Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Taxpayers fund a lot of university research in the U.S., and these findings published in scholarly journals often produce major ...

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 ...

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, ...

If research is to shape public debate, support students and inform society, academics must learn how to collaborate with ...

A lawsuit recently filed by scientists against six major academic journal publishers shines a spotlight on a long-standing issue that echoes the broader problems in academia itself: an excessive ...

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 its August edition, Resources Policy, an academic journal under the Elsevier publishing umbrella, featured a peer-reviewed study about how ecommerce has affected fossil fuel efficiency in ...

While developing his theory of natural selection, Charles Darwin was horrified by a group of wasps that lay their eggs within the bodies of caterpillars, with the larvae eating their hosts alive from ...

A new study published in Theory and Society suggests that published research in the social sciences has leaned consistently ...