An expanding kit of digital tools and apps helps researchers automate certain processes and make others less burdensome. Nature Index has...

Bibliometricians and information scientists who study the scholarly literature as a whole have responded with dismay to Microsoft’s...

For years, researchers have been trying to find formulae that can accurately predict the future impact of scholarly papers. The latest...

A new database containing information about nearly half a million journal editors' names, affiliations and editorial roles launched in a...

An automated tool is targeting an issue that has plagued science for decades: retracted studies cited in newly published papers without...

Six AI tools programmed to automatically measure the rigour and reproducibility of COVID-19 preprints are reporting major gaps when it...

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

Researchers are getting better at communicating science in a rigorous and reproducible way, according to a text-mining analysis of around...

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

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

Recently the United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) solicited research proposals on developing automated tools...

Researchers are voicing concerns over a move that may affect many 3D visualisation programs that are commonly used in computational...

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

A new publishing system that uses the underlying technology behind the popular cryptocurrency bitcoin promises to solve some of...

A new online tool unveiled 19 January measures the reproducibility of published scientific papers by analyzing data about articles that...

This year has been an interesting one in the world of scholarly publishing. It has seen lawsuits against websites illegally or illicitly...

Blockchain, the technology behind the popular digital currency bitcoin, has the potential to transform research and the science...

A collection of web-browser plug-ins that trawl the web to find scholarly papers is making the scholarly literature more discoverable....

Eric Lander, president and founding director of the Broad Institute and a biologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is the...

A major scientific publishing group is taking aim at a social networking site for allowing researchers to illegally post copies of their...