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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 proposed by researcher...

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

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