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Journals with high rates of suspicious papers flagged by science-integrity start-up

By analysing citations and authors’ publication records, Argos identifies ‘high risk’ papers that warrant further investigation.Credit: bernie_photo/Getty Which scientific publishers and journals are worst affected by fraudulent or dubious research papers — and which have done least to clean up their portfolio? A technology start-up founded to help publishers spot potentially problematic papers says that […]

Politics

She Exposed a Prestigious Medical Journal’s Silence on the Holocaust. Now She’s Asking About Gaza.

Earlier this year, two Harvard medical historians published an article on a leading American medical journal’s willful ignorance of Nazi atrocities in the 1930s and ’40s. The article found that the New England Journal of Medicine, one of the nation’s longest-running and most prestigious medical publications, either chose not to cover the Nazi regime’s racist […]