'Distributed peer review' helps take the burden off peer reviewers reviewing applications for allocating telescope time slots by putting the onus on applican...

Manuscripts authored by women and men are treated similarly during peer review, finds a new study of more than 760,000 reviews of nearly 350,000 papers from ...

The UK is aiming to drastically scale up Covid-19 testing of its population, with health secretary Matt Hancock saying the country plans to conduct 100,000 t...

More than 3,700 researchers based at Australian institutions — roughly 7% of the country’s academic community — as of mid-2019 appeared on the editorial boar...

The International Society of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (ISAC) has distanced itself from a recent study published by its own journal, which suggested that an...

A new database aiming to clarify how peer review is conducted at different scholarly journals launched in March. The full article was published at Nature Ind...

Online badges don’t motivate researchers to share their data when submitting to a medical journal, the first ever randomised controlled trial on the practice...

The UK chancellor of the exchequer, Rishi Sunak, has announced a boost to public funding for research and development, leaving many researchers cautiously pl...

Early-career researchers are less likely to report research misconduct when they come across such activity than senior faculty, a survey of more than 1100 re...

Online sleuths have discovered what they suspect is a paper mill that has produced more than 400 scientific papers with potentially fabricated images. Some j...

A third of early-career researchers have had their work harmed by the questionable research practices of colleagues based at their institution, an online sur...

A few years ago, Anna Ponnampalam did something out-of-the-box. She entered a lottery. But she wasn’t buying scratch-off tickets promising cash for life. She...

Publons, a website that allows peer reviewers to claim credit for refereeing manuscripts, is expanding its remit to grant peer review. Last month, the London...

Researchers are getting better at communicating science in a rigorous and reproducible way, according to a text-mining analysis of around 1.6 million papers....

Papers published in ‘predatory’ journals attract little attention from scientists, and get cited much less than those in reputable publications, an analysis ...

Academic journals in Russia are retracting more than 800 papers following a probe into unethical publication practices by a commission appointed by the Russi...

An analysis of submissions of manuscripts and peer review reports at two journals suggests that a significant number of researchers around the world continue...

The number of research papers with more than 1,000 authors has more than doubled in the past 5 years, a study of millions of articles indexed by the Web of S...

Blueberries are fascinating to scientists. In humans, the berries have been shown to lower blood pressure and help kids perform better on cognitive tests. In...

Criminology researchers are retracting five studies that have sparked a bitter battle over potential scientific misconduct and issues of race. The episode ha...