The rush for scientific cures and treatments for Covid-19 has opened the floodgates of direct communication between scientists and the public. Instead of waiting for their work to go through the slow ...

Signs of trouble are turning up at the biggest scientific journals and the publishers that host them. In December, nearly ...

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.

Jeffrey R. Young’s article “Boycott Over Lack of Online Access to Journals Is a Bust” (May 31) summarized nicely the pros and cons of the existing intellectual-property practices of most major ...

Anil Oza is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the NIH and health equity. You can reach him on Signal at aniloza.16. Donald Trump has changed the way scientists engage with presidential ...

Jonathan Wosen is STAT’s West Coast biotech & life sciences reporter. You can reach Jonathan on Signal at jwosen.27. In a stark sign of scientists’ escalating frustration with how academic journals ...

As scientists race to understand the coronavirus, the process of designing experiments, collecting data and submitting studies to journals for expert review is being compressed drastically. What ...

These days, much online prose feels generic—flattened voice, repeated language, and similar punctuation. AI may now be infiltrating science journals ...

Over the course of the pandemic, many scientific papers have made headlines for detailing new information that can help stop the spread of Covid-19 and treat the people infected with it. This ...

As the internet evolves, webpages that were live years ago are frequently no longer available today. In some cases, that’s for the best (so long, embarrassing MySpace profiles), but it is a concern ...