ChatGPT and Corporations of Mega-journals Jeopardize the Norms That Underpin Academic Publishing.

Those who participate in and contribute to academic publishing are affected by its evolution. Funding bodies, academic institutions, researchers and peer-reviewers, junior scholars, freelance language editors, language-editing services, and journal editors are to enforce and uphold the ethical norms on which academic publishing is founded. Deviating from such norms will challenge and threaten the scholarly reputation, academic careers, and institutional standing; reduce the publishers' true impacts; squander public funding; and erode the public trust to the academic enterprise.

Inhibition of GCN2 Reveals Synergy with Cell-Cycle Regulation and Proteostasis.

The integrated stress response is a signaling network comprising four branches, each sensing different cellular stressors, converging on the phosphorylation of eIF2α to downregulate global translation and initiate recovery. One of these branches includes GCN2, which senses cellular amino acid insufficiency and participates in maintaining amino acid homeostasis. Previous studies have shown that GCN2 is a viable cancer target when amino acid stress is induced by inhibiting an additional target.

Passive Contribution of ChatGPT to Scientific Papers.

Arguably ChatGPT jeopardizes the integrity and validity of the academic publications instead of ethically facilitating them. ChatGPT can apparently fulfill a portion of one of the four authorship criteria set by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), i.e.

ChatGPT and Publication Ethics.

Academic publishing is crucial for scientific communication, is governed by accepted ethical norms, and underpins the collective literature on basic science, and technological and medical principles and advances. In November 2022, the public and professional global communities, including the scientific community, witnessed the release of ChatGPT by OpenAI in San Francisco, California, USA. Excluding its public appeal and entertaining aspects but considering its diverse potential applications, some ethical concerns must be considered before establishing guidelines on using and including ChatGPT or similar platforms in scientific publishing.

Identification of Streptococcus gallolyticus in tumor samples of Iranian patients diagnosed with colorectal cancer.

Objective: Clinical outcomes of infection by S. gallolyticus have not been investigated extensively. We aimed to determine the prevalence of S.

Learning from Retracted Papers Authored by the Highly Cited Iran-affiliated Researchers: Revisiting Research Policies and a Key Message to Clarivate Analytics.

Reasons underlying retractions of papers authored by the Iran-affiliated highly cited researchers (HCRs) have not been documented. Here, we report that 229 of the Iran-affiliated researchers were listed by the Clarivate Analytics as HCRs. We investigated the Retraction Watch Database and found that, in total, 51 papers authored by the Iran-affiliated HCRs were retracted from 2006 to 2019.

Is Omicron the last SARS-CoV-2 Variant of Concern?

Millions have died due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The irrepressible propensity of the pandemic, which was highlighted by the outbreak of the Delta variant, should not be underestimated. The Omicron SARS-CoV-2 variant is thought to have originated from Africa.