Nature News · Feb 10, 2026 · Collected from RSS
CORRESPONDENCE 10 February 2026 By Malgorzata Lagisz0 Malgorzata Lagisz University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. In a recent Career Column, statistician Adrian Barnett warns that the publishing system is heading for collapse and explains his decision to publish fewer papers (Nature https://doi.org/qpx2; 2026). (For transparency, I have published with Barnett and hope to do so again.) Access options Access Nature and 54 other Nature Portfolio journals Get Nature+, our best-value online-access subscription 27,99 € / 30 days cancel any time Subscribe to this journal Receive 51 print issues and online access 185,98 € per year only 3,65 € per issue Rent or buy this article Prices vary by article type from$1.95 to$39.95 Prices may be subject to local taxes which are calculated during checkout Additional access options: Log in Learn about institutional subscriptions Read our FAQs Contact customer support Nature 650, 516 (2026) doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-026-00419-w Competing Interests The author declares no competing interests. Related Articles Will AI speed up literature reviews or derail them entirely? Chain retraction: how to stop bad science propagating through the literature Give researchers a lifetime word limit Subjects Latest on: Careers Lab life Publishing ‘I was nearly arrested’: escaping Myanmar’s military leadership for a PhD abroad Career Q&A 13 FEB 26 My ‘detective’ job as a competitive-intelligence consultant for pharma Career Q&A 11 FEB 26 My professor said ‘Black people are not interested in the environment’. I set out to prove him wrong Career Q&A 11 FEB 26 What can I do if my idea has been plagiarized? Career Feature 10 FEB 26 Lab morale got you down? Try a handbook Technology Feature 10 FEB 26 Universities in exile: displaced scholars count the costs of starting afresh Career Feature 06 FEB 26 How AI slop is causing a crisis in computer science News 13 FEB 26 Four ways I ensured my research brought about real-world change Career Column 11 FEB 26 Public-speaking tips from the experts: what scientists can learn from comics, musicians and actors Career Column 10 FEB 26