A group of major academic publishers convinced a judge in New York to dismiss a lawsuit accusing them of thwarting ...

Climate science has been hijacked by philosophical globalism and alarmism, psychology research is controlled by gender, ...

Gale Sinatra, professor of psychology and the Stephen H. Crocker Professor of Education at the University of Southern California, is stepping down as associate editor of the American Psychological ...

Thousands of scientific papers are retracted every year because of fraudulent activity, with both authors and journals gaming a system to gain academic acclaim through deceit, dishonesty and false ...

P eer review didn’t always feel like a burden, Jonas R. Kunst said. Kunst, a professor of cultural and community psychology at the University of Oslo, used to enjoy the process, in which scholars ...

A new database aiming to clarify how peer review is conducted at different scholarly journals launched in March. The free-to-use tool, called the Platform for Responsible Editorial Policies, or PREP, ...

D avid Moher is painfully aware that the academic-publishing model is in trouble. As director of the Centre for Journalology in Ottawa, Canada, Moher studies how academics conduct research and how ...

In an industry where publications affect promotions and grant acceptances, this delay is significant, said the study, conducted by the University of Nevada, USA and published in PLOS Biology.

Reviewer 1: “This manuscript is a timely and important contribution to the field, with clear methodology and compelling results. I recommend publication with only minor revisions.” Reviewer 2: “This ...

An analysis of 145 scholarly journals found that, among various factors that could contribute to gender bias and lesser representation of women in science, the peer review process itself is unlikely ...

In the dozen years we have co-edited the journal ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature, we have read many external reports supplied by colleagues in our discipline. We have also written ...