Clarivate Analytics, the UK-based firm that owns the scholarly database Web of Science (WoS), has begun automatically generating author...

An ambitious free index of more than 200 million scientific documents that catalogues publication sources, author information and...

Libraries need to become more user-friendly and to meet the demand of their patrons for digital services, according to a new survey...

A new online tool, Cassyni, aims to help academics run and keep track of research seminars worldwide. Its creators say that it will also...

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...