The illegal inclusion of false investigators on grant proposals and research papers should be classified as research misconduct,...

Australia lags behind comparable research-intensive countries in Europe in the development of open-access policies, according to a recent...

Only half of Australia’s 40 universities have a formal policy on open access (OA), and the policies are vague and ineffectual, according...

There’s ample evidence that retracted papers — 2,500 per year and growing — continue to attract citations that do not mention the fact...

A pilot study at universities and private and public funding agencies in Europe testing a new toolbox of topics aimed at helping...

Katalin Karikó’s work on messenger RNA helped enable the development of the Pfizer–BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines. But early in...

British umbrella funding agency UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) announced its long-awaited open access policy at a virtual roundtable...

I wrote about what we know so far about Covaxin — the COVID-19 vaccine manufactured by Bharat Biotech in India. The full article, which...

Academia in the Netherlands has erupted in disagreement over the move by a Dutch university to stop considering journal impact factors...

Gender disparities in science have attracted a lot of attention in the last decade or so, but the biases against women in media coverage...

Should a journal retract a paper when they learn that one of its authors has earned a year-long prison sentence for a reason completely...

Most editors-in-chiefs of scholarly journals have no objection to patients being included as co-authors of research papers when they...

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...