Writing academic assignments at university can be stressful, especially if it is your first time preparing a full research paper. Many African students face real barriers: limited access to digital ...

Researchers design studies that might disprove what’s called their null hypothesis – the opposite of the claim they’re interested in exploring.

China's scientific journals have seen increased academic influence and significant quality improvement in the past decade, according to the Blue Book on China's Scientific Journal Development (2024) ...

Abstract: This study presents the first comprehensive systematic literature review examining the patterns and trends of social media use among Asian scholars for scholarly communication and the ...

From fraudulent research coming out of paper mills, to data fabrication showing up in published papers, academic journals have a quality control issue on their hands. According to a study in Nature, ...

Avery is vice chair for addiction psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian. For much of the 20th century, the academic medicine ideal was clear: a physician-researcher supported ...

The US National Institutes of Health will soon release a plan to cap academic-journal publishing fees. The caps are a response to rising costs for publishing the results of NIH-funded research. Some ...

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.

This piece was updated on Oct. 6. Predatory journals are publications that present themselves as legitimate academic journals but prioritize profit by charging authors a fee while sidestepping ...

Organizations and scholars concerned with academic freedom are raising the alarm over the firing of a Texas A&M University instructor who was dismissed on Tuesday after videos of a classroom exchange ...

Top-tier academic journals such as Nature, Science, the New England Journal of Medicine, and the Lancet have published reams of research funded by the Chinese Communist Party in recent years, a ...