Over the holiday weekend, all but one member of the editorial board of Elsevier’s Journal of Human Evolution (JHE) resigned “with heartfelt sadness and great regret,” according to Retraction Watch, ...

The rise of artificial intelligence has produced serial writers to science and medical journals, most likely using chatbots to boost the number of citations they’ve published. By Gina Kolata Letters ...

R. Preston McAfee, former editor of The American Economist, once wrote, “I’ve spent a considerable amount of time as an editor. I’ve rejected about 2,500 papers, and accepted 200 … Fortunately, there ...

No one goes to graduate school to become a scholarly editor, and very few of us are taught how to edit while we’re there. Still, plenty of us can end up doing important editing work at some point in ...

Nearly one-third of all retracted papers at PLoS ONE can be traced back to just 45 researchers who served as editors at the journal, an analysis of its publication records has found. “The footprints ...

I agree with Carlotta Shearson that “small fee” was not a good term to use in my Feb. 21 letter regarding the editing of manuscripts for poor English (C&EN, April 25, page 3). A better term would be ...