor of the American Psychological ...

Earlier this month, a new journal based in Portland launched online with its first set of published scientific articles. But the Stacks Journal isn’t your typical academic journal, according to its ...

The first time I heard that the current method used to accept scientific article submissions to academic journals—the peer review of academic articles—was the gold standard to ensure the quality of ...

An analysis of 145 scholarly journals found that, among various factors that could contribute to gender bias and lesser representation of women in science, the peer review process itself is unlikely ...

The NLIU Law Review is the flagship journal of the National Law Institute University, Bhopal. It is a double blind, ...

Research findings posted online as preprints -- studies made public before undergoing the review and approval of a panel of peer scientists required by most scholarly journals -- often hold up quite ...

A leading robotics journal has been forced to retract six papers from Chinese academics after concluding that reviewers colluded with authors to “subvert” the peer review process. In a move likely to ...

Timothy Hugh Barker is the chair of the RIPPER (Research Integrity and Predatory Practices in Evidence Reviews) Working Group. This group conduct research into the imapct that fraudulent and erroneous ...