Since 2019, Anna Abalkina has been monitoring a website that offers an illicit way for scientists to burnish their CVs. The site,...

Some universities in the United States and United Kingdom are eyeing a scheme, due to be rolled out in 2022, that could see them pay...

Clarivate Analytics, the UK-based firm that owns the scholarly database Web of Science (WoS), has begun automatically generating author...

In 2020, researchers globally spent an estimated 130 million hours – equivalent to 15,000 years – peer-reviewing manuscripts for...

An unprecedented number of first-time investigators have secured viewing time on NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope in the years since the...

Most editors-in-chiefs of scholarly journals have no objection to patients being included as co-authors of research papers when they...

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

The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) , Switzerland’s largest government research-funding agency, has started using a...

Several researchers have been sanctioned following an investigation into alleged peer-review manipulation among attendees at a prominent...

A new database containing information about nearly half a million journal editors' names, affiliations and editorial roles launched in a...

A recent hack of systems of the umbrella grant funding agency UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has rattled researchers but details of...

Grant reviewers for the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) report shorter attention spans and lower engagement during video...

Six AI tools programmed to automatically measure the rigour and reproducibility of COVID-19 preprints are reporting major gaps when it...

What should science do about conflicts of interest? When they are identified, they become an obstacle to objectivity — a key tenet and a...

The UK’s Institute of Physics is making double-blind peer review the default process by the end of 2021 for authors publishing in Reports...

The close-knit computer engineering community has been rocked to its foundations by a scandal that has so far sparked three...

The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has released its “framework for action” to improve the diversity of its editors, peer-reviewers, and...

'Distributed peer review' helps take the burden off peer reviewers reviewing applications for allocating telescope time slots by putting...

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

The International Society of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (ISAC) has distanced itself from a recent study published by its own journal,...