Researchers who agree to manipulate citations are more likely to get their papers published
‘Spell-checker for statistics’ reduces errors in the psychology literature
‘Golden tickets’ on the cards for NSF grant reviewers
Elsevier journal under fire for rejecting paper that didn’t cite enough of its old papers
AI system not yet ready to help peer reviewers assess research quality
Journals to trial tool that automatically flags reproducibility and transparency issues in papers
Should AI have a role in assessing research quality?
The case for lotteries as a tiebreaker of quality in research funding
New tool measures thoroughness of peer review reports
Swiss funder unveils new CV format to make grant evaluation fairer
Japan launches preprint server — but will scientists use it?
Russian website peddles authorships linked to reputable journals
Plan P: Can institutions facilitate open access?
Clarivate Analytics’s new author profiles tool to include peer review activity
Researchers spent an estimated 130 million hours peer-reviewing papers in 2020
Record number of first-time observers get Hubble telescope time
Editors give green light to patients co-authoring manuscripts
Peer-reviewers twice as likely to accept research conducted on men than the same research on women
Swiss funder draws lots to make grant decisions
Research misconduct findings, 15-year publishing ban in graduate student suicide case