It’s not only what the journals publish – it’s also what they refuse to publish that matters, warns Dr. Joseph Varon, a critical care specialist and president of the Independent Medical Alliance.

Signs of trouble are turning up at the biggest scientific journals and the publishers that host them. In December, nearly every member of the editorial board of the pre-eminent Journal of Human ...

To help reduce the misuse and misunderstanding of current science, scientific research needs to be explained in language the ...

Editors at scientific journals are quitting in droves. According to Retraction Watch, a watchdog publication, there have been at least 20 mass resignations since 2023. So, what’s going on? If you look ...

Behind the polished facade of peer-reviewed journals lurks a growing epidemic of junk science — propped up by predatory publishers, ignored conflicts of interest, and research so bad it refuses to die ...

The Science Partner Journal (SPJ) program was launched in late 2017 by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the nonprofit publisher of the Science family of journals. The ...

Find out about the journal aims and scope. To allow immediate global open access to all articles, npj Science of Plants levies an article processing charge (APC). Current APCs and waiver information ...

The publisher of a high-profile, now-corrected study on black plastics has been removed from a critical index of academic journals after failing to meet quality criteria, according to a report by ...

Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder have unveiled an AI-powered system designed to expose predatory scientific journals—those that trick scientists into paying for publication without ...

Find out about the journal aims and scope. npj Heritage Science is a fully open access journal. More on Creative Commons Attribution licenses and the benefits of publishing open access can be found in ...