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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Taxpayers fund a lot of university research in the U.S., and these findings published in scholarly journals often produce major ...

The academic publishing system often allows scientific errors to persist because it prioritizes profit and prestige over timely correction.

Last month, the University of California reached an impasse with one of the world’s biggest publishers of academic journals over whether the company’s publications would be included in the ...

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

In its August edition, Resources Policy, an academic journal under the Elsevier publishing umbrella, featured a peer-reviewed study about how ecommerce has affected fossil fuel efficiency in ...

Every university has a list of A journals, those it considers to be the most prestigious in its field. Even the journals that rank institutions have such lists, and many universities use them to ...

Absolutely. It gives them access to important new ideas much earlier than popular books. But will they do it? Probably not. Leaders usually don't have the time to battle with the inaccessible prose of ...

Jillian Kay Melchior leaves out the major benefit of hoax articles submitted to and published by academic journals (“Fake News Comes to Academia,” op-ed, Oct. 6). You can say that hoaxes are unethical ...