T he adage is “publish or perish” but everyone knows the odds aren’t even. For most academics who submit a manuscript to a desirable publisher or journal, the painful reality is that perishing is the ...

A university press’s efforts to assess the implications of open access pushed it to join a growing chorus of voices calling for reform of the incentive structures straining the academic publishing ...

BY MONDAY NTO BEREH The concern raised by Timi Olubiyi (2026)  regarding the proliferation of predatory journals and ...

An unusual lawsuit that seeks to break up an alleged multibillion-dollar “scheme” by academic-publishing behemoths has made waves since it was filed last week. While the effort gives prominent voice ...

The past year has thrown divisions in how we share and consume information into sharp focus: expertise vs. disinformation, the internet vs. traditional media, the rigor of science vs. the rumor of the ...

While the pressure to publish starts early in an academic’s career, RIT doctoral student Israa Thiab has a strategy to get the work done without the anxiety. Thiab, a student in the Golisano Institute ...

“We continue to be passionate about fresh light being shed on big questions. Scholars are doing lots of that in countless fields we’re active in—from psychology to history, law to literature—and of ...

Sci-Hub, an article pirating service, is one of the Web’s best-kept open secrets. But lately, it has been in the news, transcending debates that usually involve a small band of academics, publishers, ...

Palaeontologist Jon Tennant has a call to action for researchers: It’s time to take back control over who publishes your work. The world of scholarly communication is broken. Giant, corporate ...

I recently spent an hour trying to respond to a review of a paper that my lab submitted to one of the top machine learning (ML) conferences. These are considered the most prestigious places to publish ...

Patrick Burns does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Academic publishing is famously difficult. Many jokes have been made, for instance, regarding hypothetical “Reviewer 2”—a reviewer who is so heartless and nasty toward your work that you may well ...