Peer review isn’t just about swapping papers—it’s a powerful tool to sharpen your writing and critical thinking. When done well, it builds confidence, fosters collaboration, and leads to stronger ...

George Chalhoub argues for transparent and enforceable guidelines for regulating the use of AI in scientific peer review. "AI is a tool, not a decision-maker. Protecting the credibility of the ...

There’s a controversy brewing over “AI-generated” studies submitted to this year’s ICLR, a long-running academic conference focused on AI. Sakana informed ICLR leaders before it submitted its ...

What is transparent peer review? All primary research papers published in Nature Communications that are submitted from November 1 st, 2022 will have a corresponding peer review file containing the ...

Editor’s Note: This article has been updated to provide more context about the scientific debates it describes. It now includes an expanded description of Kristian Andersen’s characterizations of what ...

In an era plagued by malevolent sources flooding the internet with misrepresentations, distortions, manipulated imagery and flat-out lies, it should come as some comfort that in at least one arena ...

Earlier this year I received comments on an academic manuscript of mine as part of the usual peer review process, and noticed something strange. My research focuses on ensuring trustworthy evidence is ...

“Greetings! You’ve been added to our journal’s editorial system because we believe you would serve as an excellent reviewer of [Unexciting Title] manuscript …” You probably get these, too. It feels ...

A Tokyo-based company has unveiled 'The AI Scientist,' an autonomous system that can generate research ideas, run experiments, and write full scientific papers. One of its papers was accepted at a ...

The latest in a series of high-profile retractions of research papers has people asking: What’s wrong with peer review? Scientific and medical journals use the peer-review process to decide which ...

The following types of contribution to Nature Portfolio journals are peer-reviewed: Articles, Letters, Brief Communications, Matters Arising, Technical Reports, Analysis, Resources, Reviews, ...