Taxpayers fund a lot of university research in the U.S., and these findings published in scholarly journals often produce major breakthroughs in medicine, vehicle safety, food safety, criminal justice ...

While developing his theory of natural selection, Charles Darwin was horrified by a group of wasps that lay their eggs within the bodies of caterpillars, with the larvae eating their hosts alive from ...

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 ...

When writer Cory Doctorow introduced the term "enshittification" in 2023, he captured a pattern many users had already noticed in their personal lives.

It is law review submission season, so I have had many conversations lately both on and off of social media about the student-run law review system. This recent poll by Professor Derek Muller was ...

I pray that the new year, 2026, unfolds with fresh opportunities, meaningful growth, and endless possibilities. Amid ...

DeWitt Scott is a doctoral candidate in Educational Leadership at Chicago State University. You can follow him on Twitter at @dscotthighered. Obtaining success and recognition in the halls of academia ...

In the Trump administration, even academic journals of medical research are being scrutinized for being too woke. On April 14, the peer-reviewed medical journal CHEST, which focuses on respiratory ...

Academics today, around the world, are confined by the way their research output is measured. Indicators that count the ...

If you’re not sure how to identify a scholarly source when conducting research, rest assured that you’re not alone. Here are some important clues and techniques to help you identify which sources are ...