A major journal sees a 42% surge in AI-assisted scientific papers since late 2022. This rise coincides with a drop in writing ...
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 ...
When Adam Day built a method to compare the language in peer-review reports across scientific journals, he expected to find the occasional lazy reviewer recycling old comments. What he found instead ...
Reviewer 1: “This manuscript is a timely and important contribution to the field, with clear methodology and compelling results. I recommend publication with only minor revisions.” Reviewer 2: “This ...
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 ...