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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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