More than 400 authors on some 100 papers from a single journal face punishments

The Chinese government finds almost 500 researchers guilty of misconduct in relation to a recent spate of retractions from a cancer journal.

Günther Oettinger says research should be the only programme spared spending cuts as the EU weighs how to make up for losing the UK’s €11B per annum contribution.

The number of grant applications is going up in almost every country and field, whereas budgets are mostly flat or shrinking.

The European Commission should give Framework 9 applicants access to the full evaluation reports for their proposals, a Swiss position paper on the programme has said.

As an alternative to the Journal Impact Factor, editors propose an index that measures highly cited papers.

The country wants to use a focus on research to solve its problems and build diplomatic ties in the Middle East.

When the results of clinical trials aren’t made public, the consequences can be dangerous — and potentially deadly.

The country desperately needs more egghead lawmakers. Right now, Capitol Hill has almost none.

In the past few months, three high-profile science conferences have ignited internet ire for their lack of representation of women.

The National Academies has launched a new study on how to move toward an open science enterprise.

One of scientists’ favourite statistics — the P value — should face tougher standards, say leading researchers.

The European Commission plans to launch its open science cloud by 2020, but calls on universities to train more data scientists

Proposal to change widely accepted p-value threshold stirs reproducibility debate.

A new paper argues that journal publishers should become much more transparent about their peer review practices.

Microsoft, Google and Baidu are joining forces in Open Academic Search, an initiative led by Seattle’s Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence.

What it means for researchers.

The 2014 REF results show only a very weak relationship between excellence in research and achieving societal impact.

A number of so-called scientific journals have accepted a Star Wars-themed spoof paper.

Top 10% of grantees get 37% of the money.

Researchers had complained about proposal review process, success rates.

Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha and Professor Marc Edwards showed science and scholarship are powerful tools for social change.

The European Research Council is planning to reduce the budgets for its single-investigator grants in 2018, to fund the return of the multi-investigator Synergy Grants.

Spanish researchers are still waiting for the full implementation of a law which was approved six years ago.

Macron's promise to ring fence university funding did not last two months, says the National Union of Higher Education.

Authors will have the opportunity to submit their manuscripts directly for consideration to Science.

ORCID have recognised ScienceOpen for leadership in integrating their services as part of their Collect and Connect program.

A small change would open up a whole new class of works for which publishers could demand payment for the use of small snippets, apparently including works that the author had released under an open access license.

F1000 is reducing the open access publishing charges for all articles containing an interactive Plotly figure by 50%.

Recent announcements from the creator of Sci-Hub raise the distinct possibility that Scholarly Publishers have been systematically compromised.