Algorithm ranks peer reviewers by reputation — but critics warn of bias
Researchers want a ‘nutrition label’ for academic-paper facts
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A key chemistry journal disappeared from the web. Others are at risk
Gates Foundation mandates preprints
Larger or longer grants unlikely to push senior scientists towards high-risk, high-reward work
Why is plagiarism apparently more common in research funded by the NSF than the NIH?
COVID’s preprint bump set to have lasting effect on research publishing
Fake research papers flagged by analysing authorship trends
Is the academic social networking site ResearchGate still relevant?
Self-citations in around a dozen countries are unusually high
US project seeks standard way to communicate research retractions
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US agency launches experiments to find innovative ways to fund research
UAE university breaks ties with beleaguered nanoscientist
Exposing a most unscrupulous journal
Malaysia won’t pay for researchers to publish in certain journals
Crystallography Databases Hunt for Fraudulent Structures
How thousands of invisible citations sneak into papers and make for fake metrics
Crossref acquires Retraction Watch Database
Science publishers settle lawsuits with ResearchGate
Former Cornell scientists made up data in 12 research studies
Chemist made-up data in 4 NIH grant applications
One academic paper’s journey through the mill
Women scientists are less likely than men to submit papers to high-impact journals
Flawed chemistry papers can take more than a year to be retracted
Small gap found in error reporting at JACS
Preprints become papers less often when the authors are from lower-income countries
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Nobel Prize winner Gregg Semenza retracts another study
The OPCW’s never-ending fight to eliminate chemical weapons
Survey Finds Cheating Is Common in Graduate School
Dedicated committee needed to tackle research reproducibility problems in the UK
Prominent nanoscientist retracts paper after PhD students flagged error
Researchers who agree to manipulate citations are more likely to get their papers published
Chemist in India loses seven papers, blames outsourcing of images
New tool detects papers originating from paper mills
Earthquake destroyed data, claims Japanese prof found to have faked results
Highly-cited chemist is suspended for claiming to be affiliated with Russian and Saudi universities
Five years after saying it won’t retract Macchiarini paper, journal does so
Exclusive: Australia space scientist made up data, probe finds
‘Spell-checker for statistics’ reduces errors in the psychology literature
‘Elite university’ strategies might boost profile and rankings — but at what cost?
French National Center for Scientific Research faulted over chemistry lab misconduct probe
A Conversation with Renee Wegrzyn, inaugural director of ARPA-H
Chemistry bots under threat from changes to Twitter’s API rules
US Office of Research Integrity received 269 allegations of research misconduct last fiscal year
‘Golden tickets’ on the cards for NSF grant reviewers