I recently spent an hour trying to respond to a review of a paper that my lab submitted to one of the top machine learning (ML) conferences. These are considered the most prestigious places to publish ...

While the pressure to publish starts early in an academic’s career, RIT doctoral student Israa Thiab has a strategy to get the work done without the anxiety. Thiab, a student in the Golisano Institute ...

The perennial pressure to publish or perish is intense as ever for faculty trying to advance their careers in an exceedingly tight academic job market. On top of their teaching loads, faculty are ...

Publishing research from your thesis or dissertation is an essential step in contributing to academic knowledge, advancing your career, and enhancing institutional prestige. However, turning a lengthy ...

When writer Cory Doctorow introduced the term "enshittification" in 2023, he captured a pattern many users had already noticed in their personal lives. The social media platforms, e-commerce sites and ...

Publishers often charge authors to publish their publicly-funded research. Will a federal crackdown make a difference?

Researchers who are using generative AI to write scientific papers are publishing a significantly higher number of studies, a new analysis finds (Science 2025, DOI: 10.1126/science.adw3000). The ...

This is the fourth part of a series on the crisis in academic research and publishing. Read the first three parts here, here ...