After her website faced repeated domain name revocations, Sci-Hub founder Alexandra Elbakyan has registered her website on the distributed domain names network Handshake. The pirated database of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tor Constantino is an ex-reporter, turned AI consultant & tech writer. AI ethics are in question when scientific papers use AI ...

Bibliometricians and information scientists who study the scholarly literature as a whole have responded with dismay to Microsoft’s revelation that it is discontinuing its Microsoft Academic Graph ...

To conduct their analysis, the research team developed an automated verification system using AI that scanned 2.5 million ...

Meanwhile, the consequences of misinformation are only getting higher: People are using generative AI (gen AI) tools like ChatGPT to create fake research. A recent study published in the Harvard ...

Scientific research underpins the things we do. Huge investments are made capitalizing on technological developments; governments declare that their policies will be based on academic evidence; ...

In the summer of 2020, Anna Abalkina came across an advertisement online: a website was selling authorship of a chemistry paper that it said was to be published in a reputable journal in February 2021 ...

Over the past decade, furtive commercial entities around the world have industrialized the production, sale and dissemination of bogus scholarly research, undermining the literature that everyone from ...

Google's experimental tool Illuminate converts academic papers into podcast-style conversations, making complex research more ...