Editors spend a lot of time selecting papers to be highlighted in their pages and promoted by other means. But according to Manolis...

Physicists are cautiously optimistic about a new DARPA-like funding agency the UK is creating. Called the Advanced Research and Invention...

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...

Physics and Astronomy graduate schools are rapidly moving away from the GRE entrance exams amid concerns over their cost, accessibility...

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

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

On 30 May, many pay-to-read academic publishers breathed a sigh of relief. That day the funding agencies spearheading Plan S decided to...

Flight shooting, a form of archery, is an ancient sport with a simple objective: launching arrows as far as possible. The details are...

It happens continuously. Speedy protons from space slam into molecules in Earth’s atmosphere, sparking reactions that produce, among...

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

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

Physicists can get wordy when describing their own work, but apparently they get straight to the point when providing feedback to others....

The Physics Society of Iran (PSI) has voiced concern over a recent case of faked peer review by an Iranian researcher. The full article...

An unorthodox new astronomy journal is geared toward short, succinct updates of work in progress. Research Notes of the American...

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...

A black-box version of peer review in which the identities of both authors and reviewers of manuscripts are kept anonymous is receiving...

A newly proposed, citation-based metric assesses the veracity of scientific claims by evaluating the outcomes of subsequent replication...