'It's not fraudulent, and it's not really slop,' one expert says

'It's not fraudulent, and it's not really slop,' one expert says

With country now holding largest share of research retractions globally, scholars hope putting a number on the problem will trigger action

Explore the AI controversy in philosophy, addressing safety, integrity, and its transformative impact on research in this insightful article.

Fake Caroline update: The person who was impersonating me managed to get an article published in Science, under my by-line. And they got paid for it! I've seen the pitches (bad), and the email chai...

A little over a year ago, Cabells dipped its toe into the AI ocean and launched the beta version of CompassAI – an independent, cutting-edge tool for researchers to identify the journals with the best fit for their research. The launch has been incredibly successful, with great customer feedback and new use cases we hadn’t even thought of ourselves. Twelve months on, and we have used that feedback…

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What is a journal? What is research? What is AI’s role in either of these things? These and other existential questions have been bothering academics and publishers alike since the advent of Generative AI tools for common use nearly four years ago. One byproduct of this has been a sudden boost to the worth of philosophers, as they exhibit both the skills to prompt and analyze AI outputs, as well as the critical faculties to debate their use.

Criticisms of universities and their lack of formal training of PhD students are nothing new – 20 years ago, I personally heard this many times while giving talks on publishing at some of the top research universities in the UK, Australia and Western Europe. At the time it seemed shocking, but not surprising. Very little information seemed to shared by universities about how their faculty could publish their research, despite the fact that the resulting publications were the very thing universities were judged on to show their worth.

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Photo by Bermix Studio on Unsplash Anyone who has published an academic article will recognize the feeling of despair when receiving an email like the one below – clashing color schemes, weird formatting and multiple typos all point to the same conclusion – some predatory publisher is trying for the sixth time this week to entice me into publishing in their poor imitation of a journal.

Proposes applying principle of due diligence from law and business to scholarly communication

Explore how AI and predatory practices are reshaping scholarly publishing in 2026, and discover strategies for trust and informed decision-making.

Explore how AI and predatory practices are reshaping scholarly publishing in 2026, and discover strategies for trust and informed decision-making.

blog on OMB proposal in US to change federal funding, summarizing administration's plans and the negative responses

blog on OMB proposal in US to change federal funding, summarizing administration's plans and the negative responses

Explore the evolving landscape of scientific integrity, misinformation, and trust in research as we navigate the challenges of today's information age.

Explore the evolving landscape of scientific integrity, misinformation, and trust in research as we navigate the challenges of today's information age.

Today, we take an emotional journey through scholarly publishing and aim to understand how emotions impact authors', reviewers', and editors' experiences in the scholarly communications lifecycle.

April saw the curtain come down on one of the most remarkable resources available in business and management research. The Harzing Journal Quality List ( has been&nbsp…

June 2026 marks the 10th anniversary in the UK of its tectonic vote to leave the European Union. The so-called Brexit debate consumed the country at the time, and has continued to factor in almost every major political change the UK has had in the last decade – right up to and including the resignation of Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, heralding the arrival of no less than the seventh inhabitant of 10 Downing Street in that time. 

Community-owned, open-access title J·ROR aims to advance evidence-based improvements across the research ecosystem

In his widely cited - and widely misunderstood - book The End of History and the Last Man, historian and author Francis Fukuyama was heavily criticized for saying that the West had ‘won’ and that there would be no meaningful conflicts to trouble the world with the fall of the Iron Curtain in the late 1980s. The following 40 years or so seem to bear this criticism out, with 9/11, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and most recently the war in Iraq providing ample evidence that history is indeed still happening.  

The opinions expressed in this editorial are the personal views of the authors (S.E. Kahn, C.A.M. Anderson, J.B. Buse, and E. Selvin) and do not represent

Researchers told they could no longer attend the annual scientific sessions