Research with male experimental participants is almost twice as likely to be accepted during peer review as the same research conducted...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...