Jonathan Wosen is STAT’s West Coast biotech & life sciences reporter. You can reach Jonathan on Signal at jwosen.27. In a stark sign of scientists’ escalating frustration with how academic journals ...

The rise of AI-generated research papers presents challenges for academic publishing, according to a report by The Verge., ...

“CERTAINLY, HERE is a possible introduction for your topic...” began a recent article in Surfaces and Interfaces, a scientific journal. Attentive readers might have wondered who exactly that bizarre ...

Long-standing criticisms of academic publishing are helping to fuel the Trump administration’s attacks on the nation’s scientific enterprise. For years, some members of the scientific community have ...

How much of the scientific literature is generated by AI? The first studies of the size of the AI footprint in scientific ...

The combination of scientists relying on AI chatbots to write articles and the proliferation of unscrupulous pay-to-play junk ...

A growing tide of fake papers is flooding the scientific record and proliferating faster than current checks can rid them from the system, scientists warn. The source of the trouble is “paper mills,” ...

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 ...

Researchers are misusing ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence chatbots to produce scientific literature. At least, that’s a new fear that some scientists have raised, citing a stark rise in ...

For the first time in history, a single language dominates global scientific communication. But the actual production of knowledge continues to be a multilingual enterprise. The use of English as the ...