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...

Getting the measure of researchers and their work has long been a contentious subject, but the issue is receiving more attention in light...

Tweeting about your research increases the number of citations it goes on to attract, according to a new analysis. But outside experts...

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

In a move likely to attract criticism, a peer-reviewed journal has agreed to publish an Italian physicist’s highly contested analysis of...

Russia is lagging behind the global norm of cross-border, far-reaching science. A new study has found that researchers based in Russia...

Following the rollout of a controversial policy that makes the promotion of academics contingent on bibliometric success, scholars in...

The Dutch publisher Elsevier is investigating hundreds of researchers whom it suspects of deliberately manipulating the peer-review...

In 1985, Oxford University diabetes researcher David Matthews published a study in the journal Diabetologia about a computerised...

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

Researchers worldwide are taking an average of 472 days less to post their studies in online repositories due to mandates from research...

Most UK-based scientists who penned the most highly research in the last decade are not funded by the country’s top health funders,...

The editorial board of an influential scientometrics journal — the Journal of Informetrics — has resigned in protest over the open-access...

Researchers in Indonesia are up in arms about a metric introduced in 2017 by the nation’s government to measure productivity and...

Terms like cosmologist, string theorist, or particle physicist rarely capture the true scope of a scientist’s work. A new website plans...

Two CERN theoretical physicists have taken a page out of Google’s playbook in an attempt to better measure the impact of scientists and...

Italian scientists have been citing themselves more often since a controversial law came into effect in 2010 demanding academics meet...

The studies chemistry researchers perceive to be the most important in their field are not always the ones that get cited the most,...