WTF?! A new development in academic publishing has been uncovered in a recent investigation: researchers are embedding hidden instructions in preprint manuscripts to influence artificial intelligence ...

Some scholarly publishers are embracing artificial intelligence tools to help improve the quality and pace of peer-reviewed research in an effort to alleviate the longstanding peer review crisis ...

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Attached to the Very Large Telescope in Chile, the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) allows researchers to probe the most distant galaxies. It’s a popular instrument: for its next observing ...

Paper mill fraud is overwhelming peer review systems, with publishers like Hindawi retracting thousands of fraudulent articles. AI and automated tools are now being deployed to detect and prevent such ...

Traditionally, scientific publishing happened behind the scenes, with only the final product of a new scientific article shared with the research community at the end of the process. The efforts of ...

None of the most widely used large language models (LLMs) that are rapidly upending how humanity is acquiring knowledge has faced independent peer review in a research journal. It’s a notable absence.