For this assignment, you will read and mark two of your peers’ drafts and write a letter to each peer identifying areas for revision with suggestions for revision. For two of your peers’ essay drafts, ...

Peer review ensures quality in academic research by having experts evaluate and validate study results before publication, crucial for maintaining scholarly integrity.

All Nature Portfolio journals, including Communications Biology, offer a double anonymized peer review option. Authors may choose this option at submission to remain anonymous to referees prior to ...

Rescuing Science: Restoring Trust in an Age of Doubt was the most difficult book I've ever written. I'm a cosmologist—I study the origins, structure, and evolution of the Universe. I love science. I ...

Traditionally, scientific publishing happened behind the scenes, with only the final product of a new scientific article shared with the research community at the end of the process. The efforts of ...

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Opinion pieces from C&EN staff addressing core issues in chemistry. For 300 years or so after the creation of the scientific journals, those journals would unsystematically decide what to publish on ...

Researchers have been sneaking secret messages into their papers in an effort to trick artificial intelligence (AI) tools into giving them a positive peer-review report. Authors of the studies ...

A collage shows a red X over a person in a chemistry lab conducting an experiment. Credit: Madeline Monroe/C&EN/Shutterstock More than 20% of chemistry researchers ...