An estimated 8% of scientists who participated in an anonymous survey of research practices at Dutch universities confessed to falsifying...

An expanding kit of digital tools and apps helps researchers automate certain processes and make others less burdensome. Nature Index has...

Bibliometricians and information scientists who study the scholarly literature as a whole have responded with dismay to Microsoft’s...

Editors spend a lot of time selecting papers to be highlighted in their pages and promoted by other means. But according to Manolis...

On average, senior academics publish papers at around the same rate as their junior colleagues, and produce significantly more books and...

For years, researchers have been trying to find formulae that can accurately predict the future impact of scholarly papers. The latest...

A high-profile chemical engineer and nanomedicine professor at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, has left his position...

Research with male experimental participants is almost twice as likely to be accepted during peer review as the same research conducted...

In 2014, the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute launched the Center for Journalology with some internal funding, aiming to shed light on...

The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) , Switzerland’s largest government research-funding agency, has started using a...

Physicists are cautiously optimistic about a new DARPA-like funding agency the UK is creating. Called the Advanced Research and Invention...

Several researchers have been sanctioned following an investigation into alleged peer-review manipulation among attendees at a prominent...

A new database containing information about nearly half a million journal editors' names, affiliations and editorial roles launched in a...

Higher educational institutions across the UK and Europe have been the target of an increasing number of cyber attacks in recent months....

American fisheries are getting better at only catching the fish they actually intend to catch, rather than pulling in a menagerie of...

A former chemistry student has been sentenced to at least seven years in jail after admitting to poisoning his roommate with the highly...

Experts in science and research funding have given a tepid welcome to the budget announced by Rishi Sunak, the UK’s chancellor of the...

The UK government will launch a new grant funding agency in 2022 aimed specifically at funding high-risk science and breakthroughs. The...

A recent hack of systems of the umbrella grant funding agency UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has rattled researchers but details of...

The widely used academic database Scopus hosts papers from more than 300 potentially ‘predatory’ journals that have questionable...