Inside Higher Ed

The Growing Problem of Scientific Research Fraud

When a group of researchers at Northwestern University uncovered evidence of widespread—and growing—research fraud in scientific publishing, editors at some academic journals weren’t exactly rushing ...
The Conversation

A new ‘AI scientist’ can write science papers without any human input. Here’s why that’s a problem

Karin Verspoor receives funding from the Australian Research Council, the Medical Research Future Fund, the National Health and Medical Research Council, and Elsevier BV. She is affiliated with ...
ZDNet

GPT-5 is speeding up scientific research, but still can't be trusted to work alone, OpenAI warns

GPT-5 supports researchers across disciplines, a study found. The model doesn't rival human researchers, however. The findings don't indicate AGI is coming soon. OpenAI's recently released model, ...
The Conversation

Show your working: how the ‘open science’ movement tackles scientific misconduct

Danny Kingsley is a member of the National Open Science Taskforce, a Board member of FORCE11 (Future of Research Communications and eScholarship) and a member of the Royal Society Advisory Group on ...
Inside Higher Ed

Can We Trust Social Science Research?

Is social science research trustworthy? The economist Noah Smith raises this question in a recent piece entitled “How many of our ‘facts’ about society health, and the economy are fake?” As he points ...