There are many valid reasons for an academic journal to reject a scientific paper, but concerns over the political implications of its findings aren’t among them. Yet that’s what happened to Theodore ...

A lawsuit recently filed by scientists against six major academic journal publishers shines a spotlight on a long-standing issue that echoes the broader problems in academia itself: an excessive ...

Since the 1990s, some academic netizens have predicted that open access will upend scholarly journal publishing, yet an oligopoly still dominates the $25-billion industry. Orvium, a European start-up, ...

It is not surprising that most academics are incompetent. To write a good academic paper, you must master the method of writing academic papers. I write my paper regularly and have been involved in ...

The US National Institutes of Health will soon release a plan to cap academic-journal publishing fees. The caps are a response to rising costs for publishing the results of NIH-funded research. Some ...