As scientific papers are written ... some authors may be tempted to avoid citing earlier or concurrent work from their own laboratories to enhance the apparent advance of a submitted study.

About 55,000 scholarly papers have been retracted to date, for a variety of reasons, but scientists and companies who screen ...

are of outstanding scientific importance reach a conclusion of interest to an interdisciplinary readership. Further editorial criteria may be applicable for different kinds of papers, as follows ...

Continue reading Perhaps a scientist or politician—and certainly a citizen-activist who hopes to be the nation’s leading health-policy official—should be wary of citing anything from this ...

After expunging all that liberal bias, a pair of new scientific papers flagged by Ars Technica — one of them by researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, another agency ...

Scientific fraud is becoming a larger issue. Thousands of fake scientific papers have flooded journals and have subsequently had to be retracted. Much of this is the work of paper mills ...

Climate change deniers are promoting an AI-generated paper questioning human-induced global warming, sparking concern among ...

Despite a government goal of becoming a global leader in science and technology, Japan actually slid one place to a record low 13th in most-cited scientific papers in the latest ranking.