The UK is aiming to drastically scale up Covid-19 testing of its population, with health secretary Matt Hancock saying the country plans to conduct 100,000 t...

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

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

Online badges don’t motivate researchers to share their data when submitting to a medical journal, the first ever randomised controlled trial on the practice...

The UK chancellor of the exchequer, Rishi Sunak, has announced a boost to public funding for research and development, leaving many researchers cautiously pl...

A few years ago, Anna Ponnampalam did something out-of-the-box. She entered a lottery. But she wasn’t buying scratch-off tickets promising cash for life. She...

Publons, a website that allows peer reviewers to claim credit for refereeing manuscripts, is expanding its remit to grant peer review. Last month, the London...

Why do some other funders and scholarly publishers still allow researchers to suggest reviewers to evaluate their work? Some funders and publishers call the ...

Russia is lagging behind the global norm of cross-border, far-reaching science. A new study has found that researchers based in Russia publish a higher perce...

Three in four researchers are satisfied with science’s quality control system, according to a new survey of more than 3,000 academics by the advocacy group S...

Following the rollout of a controversial policy that makes the promotion of academics contingent on bibliometric success, scholars in Italy increasingly cite...

Europe and US-based Chinese researchers have been flooding back to China in recent years — and having a significant impact in the literature after returning ...

‘A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new...

In July, the World Economic Forum unveiled its annual list of the world’s 21 brightest scientific minds aged under 40. That list includes Ruth Morgan, direct...

The UK is establishing a research integrity committee to better monitor how robustly the nation’s universities carry out research misconduct investigations. ...

Autistic people described as ‘high functioning’ because they do not have intellectual disability often still struggle with daily living skills, according to ...

Research integrity professionals in Singapore have responded to a high-profile case of research misconduct by launching a professional network to discuss res...

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...

Trawling through the websites of academic journals to decipher their publication policies can be a laborious task. A new database aims to simplify the proces...

Around half of the researchers participating in a new survey have admitted ghostwriting referee reports on behalf of senior faculty. The high proportion of p...