Manuscripts authored by women and men are treated similarly during peer review, finds a new study of more than 760,000 reviews of nearly 350,000 papers from ...

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 ...

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...

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,...

Eric Lander, president and founding director of the Broad Institute and a biologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is the most influential bi...

A project that aims to increase visibility of scientists from under-represented groups is gaining support online. Its goals include adding photos of under-re...

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 ...

Women coders are more competent than men as long as their gender is not disclosed, according to a new study. When their gender is made available, the accepta...