In April, developmental neuropsychologist Dorothy Bishop noticed strange phrases in a 2021 study of autistic children who interacted with...

At least 800 research studies published in crystallography and exotic-chemistry journals originate from a paper mill, a new study...

Since 2019, Anna Abalkina has been monitoring a website that offers an illicit way for scientists to burnish their CVs. The site,...

Want a higher h-index? Here’s a way — but be warned, it’s a method that will raise some eyebrows. Take the example of this computer...

Physics research papers authored by women receive fewer citations than expected given the number of women who work in the field and the...

Some universities in the United States and United Kingdom are eyeing a scheme, due to be rolled out in 2022, that could see them pay...

The popular academic social networking site ResearchGate is appealing a 31 January ruling by a district court in Munich, Germany, which...

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

A group of international respiratory societies has banned researchers associated with tobacco companies from publishing papers in their...

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

There’s no quick and easy way to fix the problem of ’scientific misinformation’, argues a new report released by the Royal Society. As...

China’s ministry of science and technology (MOST) has sanctioned hundreds of researchers after an investigation concluded that they had...

In 2020, researchers globally spent an estimated 130 million hours – equivalent to 15,000 years – peer-reviewing manuscripts for...

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...

As libraries and research offices evolve with the complex and competitive demands of the research enterprise, tensions over their...

The illegal inclusion of false investigators on grant proposals and research papers should be classified as research misconduct,...

Australia lags behind comparable research-intensive countries in Europe in the development of open-access policies, according to a recent...

Only half of Australia’s 40 universities have a formal policy on open access (OA), and the policies are vague and ineffectual, according...

There’s ample evidence that retracted papers — 2,500 per year and growing — continue to attract citations that do not mention the fact...