Quality of scientific papers questioned as academics ‘overwhelmed’ by the millions published

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Quality of scientific papers questioned as academics ‘overwhelmed’ by the millions published

theguardian.com/science/2025/jul/13/quality-of-scientific-papers-questioned-as-academics-overwhelmed-by-the-millions-published

It was, at first glance, just another scientific paper, one of the millions published every year, and destined to receive little to no attention outside the arcane field of biological signalling in stem cells destined to become sperm.
But soon after the paper was published online, in the…

This story appeared on theguardian.com, 2025-07-13 15:37:56.255000.