Romance often sparks between colleagues, and scientists are no different. Nature profiles four super-couples who have combined love and the lab.

First-author publications count far more than middle-author publications.

The Research Council of Norway has launched a new databank: an open, interactive tool enabling anyone to instantly customise statistical overviews of Research Council grants dating back to 1997. Soon in English.

Open access to publications and data in Horizon 2020: Frequently Asked Questions.

Why has academic knowledge become more expensive for consumers while music has become less expensive, and what can we do about it? Doing nothing to prevent the trading of electronic copies of our academic work could act to circumvent the perils of engagement with the academic publishing industry.

The expanding economies of South America have led to a significant rise in scientific output over the past two decades, and research spending has increased in most countries. But given the region's share of the world's population and GDP, publication rates still fall short of what would be expected.

Report based on a U.S. survey conducted by Pew Research Center with Smithsonian magazine and featured in a special issue of the magazine on science and science fiction.

Studie der Sozialforschungsstelle der Universtität Zürich.

The lower bound number of scholarly documents, published in English, available on the web is roughly 114 million.

Studie zur Mobilität der Wissenschafter.

Algorithm based on publications finds that first-author articles in leading journals matter most.

Report based on four workshops organized by the initiators of Science in Transition in the spring of 2013.

Collection of articles dedicated to altmetrics.

Completing a Marie Curie Fellowship does have beneficial impacts on a researcher’s career prospects. These positive effects are more marked for academic researchers, while there is room for improving collaboration and mutual benefits with the private sector.

The role of competitive funds as a source of funding for academic research has increased in many countries. For the individual researcher, the receipt of a grant can influence both scientific production and career paths.

The impact factor (IF) of scientific journals has acquired a major role in the evaluations of the output of scholars. However, at the end of the day one is interested in assessing the impact of individuals. Here we introduce Author Impact Factor (AIF).

It's a common complaint among academics: today's researchers are publishing too much, too fast. But just how fast is the mass of scientific output actually growing?

Study showing that the fate of a career strongly depends from the first two affiliations.

Paper challenging the perception of citations as an objective, socially unbiased measure of scientific success.

By Goodman A, Pepe A, Blocker AW, Borgman CL, Cranmer K, et al. (2014).

Instructors at 259 US institutions were, on average, more likely to respond to fake email requests for mentoring if the senders' names sounded white and male.

Triennial review examining the form, function and governance of the UK’s seven Research Councils.

Four prominent academics call for an overhaul of the US biomedical research workforce.

Good habits of reproducibility may actually turn out to be a time-saver in the longer run.

A lack of diversity in terms of gender, disability, ethnicity, socio-economic status and background across the scientific community represents a large loss of talent to the UK.

Ein Studie zeigt, dass immer mehr Stiftungen in der Schweiz die Wissenschaft fördern.

Liz Allen, Amy Brand, Jo Scott, Micah Altman and Marjorie Hlava are trialling digital taxonomies to help researchers to identify their contributions to collaborative projects. Research today is rarely a one-person job.

EU report urging a copyright law reform to help researchers text-mine research papers.

The report highlights universities' increasingly significant impact on the economy in terms of output, contribution to GDP, job creation, and overseas investment.

The proportion of non-tenure-track and non-tenured faculty posts continues to rise across all US institutions. Overall proportion of assistant professors in non-tenure-track posts was 23.4% for 2013–14, compared with 20.8% in 2010–11.