This week's British Medical Journal raises concerns over whether journal rankings (known as impact factors) are distorting publishing and science. The impact factor is a measure of the citations to ...

One of the 15 publications that put out the most studies globally has been expelled from the indexing system for ...

Are editors manipulating citation scores in order to inflate the status of their publications? Are they corrupting the rankings of scholarly journals? While any allegations about cheating or other ...

Linkresearcher, an academic communication service platform under "Global Science," the Chinese version of the "Scientific American," collaborated with Impact Science, a Cactus Communications (CACTUS) ...

A growing tide of fake papers is flooding the scientific record and proliferating faster than current checks can rid them from the system, scientists warn. The source of the trouble is “paper mills,” ...

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