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Education

The Hoax That Backfired: How an Attempt to Discredit Gender Studies Will Only Strengthen It

The latest academic stunt to receive widespread coverage raises interesting points about vanity journals and peer review, but we must also question the motives of the authors.

James McWilliams

Social Justice

Labs Rarely Report Clinical-Trial Data on Time

According to United States law, studies of potential medicines and diagnostics are supposed to make their results publicly available within 12 months. But up to half of studies don’t follow the rules—and no one has ever faced penalties.

Francie Diep

Education

Unbundling Academia—It’s Not Just for Cable Anymore

So-called "open access" academic publishing saves money and has political backing. But is it a good idea?

Michael Todd

Education

U.S. Excels at Producing Suspect Behavioral Science

The mythbusters of academe take on soft science from the United States, and find a propensity toward aggrandizement.

Michael Todd

Education

The Pernicious Mission Creep of Ranking Academic Journals

The use of journal rankings to rate individual papers, scientists, and even programs has upset loads of people in academia. One paper's solution: Get rid of journals.

Michael Todd

Environment

Pulling the Curtain Back From Scientific Publishing

A lot of science's ills have been traced to the way it gets published. What if researchers laid out their dirty laundry before even donning a lab coat?

Michael Todd

Education

Academic Publishing Flirts With the You(Test)Tube Age

A look at the Journal of Visualized Experiments, the first journal devoted to publishing scientific research in a video format.

Michael Todd

Education

Spoofing Peer Review: Sock Puppets Publish or Perish

Academic research is the lifeblood of Pacific Standard, and without getting too high and mighty, its rigor is…

Michael Todd