Elicit aims to develop a tool to automate the more tedious parts of the scientific literature review process. For researchers, reading scientific papers can be immensely time-consuming.

Can AI review the scientific literature — and figure out what it all means? Artificial intelligence could help speedily summarize research. But it comes with risks.

The Scientific Literature Can’t Save You Now You can cite peer-reviewed research in support of almost any claim, no matter how absurd. By Adam Marcus and Ivan Oransky ...

It seems like we’re just weeks away from a tsunami of fake papers hitting the peer-reviewed literature, swamping editors and drowning the scientific process in an ocean of garbage. Advertisement ...

Peer review, supposedly the gold standard of scientific respectability, is increasingly a fraud. On the one hand it takes the form of “pal review” in which scientists usher their chums’ papers into ...

The peer review process is central to science – but it can be easily manipulated. Improving it is vital to uphold research integrity. Peer review is meant to prevent scientific misconduct.

For researchers, reading scientific papers can be immensely time-consuming. According to one survey, scientists spend seven hours each week searching for information. Another survey suggests that ...

Another survey suggests that systematic reviews of literature -- scholarly syntheses of the evidence on a particular topic -- take an average of 41 weeks for a five-person research team. At least ...

For researchers, reading scientific papers can be immensely time-consuming. According to one survey, scientists spend seven hours each week searching for information. Another survey suggests that ...