Wiley’s ‘fake science’ scandal is just the latest chapter in a broader crisis of trust universities must address

News Snapshot:

Like listening to stories? Take our survey to help us improve this new feature. John Wiley & Sons Inc is a publisher of academic journals. The company, better known as Wiley, is listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and each year churns out more than 1,400 scientific and other publications across the world. Last year, it turned over more than $US2 billion ($3 billion). Wiley is a silverback in the strange, circular marketplace of scientific publishing. The researchers who write for these journals, and the academics who edit them, do this work largely unpaid. They are subsidised by...