Beyond Accept or Reject: The New Models Reshaping Peer Review
From published reports and portable reviews to preprint assessment, reviewer credit and AI rules, peer review is diversifying faster than the evidence on it.
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11 November 2026Staff-reported · Editorially independent
Research Integrity
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More Retractions: Is Science Getting Worse or More Transparent?
A retraction count is a warning sign, not a complete diagnosis of the scientific system. The reasons behind the numbers matter.
Inside the Paper Mill Problem: How Fabricated Research Reaches Journals
Suspicious manuscripts do not always arrive with obvious warning signs. Some are designed to look like ordinary submissions.
Trust Should Be Designed Into Scholarly Publishing
Corrections metadata, persistent identifiers, contributor roles, linked data and editorial audit trails make the history of a paper checkable.