There are many valid reasons for an academic journal to reject a scientific paper, but concerns over the political implications of its findings aren’t among them. Yet that’s what happened to Theodore ...

A lawsuit recently filed by scientists against six major academic journal publishers shines a spotlight on a long-standing issue that echoes the broader problems in academia itself: an excessive ...

Avery is vice chair for addiction psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian. For much of the 20th century, the academic medicine ideal was clear: a physician-researcher supported ...

Since the 1990s, some academic netizens have predicted that open access will upend scholarly journal publishing, yet an oligopoly still dominates the $25-billion industry. Orvium, a European start-up, ...

It is not surprising that most academics are incompetent. To write a good academic paper, you must master the method of writing academic papers. I write my paper regularly and have been involved in ...

Linkresearcher, an academic communication service platform under "Global Science," the Chinese version of the "Scientific American," collaborated with Impact Science, a Cactus Communications (CACTUS) ...

The US National Institutes of Health will soon release a plan to cap academic-journal publishing fees. The caps are a response to rising costs for publishing the results of NIH-funded research. Some ...

If you’re not sure how to identify a scholarly source when conducting research, rest assured that you’re not alone. Here are some important clues and techniques to help you identify which sources are ...