We are having difficulty finding a second reviewer for your manuscript.” This is a response we have received more than once ...

The Environmental Protection Agency is taking steps intended to “restore public faith” in the agency’s Science Advisory Board, EPA said Monday. The agency says the changes will tweak the process the ...

Half of Science Reviewers Use Artificial Intelligence. Three-Quarters Of Researchers Don’t Know When Publishers Do In A Nutshell AI has quietly transformed peer review: 53% of peer reviewers now use ...

Agency staff members say that the changes are reasonable, but they are worried about the potential effects on review.

Medical Laboratory Scientist at bench with micropipettes. — Courtesy U.S. National Institutes of Health (Public Domain) Medical Laboratory Scientist at bench with micropipettes. — Courtesy U.S.

Peer-reviewed research is the gold standard for science. We rely on that system to weed out the discoveries from the detritus. However, growing concerns over how the peer-review system operates are ...

The world of science has a problem with too much centralization and not enough incentivization, at least according to supporters of the decentralized science (DeSci) movement. Among those supporters ...

The following types of contribution to Nature Portfolio journals are peer-reviewed: Articles, Letters, Brief Communications, Matters Arising, Technical Reports, Analysis, Resources, Reviews, ...

Traditionally, scientific publishing happened behind the scenes, with only the final product of a new scientific article shared with the research community at the end of the process. The efforts of ...

Some requests by reviewers to cite their own publications are coercive and can unnecessarily delay indexation and publication.

It is expected that in 2025, approximately three million articles will be indexed in Scopus and the Web of Science. If each undergoes peer review by two experts, and an additional 2 million articles ...

Catherine Clase has received consultation, advisory board membership or research funding from the Ontario Ministry of Health, Sanofi, Pfizer, Leo Pharma, Astellas, Janssen, Amgen, Boehringer-Ingelheim ...