A pilot study at universities and private and public funding agencies in Europe testing a new toolbox of topics aimed at helping...

British umbrella funding agency UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) announced its long-awaited open access policy at a virtual roundtable...

Academia in the Netherlands has erupted in disagreement over the move by a Dutch university to stop considering journal impact factors...

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

In 2014, the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute launched the Center for Journalology with some internal funding, aiming to shed light on...

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

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

Experts in science and research funding have given a tepid welcome to the budget announced by Rishi Sunak, the UK’s chancellor of the...

The UK government will launch a new grant funding agency in 2022 aimed specifically at funding high-risk science and breakthroughs. The...

The widely used academic database Scopus hosts papers from more than 300 potentially ‘predatory’ journals that have questionable...

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

Last month publishing giant Springer Nature announced that in January 2021 many of its Nature-branded journals will start offering...

The manipulation of statistics to make results more visible—known as p-hacking—should be classed as a violation of scientific integrity,...

Science is becoming more difficult to understand due to the sheer number of acronyms, finds a new study that analysed the use of acronyms...

I wrote an opinion article for Undark Magazine arguing that different countries need to get more serious about dealing with research...

In April, when the State University of New York (SUNY) system canceled a big subscription deal with Dutch publishing giant Elsevier in...

“Totally unreliable.” “A buggy mess.” Over the past month, software engineers have sharply criticized the code underpinning...

The UK is aiming to drastically scale up Covid-19 testing of its population, with health secretary Matt Hancock saying the country plans...

More than 3,700 researchers based at Australian institutions — roughly 7% of the country’s academic community — as of mid-2019 appeared...

A new database aiming to clarify how peer review is conducted at different scholarly journals launched in March. The full article was...