academic publishing
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Science Publisher Retracts 44 Papers for Being Utter Nonsense
The publisher Springer Nature was forced to retract over 40 papers from its Arabian Journal of Geosciences after realising they were nothing more than garbled jargon. This is just the latest in a series of shoddy research papers getting past the publisher.
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Why Thousands Of Researchers Are Boycotting Nature’s Upcoming AI Journal
Early next year, the Springer Nature publishing group will launch a new subscription journal devoted to artificial intelligence. Like its other journals, Nature will impose a pay wall and restrict access to paying customers – a move that isn’t going over well with AI researchers, who say a for-profit subscription journal is not what the…