In the course of university and graduate school life, the task of searching for previous research is something you will ...

In the 1800s, British colonists in India set about trying to reduce the cobra population, which was making life and trade very difficult in Delhi. They began to pay a bounty for dead cobras. The ...

Dozens of academic papers have fake references in them that have been made up by AI, according to new research from the University of Auckland.

One of the first things you'll discover as a college student is that writing in college is different from writing in high school. Certainly a lot of what your high school writing teachers taught you ...

Research papers in peer-reviewed academic journals are at the heart of academic integrity. New ideas and discoveries are vetted and checked by experts in the field as the boundaries of scientific ...

According to one study, which was presumably read by more than three people, half of all academic papers are read by no more than three people. At one of the first academic conferences I ever attended ...

An emeritus professor at the University of Missouri, Arthur Jago, in a recent Chronicle of Higher Education article was skeptical of the claim that a majority of academic journal articles are never ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...

A colleague of mine recently posted a plea on an open forum asking for someone with access to please send her a copy of a journal article. This colleague works at one of the premier research ...

You've probably heard the expression "publish or perish," which describes the pressure to publish research in order to succeed in an academic career. You'd think that conducting the research needed to ...