Reporting Research

The economics of scholarly publishing have shifted substantially in the past decade: global spending on article processing charges (APCs) grew rapidly between 2019 and 2023, and…

Every published paper is only as durable as the scrutiny that follows it: recent monitoring shows almost 55,000 recorded retractions in 2024 alone, reflecting both the growth of…

Editors desk-reject a large share of submissions before peer review, and language problems are repeatedly flagged as a top avoidable reason. For early-career and experienced…

A clear argument and rigorous methods can be undermined by unclear structure or uneven presentation. Improved writing is not merely cosmetic. Empirical and industry analyses…

A manuscript’s first impression often determines whether it crosses the editorial threshold. Professional providers report millions of authors seeking editorial support worldwide,…

The biomedical literature has expanded rapidly: PubMed indexed more than 27 million records through 2024, reflecting steep growth in biomedical outputs and an expanding set of…

A recent landscape study found more than 32,700 suspected fake papers linked to organised “paper mills,” and concluded that fraudulent outputs are growing faster than…

A growing number of retractions and high-profile exposures have focused attention on the many faces of scientific fraud and on the limits of peer review to catch them before…

A recent large-scale analysis found that only about 3.9% of Web of Science–indexed publications (2010–2019) were cited at least once in policy documents, underscoring how…

Generative AI is now embedded in scholarly workflows: Turnitin reported that its detector reviewed more than 200 million student papers and found that 11% contained…

A growing number of high-profile corrections and mass retractions has put peer review squarely in the spotlight: when the gatekeeping system fails, the consequences extend…

Researchers increasingly rely on digital searches and large bibliographic databases to build literature reviews, yet determining which sources are reliable remains a central…