There have been many initiatives to combat the distorting effect of research assessment exercises. The latest looks like it might work.

The intention of the Writing Workshops is to cultivate professional networks and mentorship and provide access for early career researchers in developing countries to the academic requirements of journals, including international journals, and to equip them with the necessary knowledge and skills to publish in these journals.

'Data leakage' threatens the reliability of machine-learning use across disciplines, researchers warn.

Horizon Europe is a new type of beast. While building on previous EU research programmes, it is doubling down on making an impact on major societal and technological challenges facing the bloc. Research stakeholders fear this shift will take money away from laboratory bench research and are calling on the European Commission to ensure it is clear which parts of the Horizon Europe pot impact-driven funding is coming from.  

Clarivate Analytics announced changes to selection of journals getting an Impact Factor.

Uncertainty in British politics is a headache for UK researchers

US lawmakers have warned that fake research papers risk compromising trust in the entire scientific system, as Artificial Intelligence makes it ever easier for so-called paper mills to fool journals into accepting made up articles.

Natural History Museum scientists seek to unlock mysteries of deep sea but some fear activity will disturb diversity of the depths

Scientists can reclaim public standing with better communication.

BigScience is a global effort to build a more transparent, accountable AI, with less of the bias that infects so many Big Tech initiatives

Impacts on research are being felt more widely than just in Ukraine and Russia.

For sea life, the ocean is becoming an intolerable racket.

Universities are terminating workers on fixed-term contracts - but unions say the actions do not reflect the purpose of employment laws introduced 10 years ago.

Community engagement enabled Jessica Eise to boost the relevance of her research. Here are her six tips for how to do this.

A majority of the DNA that has been sequenced for research comes from donors of European ancestry. That causes a knowledge gap about the genome of people from the rest of the world.

A new in-depth analysis of all research projects funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under Horizon 2020, reveals 55% of all grants combined went to the UK, Germany, France and the Netherlands.

The friar's experiments laid the groundwork for genetics - and his understated approach to his work is inspirational.