science publishing
Study That Claimed AI Could Determine a Person’s Sexuality Is Under Ethical Review
The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology is reexamining a Stanford study after it received significant backlash.
There Are Now 8,000 Fake Science ‘Journals’ Worldwide, Researchers Say
Researchers from high-profile institutions are falling for these scams.
Fake Science News Is Just As Bad As Fake News
A Canadian journalist set out to get a fake article published in a scientific journal.
Scientists Are Worried About 'Peer Review by Algorithm’
A researcher scanned 50,000 papers for statistical errors using an automated system.
Mega-Publisher Elsevier Is Buying an Open Research Site. That's Bad for Science
Reed Elsevier just bought the Social Science Research Network, threatening its free access and pre-print model.
A Huge Study Found Less than Half of Psychology Findings Were Reproducible
More evidence that science isn’t as self-correcting as you might hope.
This Is the Twitter of Scientific Journals: 200 Words or Less
The Journal of Brief Ideas. Short science, now.
These Charities Want to Pay for Your Access to Scientific Journals
Open access publishing comes at a price, and a group of British charities are offering to pay.
Scientists Are Still Using Facebook to Study Human Behavior
Public outcry isn't enough to get researchers to lay off massive datasets about human behavior that are ripe for the picking.
A Neuroscientist Risked His Research to Publish These Photos
"The public should certainly have a goddamn say in my work."
This Map Shows the Huge Gender Gap in Science Publishing
Male authors wrote 70 percent of all scientific papers published in the last four years.