Wiley’s decision to remove the longtime editor of a highly regarded philosophy journal from his post has sparked outrage, resignations, and promises of boycott. The dispute underscores how the ...

Federal officials are raising long-standing concerns with research journals and the academic incentive structures propping them up. But experts say the government alone can’t overhaul the industry.

In December 2024, the editorial board of the Journal of Human Evolution resigned en masse following disagreements with the journal’s publisher, Elsevier. The board’s grievances included claims of ...

At least three medical journals have received letters from the U.S. Department of Justice that questioned their editorial practices and standards, prompting several journals to push back and assert ...

A long-standing problem that affects publishers and authors alike, journal hijacking can damage reputations and steal article-processing fees. This raised suspicions among the editors, because the ...

The University of Wyoming invites faculty, staff, visiting scholars and graduate students to participate in a hands-on workshop facilitated by Bobur Sobirov beginning Monday, Oct. 27. Titled “Journal ...

Academic publishing is the bedrock of modern science: a published paper in a respected, peer-reviewed journal is the mark of scientific advancement, the hinge point upon which most technological, ...

The prominent academic journal Chemosphere is the latest title to lose its impact factor—a metric often controversially used to evaluate researchers and their work—after retracting a series of papers ...

Over the past few years, the email accounts of academics and of scientists, in particular, have been inundated with solicitations to submit papers to new online journals and, sometimes, even to serve ...