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...

‘A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new...

The world’s most-cited researchers, according to newly released data, are a curiously eclectic bunch. Nobel laureates and eminent polymaths rub shoulders wit...

Women are listed as authors of just 30% of academic research from British universities, according to a major new ranking of higher education institutions. Th...

Around half of the researchers participating in a new survey have admitted ghostwriting referee reports on behalf of senior faculty. The high proportion of p...

Springer Nature, the world’s second biggest academic publisher, has published the first scholarly book authored entirely by machines. The book, which is free...

Maybe you’ve heard about the cat who co-authored a scientific paper—but what about the dog? That would be Grandmother Liboiron, owned by Max Liboiron, an env...

Women are inadequately represented as peer reviewers, journal editors and last authors of studies, according to an analysis of manuscript submissions to an i...

Scientists from the United States have the highest propensity to publish novel biomedical literature, finds an analysis of more than 20 million papers. The f...

Switzerland appears to have three key factors for success in getting a surprisingly high proportion of its researchers’ articles cited in the scientific lite...

The number of international collaborations has tripled in the past fifteen years, reveals an analysis of more than 10 million papers tracked by the Web of Sc...

One in three scholars across a wide range of natural and social science fields admit to including unjustifiable co-authors to their publications. The survey,...

Scientists who collaborate locally publish more papers and are more highly cited than those who engage in long-distance relationships, finds a recent study o...

Men cite their own papers 56% more than women on average, according to an analysis of 1.5 million studies published between 1779 and 2011. And the trend has ...

Are individual scientists now more productive early in their careers than 100 years ago? No, according to a large analysis of publication records released to...

When it comes to authorship of scientific papers, questions over who should be the first author, who deserves the most credit and whether some participants d...

Publishers BioMed Central and Ubiquity Press have started using digital badges to clarify who did what to a scientific paper in a standardised, colourful for...

Neurobiologist Björn Brembs published his paper about how fruit flies walk in July last year. Figure 4 on his paper, however, has now been updated with data ...

The role of co-authors on scientific papers is often not clear and thus the work of junior scientists is often undermined. Digital badges, however, could be ...