University of Melbourne In April 2019, Daejung Kim, then a Ph.D. student at the University of Melbourne in Australia, found a draft manuscript on the desk of a postdoc in the same laboratory. The m…

Examples of “boilerplate” text used in the suspect reviews.M.A. Oviedo-Garcia et al/medRxiv 2025 A network of peer reviewers in Italy is targeting medical journals, threatening “both the scientific…

China is emerging as a leading research nation across a wide range of disciplines, with more original innovations being published in journals by the Netherlands-based publishing and information analyt...

Smoking is a common practice of recreational drug use. Smoking has been known for its adverse effects on both physical and mental health. Smoking also leads to nicotine dependence, which produces vari...

Smoking is a common practice of recreational drug use. Smoking has been known for its adverse effects on both physical and mental health. Smoking also leads to nicotine dependence, which produces vari...

<i>CRISPR Technologies – Advances in Genome Editing, Applications, and Ethical Implications</i> provides a comprehensive overview of one of the most revolutionary tools in contemporary biotechnology. ...

Chlorophyll is a widely known photosynthetic pigment in plants, algae, and cyanobacteria, along with bacteriochlorophyll in some photosynthetic bacteria. The pigments consist of tetrapyrrole structure...

3dalia/iStock What would you do if you discovered your name in a list of experts on sex robots despite having never studied sex robots?  That was the situation for one rather panicked research…

Pada awal 2025, komunitas ilmiah internasional terkejut. Proposal pemerintahan Donald Trump mengusulkan pemangkasan hampir 40 persen anggaran National Institutes of Health (NIH). Lembaga ini selama lebih dari setengah abad telah menjadi pusat penelitian biomedis dunia. Ia juga berperan sebagai pengelola berbagai basis data publik yang menopang sistem pengetahuan global. Di atas kertas, pemotongan tersebut tampak seperti langkah efisiensi fiskal. Namun di balik angka anggaran itu tersembunyi konsekuensi yang jauh lebih besar—yaitu ancaman terhadap infrastruktur data ilmiah yang menjadi fondasi pengambilan keputusan kesehatan di seluruh dunia, utamanya di negara dengan pembiayaan riset kesehatan yang rendah.

celafon/iStockPhoto Starting around 2023, a curious trend took hold in papers on drug safety monitoring. The number of articles published on an individual drug and its link to specific adverse even…

Earlier this year, Marc Halushka, a pathologist at Cleveland Clinic in Ohio,  came across a review titled simply “MicroRNA,” an unusually short title in a big field. Looking deeper into the re…

Dalam dunia akademik kontemporer, “dampak riset” telah menjadi kata kunci yang tidak bisa diabaikan. Lembaga pendanaan menuntutnya. Universitas mengangkatnya sebagai indikator kinerja. Peneliti menyisipkannya ke dalam proposal, laporan, dan strategi diseminasi. Tetapi di balik maraknya narasi dampak, terdapat ketegangan mendasar antara nilai ilmiah, tuntutan publik, dan manajemen berbasis hasil. Apakah dampak riset benar-benar tentang kontribusi terhadap masyarakat, atau telah menjadi mitos baru dalam birokrasi ilmu pengetahuan?

Google Scholar (GS) telah lama menjadi indikator cepat untuk menilai reputasi ilmiah. Gratis, mudah diakses, dan mencakup berbagai dokumen, platform ini jauh lebih populer daripada basis data komersial seperti Scopus atau Web of Science yang lebih komersial dalam pemanfaatannya. Sekalipun didirikan oleh perusahaan raksasa teknologi Google, pada kondisi ini GS dapat dimanfaatkan sebagai alat yang mudah, murah dan punya akses pemanfaatan data secara terbuka.

Nosyrevy/iStock Pseudonymous sleuth Claire Francis has flagged thousands of papers over the years, so they rarely see something new. But an email from Frontiers about an upcoming retraction on a pa…

An early-career researcher who discovered a nearly identical version of her manuscript published by the researcher who reviewed — and recommended rejecting — the work for another journal is still a…

A gastroenterologist and microbiome researcher who has promoted hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin as COVID treatments has lost a paper after a sleuth reported differences between the article and th…

Pada tahun-tahun awal 2010-an, istilah Open Science (OS) mungkin masih terdengar asing bagi sebagian besar akademisi Indonesia. Namun tidak bagi Dasapta Erwin Irawan, hidrologis dari Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB), yang kelak dikenal sebagai salah satu pelopor gerakan ini di tanah air, keterlibatannya bermula dari sesuatu yang lebih personal dan tak terencana. Sebuah waktu luang. "Kalau saya, idle time, kemudian serendipity lagi, saya kenal orang, orang itu mengenalkan open science, orang yang sama juga mengenalkan komunikasi sains, bahwa output research itu bukan hanya paper dalam jurnal."

Widespread mockery of AI-generated rat with giant penis in one paper brings problem to public attention

A screenshot from June 26 shows the book had been accessed 3,782 times. Springer Nature is retracting a book on machine learning that had multiple references to works that do not exist, Retraction …

Marcel Dinger A dean at an Australian university sought to correct some of his papers. He received a retraction instead. We wrote last year about Marcel Dinger, dean of science at the University of…