How bioRxiv changed the way biologists share ideas – in numbers
Neuroscience is the most represented field on the life-sciences preprint server bioRxiv.Credit: TEK Image/Science Photo Library A comprehensive…
advice from scientists who retracted their papers
Some researchers who retract their papers do so after others in the scientific community raise red flags to…
Chemist has 35 papers retracted within 2 years
A chemistry researcher has had 35 of his papers retracted within 24 months for a variety of…
these LLMs are willing to commit academic fraud
Credit: Smith Collection/Gado/Getty All major large language models (LLMs) can be used to either commit academic fraud or…
What can I do if my idea has been plagiarized?
The problem Dear Nature, I’m a neuroscientist in Japan. A few years ago, I put together what I…
Critical social media posts linked to retractions of scientific papers
Credit: Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Posts on social-media platform X that are critical of scientific research can act…
More than half of researchers now use AI for peer review — often against guidance
Survey results suggest that peer reviewers are increasingly turning to AI.Credit: Panther Media Global/Alamy More than 50% of…
Science sleuths raise concerns about scores of bioengineering papers
Image sleuths noticed irregularities in figures from scores of papers co-authored by Ali Khademhosseini.Credit: Natali Mis/Getty In December…
A ten-year drive to credit authors for their work — and why there’s still more to do
A decade ago, we and others launched a tool for clarifying the roles of each author of a…
‘Godfather of AI’ becomes first person to hit one million citations
Yoshua Bengio won the 2018 Turing Award for work on neural networks. Credit: The Canadian Press/Alamy Computer scientist…