Academic journals are a lucrative scam – and we’re determined to change that
Arash Abizadeh
Giant publishers are bleeding universities dry, with profit margins that rival Google’s. So we decided to start our own, says academic Arash Abizadeh
June 2024
Tobacco giant accused of ‘manipulating science’ to attract non-smokers
Leaked documents from Philip Morris reveal ‘secret’ strategy to market its heated tobacco product IQOS
March 2024
How rightwing groups used junk science to get an abortion case before the US supreme court
Anti-abortion researchers ‘exaggerate’ and ‘obfuscate’ in their scientific papers – but by the time they’re published, it’s too late
February 2024
Science Weekly
Mistakes, fakes and a giant rat penis: why are so many science papers being retracted?
‘The situation has become appalling’: fake scientific papers push research credibility to crisis point
September 2023
Sheer stupidity is a threat to our scientific progress
Letters: Prof AM Celâl Şengör, Damian Pattinson and Jack Whalen respond to Giorgio Parisi’s article about how the world lost its trust in scientists
May 2023
Science Weekly
Is it the beginning of the end for scientific publishing? – podcast
‘Too greedy’: mass walkout at global science journal over ‘unethical’ fees
January 2023
Science journals ban listing of ChatGPT as co-author on papers
Some publishers also banning use of bot in preparation of submissions but others see its adoption as inevitable
April 2022
The Audio Long Read
From the archive: Is the staggeringly profitable business of scientific publishing bad for science? – podcast
The big idea
The big idea: should we get rid of the scientific paper?
March 2019
Paywalls block scientific progress. Research should be open to everyone
Jason Schmitt
To democratise scholarly publishing, individual academics need to take action
September 2018
Knowledge is part of the rip-off economy
Letters: Jonathan Spencer highlights how academic publishers profit, and Margaret Beetham criticises the ‘taxes on knowledge’
Who are the real pirates in academic publishing?
Letters: Readers respond to George Monbiot’s article on the global scientific publishing industry
Scientific publishing is a rip-off. We fund the research – it should be free
George Monbiot
Those who take on the global industry that traps research behind paywalls are heroes, not thieves, says George Monbiot
August 2018
Predatory publishers: the journals that churn out fake science
A Guardian investigation, in collaboration with German broadcaster Norddeutscher Rundfunk, reveals the open-access publishers who accept any article submitted for a fee
June 2018
Political science
Elsevier are corrupting open science in Europe
Jon Tennant
Elsevier - one of the largest and most notorious scholarly publishers - are monitoring Open Science in the EU on behalf of the European Commission. Jon Tennant argues that they cannot be trusted.
February 2018
Head quarters
Mindless eating: is there something rotten behind the research?
A storm of retractions, corrections, data irregularities and controversy over duplicate publication are destroying the credibility of Cornell’s Food and Brand Lab. It’s time for the university to be open about what’s going on
January 2018
Notes & Theories
'Professors eat their own young': how competition can stifle good science
There is often more pressure for scientists to work against each other than together – but why?
October 2017
Plagiarism is rife in academia, so why is it rarely acknowledged?
Anonymous academic
When a professor ripped off my work in a journal, they escaped unpunished. How can we expect academic originality from students if we don’t uphold it?
About 234 results for Peer review and scientific publishing
Head quartersMindless eating: is there something rotten behind the research?A storm of retractions, corrections, data irregularities and controversy over duplicate publication are destroying the credibility of Cornell’s Food and Brand Lab. It’s time for the university to be open about what’s going on
