Behind the polished facade of peer-reviewed journals lurks a growing epidemic of junk science — propped up by predatory publishers, ignored conflicts of interest, and research so bad it refuses to die ...

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Google Scholar is a searchable database of academic literature. It connects users with studies and journal articles on nearly any topic of scholarly interest. Google Scholar is free to search, but ...

This is the third part of a series on academic publishing. Read part one here and part two here. For many years, the ...

The BMJ is an international peer reviewed medical journal and a fully "online first" publication. Our publishing model–"continuous publication"– means that all articles appear on bmj.com before being ...

Part of our training in graduate school involves fine-tuning the skill of academic research. And a lot of graduate school programs will insist that the holy grail of publishing opportunities lies in ...

Text-generating artificial intelligence (AI) models, such as ChatGPT, have the potential to "revolutionize the field of medical writing" by automating tasks and increasing efficiency throughout the ...

A peer-reviewed journal recently published a mind-bending paper. It begins with a highly technical section about groundwater seepage before delving into a lively discussion of dance training. The ...

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It has become harder than ever for researchers to get their work published in top-tier, peer-reviewed journals, says Alison McCook, the magazine’s news editor. As the number of rejection letters to ...

Preprint servers and peer-reviewed journals are seeing surging audiences, with many new readers not well versed in the limitations of the latest research findings. By Wudan Yan Early on Feb. 1, John ...