Robert Maxwell founded a scientific publishing empire after World War II that turned research papers into a profitable ...

Federal officials are raising long-standing concerns with research journals and the academic incentive structures propping them up. But experts say the government alone can’t overhaul the industry.

When President Donald Trump’s administration abruptly canceled federal subscriptions to Springer Nature journals this summer, ...

The rise of "fake" science poses a serious threat to the integrity of academic research, a new study warns. A widespread underground network of fraudsters is pumping out fake scientific results at an ...

Researchers design studies that might disprove what’s called their null hypothesis – the opposite of the claim they’re ...

Bill and Melinda Gates visiting women in Jamsaut village in Bihar, India. Open access to journals is particularly important for researchers in developing countries. (Gates Foundation Photo) Scientific ...

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

Much published science and the "knowledge" resulting from it is likely wrong and sends researchers chasing false leads. Without research integrity, we don’t know what we know, so it is incumbent on ...

Why should I believe a scientist? While the pandemic exacerbated mistrust in scientists, confidence in research has been slowly eroding for decades. This series of stories peels back the curtain to ...

In the past year there's been a lot of talk about the lack of trust in science and the need to distinguish legitimate research from misinformation, disinformation, and other forms of fallaciousness.

Fraud may be rampant in biomedical research. My 2016 article "Broken Science" pointed to a variety of factors as explanations for why the results of a huge proportion of scientific studies were ...