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Why do researchers commit misconduct?
https://www.researchinformation.info/vie...isconduct/
EXCERPT: Science doesn’t exist in a vacuum; it is part of a system shaped by ambition and competition. This system often rewards speed and productivity – the number of funding wins, the volume of published research papers, and citation metrics – these are regarded as parameters of success. In an environment where the result of years of work is subject to metrics, scientists may feel the pressure to bend the rules. To understand why misconduct happens, we need to look at how systemic pressures and subsequent rewards shape how researchers work... (MORE - details)
In memoriam: The academic journal
https://arxiv.org/html/2512.23915v1
EXCERPTS: In this piece we reflect on the life and influence of AJ, the academic journal, charting their history and contributions to science, discussing how their influence changed society and how, in death, they will be mourned for what they once stood for but for which, in the end, they had moved so far from that they will be less missed than they might have been.
[...] And thus AJ entered the end-stage of life. No longer could people rely on the content, because the cost of creating fake material was so low, and the benefits so high. Now an academic could possibly publish half a dozen articles in a year, mostly because they could submit a hundred and hope a few got through. AJ couldn’t adapt - suddenly, their free raw material became mostly worthless, and the free processing they had relied on became worthless too, overwhelmed by quantity and plausible but uncheckable content... (MORE - details)
https://www.researchinformation.info/vie...isconduct/
EXCERPT: Science doesn’t exist in a vacuum; it is part of a system shaped by ambition and competition. This system often rewards speed and productivity – the number of funding wins, the volume of published research papers, and citation metrics – these are regarded as parameters of success. In an environment where the result of years of work is subject to metrics, scientists may feel the pressure to bend the rules. To understand why misconduct happens, we need to look at how systemic pressures and subsequent rewards shape how researchers work... (MORE - details)
In memoriam: The academic journal
https://arxiv.org/html/2512.23915v1
EXCERPTS: In this piece we reflect on the life and influence of AJ, the academic journal, charting their history and contributions to science, discussing how their influence changed society and how, in death, they will be mourned for what they once stood for but for which, in the end, they had moved so far from that they will be less missed than they might have been.
[...] And thus AJ entered the end-stage of life. No longer could people rely on the content, because the cost of creating fake material was so low, and the benefits so high. Now an academic could possibly publish half a dozen articles in a year, mostly because they could submit a hundred and hope a few got through. AJ couldn’t adapt - suddenly, their free raw material became mostly worthless, and the free processing they had relied on became worthless too, overwhelmed by quantity and plausible but uncheckable content... (MORE - details)