Since 2019, Anna Abalkina has been monitoring a website that offers an illicit way for scientists to burnish their CVs. The site,...

Want a higher h-index? Here’s a way — but be warned, it’s a method that will raise some eyebrows. Take the example of this computer...

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

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

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

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

The percentages of female first and corresponding authors of papers in chemistry journals haven’t increased in the last decade and a...

A new study found that gift authorship is the most common type of research fraud in the United States. Yet it remains a common practice...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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