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

Katalin Karikó’s work on messenger RNA helped enable the development of the Pfizer–BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines. But early in...

Gender disparities in science have attracted a lot of attention in the last decade or so, but the biases against women in media coverage...

Research with male experimental participants is almost twice as likely to be accepted during peer review as the same research conducted...

The percentages of female first and corresponding authors of papers in chemistry journals haven’t increased in the last decade and a...

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

In a move likely to attract criticism, a peer-reviewed journal has agreed to publish an Italian physicist’s highly contested analysis of...

Women are listed as authors of just 30% of academic research from British universities, according to a major new ranking of higher...

Women are inadequately represented as peer reviewers, journal editors and last authors of studies, according to an analysis of manuscript...

One in three scholars across a wide range of natural and social science fields admit to including unjustifiable co-authors to their...

A project that aims to increase visibility of scientists from under-represented groups is gaining support online. Its goals include...

Men cite their own papers 56% more than women on average, according to an analysis of 1.5 million studies published between 1779 and...