A lawsuit recently filed by scientists against six major academic journal publishers shines a spotlight on a long-standing issue that echoes the broader problems in academia itself: an excessive ...

A top management journal measured AI’s impact on submissions and reviews. Submissions rose 42%, writing quality declined and ...

An emeritus professor at the University of Missouri, Arthur Jago, in a recent Chronicle of Higher Education article was skeptical of the claim that a majority of academic journal articles are never ...

Editors at a leading management research journal report that submissions have risen sharply since ChatGPT’s release, but many AI-assisted papers show weaker prose and higher rejection rates. An ...

A leading social science journal has found that AI-assisted writing is driving a surge in academic paper submissions but lowering overall writing quality. A study of nearly 7,000 submissions and ...

Starting a journal is hard enough – keeping it going is an ongoing challenge. Here’s how to maintain success in academic publishing Starting a new academic journal is an uphill struggle from the ...

In a field like gender studies, what constitutes a respectable outlet? We can make progress toward answering that question by utilizing SCImago's ranking of academic journals. Last week, a funny and ...

Nobody likes negative feedback but rejection is not all bad. Here is how to see rejection of your article by a peer-reviewed journal as an opportunity Most academic activities involve competitive ...

Adam Habib does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

Every university has a list of A journals, those it considers to be the most prestigious in its field. Even the journals that rank institutions have such lists, and many universities use them to ...

The cost of academic journals has increased steeply over the past few decades and continues to climb. Academic libraries, already caught in an economic squeeze, are finding it difficult to acquire new ...