
Why is the popularity of short communications decreasing?
Learn about the importance of short communications in scientific publishing and the potential impact of their decline.
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Learn about the importance of short communications in scientific publishing and the potential impact of their decline.
Find out why journals are planning to ask authors, reviewers, and editors about their gender, race, and ethnicity.
Read about the proposed actions to increase social justice in scientific publishing.
Get up to date with the growing fraudulent impersonation problem hitting journals publishing special issues.
Find out the long-term effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the scientific community.
Preprints have changed the way that authors can receive feedback on their manuscript; but when does it verge on ‘unethical’ duplicate peer review?
Find out how artificial intelligence tools are influencing the future of scientific communication.
Read the results of a pilot study on the impact of data availability statements on publication workflows.
The suggestion that preprints could replace traditional journals has been debated. Dr Haseeb Irfanullah provides arguments against this view.
Research from higher-status institutions and countries is postulated to receive more favourable peer review. A recent article suggests this may not be the case.
A new study looks at why researchers may question their past conclusions and how likely they are to disclose this publicly.
Nature analyses the ongoing battle publishers are facing against paper mills and what editors are doing to identify these fake articles.
How many predatory journals are indexed on the citation database Scopus, and what can be done to address the issue?
Find out why PLOS wants institutions to pay an annual open access fee under the Community Action Publishing model, rather than charging researchers per article.
Cabells and CIBER Research tell us why predatory publishing remains commonplace across the world.
Find out more about what was covered at this year’s online conference of the Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association (OASPA).