In graduate school, when I first heard the saying “publish or perish,” I remember it uttered as a dire warning: If you want to make it as a professor, you have to publish, publish, publish — and never ...

The president of Stanford University, Marc Tessier-Lavigne, stepped down on Aug. 31, 2023 — not because of retirement or personal reasons, but because 12 reports that listed him as an author contained ...

The traditional pressure in academia for faculty to "publish or perish" advances knowledge in established areas. But it also might discourage scientists from asking the innovative questions that are ...

As the next generation of scientists and researchers contemplate the projects they’ll tackle this autumn, I think of the old adage “publish or perish,” which still rings true for many graduate ...

Recorded November 12, 2023. This transcript has been edited for clarity. Robert A. Harrington, MD: Hi. I'm Bob Harrington from Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City. I'm here at the American Heart ...

While developing his theory of natural selection, Charles Darwin was horrified by a group of wasps that lay their eggs within the bodies of caterpillars, with the larvae eating their hosts alive from ...

Former Harvard president Claudine Gay apparently committed plagiarism, and what scholarship she did produce was neither terribly original nor valuable. Evolutionary biologist and Manhattan Institute ...

Some academics publish a lot – and others publish at moderate rates, or not at all. It has always been so. I have focused in my previous blogs about European universities on “internationals” and ...