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The article focuses on academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert who was held in Iranian prison while attending conference in September 2018 convicted of spying and mentions letter from Moore-Gilbert on being forgotten.

The article presents the author's experience of facing rejection of his article in the world of academia and the lesson learned from this.

The author reflects on the controversy surrounding a hoax consisiting of a series of article submisions that led to publications in journals devoted to fields that the hoaxers deemed as grievance studies.

The article reports Chinese government's act of pressurizing an academic publisher Springer Nature for blocking access to their articles in mainland China, scholars' act of criticizing the publisher than the government, and the publisher's role in blocking articles ordered by the government.

The article discusses a trend of increasing scrutiny of the methodology and accuracy of scientific studies published in peer-reviewed journals, noting the impact of a retraction of an article on how political canvassing affects opinions on same-sex marriage by the journal "Science." Topics addressed include the views of Ivan Oransky, editor of the Retraction Watch blog, and other scientists and physicians regarding a trend of increases in retractions, as well as concerns regarding the fabrication of data.

The article discusses concerns regarding academic researchers efforts to generate media attention for their research, noting that efforts to draw attention may skew research and broaden findings. Topics addressed include the impact of media attention of academic job candidates potential to be hired by top colleges and universities, the peer-review process for academic journals, and the retraction of an article from the journal "Science."

The article discusses academic conferences and journals based on open access publishing in which an author pays for his or her article to be published online, highlighting online journals' lack of standards for published articles. Topics addressed include research librarian Jeffrey Beall's attempts to create a blacklist of certain online journals, and the journals' invitations to academics through e-mail.

The article reports that Harvard University faculty will vote on February 12, 2008 on a proposal that would allow the school to distribute the academic writing of the faculty of the Department of Arts and Sciences for free online, rather than signing agreements with scholarly periodicals with small circulations. A vote in favor of the proposal would be a significant victory for the open access movement, which seeks to make scholarly research available to a wide audience at a low cost.

The author looks at how recent disclosures of fraudulent or flawed studies in medical and scientific journals have called into question as never before the merits of their peer-review system. According to the author, the system is based on journals inviting independent experts to critique submitted manuscripts. The author discusses how nearly every major scientific and medical journal has been humbled by publishing findings that are later discredited. INSET: Journal Troubles.

The article focuses on the results of a research published in the journal "Nature" which reveals that men publish more scientific research than their female colleagues.

Reports on the ease of a ban on editing manuscripts from nations under U.S. trade embargoes by the federal government. Implications of the move for publishers; Production of 30 percent of the world's literature in electrical and electronics engineering and computer science by members of an international group; Impact of the ruling for people in the scholarly publishing community.

Discusses the declining interest in scholarly journals devoted to arts and humanities. Trivialization of publications; Views of John Kenneth Galbraith, Harvard economist, on journals; Details of journal published in the United States and world wide; Views of Bill Katz of the State University of New York in Albany, on pressure on professors; Comments of an analyst at the Institute for Scientific Information on the emphasis on numbers.