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slate.comscience32 days ago
Study Links Tough Peer Reviews to Higher Scientific Impact
An analysis of peer-review files from Nature Communications found papers that received major revisions later showed greater scientific impact than those accepted with fewer changes. The study examined 8,000 papers published between 2017 and 2024.
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The Vergetechnology37 days ago
AI Tools Drive Surge in Papers Analyzing Public Health Datasets
Researchers have traced a surge in low-value studies generated with AI assistance that cite the Global Burden of Disease study and NHANES survey. Journal editors report doubled submissions and growing difficulty distinguishing human from machine-generated work. OpenAI released it…
medpagetoday.comai46 days ago
IOPP Launches AI Tool to Identify Overlapping Peer-Review Reports
Institute of Physics Publishing presented its Duplicate Review Checker at an international research integrity conference and announced its deployment across all journals. The AI system flagged nearly 2,500 suspicious reports in an analysis of half a million submissions between 20…
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Jan Boa / Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)science59 days ago
BMJ Group Retracts Guest-Edited Special Edition on Cancer Immunotherapies Amid Broader Publishing Concerns
The publishing group of the British Medical Journal retracted nearly an entire guest-edited special edition of the Journal of Medical Genetics last week. The move highlights ongoing concerns with research integrity in special issues. Retractions and data point to widespread issue…