Researchers often face the frustrations of failed projects, incomplete papers, or collaborations that did not produce the desired results. The feeling of wasted time and resources can be extremely...

The European Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act), the world's first comprehensive regulation on artificial intelligence, comes into force. The AI Act is designed to...

Chad Mirkin, director of the International Institute for Nanotechnology at Northwestern University in Chicago, received one quarter of this year’s Kavli...

Academics in 12 countries are excessively citing their own scholarly papers, according to an analysis of 24 years of data. The authors of the study, published in PLoS...

Fabricating data, throwing academic shade at other scientists, publishing a mountain of papers that receive a towering heap of citations: cynics might describe...

In November 2013, Elisabeth Bik reported five papers containing what she thought was “pretty obvious” plagiarized text in Karger’s Digestive Diseases to the journal’s...

A group of researchers in Iran now have had more than 60 papers retracted for concerns about peer review and plagiarism as a publisher investigates its back catalog...

The paper by Charles Conteh, a professor at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario, appeared in Sage’s Outlook on Agriculture in October 2023. It has one citation...

What to do when an editor informed that a manuscript submitted to their journal has also been submitted to other journals at the same time. The COPE's flowchart...