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...

Early-career researchers are less likely to report research misconduct when they come across such activity than senior faculty, a survey of more than 1100 re...

Online sleuths have discovered what they suspect is a paper mill that has produced more than 400 scientific papers with potentially fabricated images. Some j...

A third of early-career researchers have had their work harmed by the questionable research practices of colleagues based at their institution, an online sur...

Academic journals in Russia are retracting more than 800 papers following a probe into unethical publication practices by a commission appointed by the Russi...

Criminology researchers are retracting five studies that have sparked a bitter battle over potential scientific misconduct and issues of race. The episode ha...

The Chinese Academy of Engineering has launched an investigation into prominent Chinese immunologist Xuetao Cao, the president of Nankai University in Tianji...

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

An online poll answered by more than 4,300 Nature readers suggests that most researchers have felt pressured by peer reviewers to cite studies in their paper...

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

The Dutch publisher Elsevier is investigating hundreds of researchers whom it suspects of deliberately manipulating the peer-review process to boost their ow...

The world’s most-cited researchers, according to newly released data, are a curiously eclectic bunch. Nobel laureates and eminent polymaths rub shoulders wit...

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

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

More than 40% of chemistry papers retracted in the last two years were pulled because of plagiarism, according to a new study. The next most common reason fo...

A project aiming to reproduce dozens of biochemistry experiments originally conducted in Brazil is set to commence this month. The full article was published...

The United Kingdom should establish a committee to monitor efforts by the nation’s universities to properly conduct misconduct investigations, a government i...