For example, biologists tend to cite each other’s work a lot, which may have helped biology papers rise to the top. But that doesn’t mean that biology is more important or influential than ...

Some sleuths fear that the business of cleaning up flawed studies is being weaponized against science itself. For years, ...

In 1900, papers in Science and Nature were about as accessible to a general audience as pieces in the New York Times, ... Take, for example, ...

'AI Scientist' Writes Science Papers Without Human Input. ... Here again, there are plenty of examples of peer review online on sites such as openreview.net that can guide how to critique a paper.

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In an earlier article “what makes bad science” was discussed, together with examples of bad scientific practice, and we offered tips for critically reading a science paper. In this article the ...

For example, a paper titled “Science in the age of selfies”, published in 2016, warned of a shifting incentive-and-information landscape in biology, particularly neuroscience, ...