The peer-review process, which is used by scientific journals to validate legitimate research, is now under legal scrutiny. The US District Court for the Southern District of New York will soon rule ...

Half of scientific peer reviewers now rely on artificial intelligence to evaluate manuscripts, yet 75% of researchers report ...

Publishers often charge authors to publish their publicly-funded research. Will a federal crackdown make a difference?

The National Institutes of Health longstanding "payline" has helped everyone see the connection between the scientific peer review process and NIH grant funding decisions. What will the latest NIH ...

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

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 ...

Peer review came about to ensure new scientific claims are vetted by scientists prior to publication. The practice is captured in the Ingelfinger Rule, named for the former editor in chief of the New ...

"Peer review" of scientific articles before publication is often considered the "gold standard" of reliability, but its luster has become tarnished by greed – the desire of the research community to ...