Manuscripts authored by women and men are treated similarly during peer review, finds a new study of more than 760,000 reviews of nearly 350,000 papers from ...

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...

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...

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...

Researchers are getting better at communicating science in a rigorous and reproducible way, according to a text-mining analysis of around 1.6 million papers....

Papers published in ‘predatory’ journals attract little attention from scientists, and get cited much less than those in reputable publications, an analysis ...

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

An analysis of submissions of manuscripts and peer review reports at two journals suggests that a significant number of researchers around the world continue...

The number of research papers with more than 1,000 authors has more than doubled in the past 5 years, a study of millions of articles indexed by the Web of S...

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

In 2008, psychologists proposed that when humans are shown an unfamiliar face, they judge it on two main dimensions: trustworthiness and physical strength. T...

You may not believe what you believed before. It might feel as if you’ve squandered your grant money on research that you no longer stand by, but that’s okay...

Researchers spend around ten days every year reviewing other academics’ funding proposals, according to the largest ever survey of grant peer review. While n...

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...

The language found in research papers isn’t more carefully crafted language after peer review but it does include more on the potential limitations of the wo...

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...

The use of scientific methodology to study science itself is called metascience. The discipline, which has become mainstream in recent years, got a new boost...

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...