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

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

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

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

The Dutch publisher Elsevier is investigating hundreds of researchers whom it suspects of deliberately manipulating the peer-review process to boost their ow...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Since its launch around 40 years ago, the journal impact factor (JIF) has shaped academic behaviour. Originally presented by Eugene Garfield, founder of the ...

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...

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...

Tooting your horn can be good at times. For academics, it comes in the form of citing your own prior work in new studies. A new metric proposed by researcher...