Indonesia researchers have inflated their Indonesia’s Science and Technology Index (SINTA) score by publishing large numbers of papers in low-quality journals, citing their own work excessively, or forming networks of scientists who cited each other.

#MeToo has not much altered the science professions, and it likely won't until the culture of science is dismantled and rebuilt from the ground up.

Robert-Jan Smits is pitching the Plan S vision to transform academic publishing to the world’s big science funding bodies.

  So, there I was, pipette in hand, doing actual labwork for the first time in a year. How had it come to this? When I started out, I was convinced I was not going to be one of those PIs who is never in the lab.

A survey of publishers with journals indexed in Directory of Open Access Journals has revealed surprising trends in the way that content is published.

The process of buying something and therefore recognizing it is comparatively simple, but how do you create a schema for recognizing a cold war, or a bear market? That’s what DARPA wants to look into.

We asked dozens of women about gender and power on campus. Here’s what they told us.

Young women and girls look to Hollywood for inspiration and guidance, but how can we be sure movies and TV are positively representing women in STEM?

The move from Academia to the 'real world' requires a few crucial mindset shifts. 

End of prestigious print publication after 103 years stirs debate over future of journal publishing in the digital age.

The most-searched keywords in the Scopus database and on Google, revealed.

Workshop concludes that early-career researchers can make important contributions to policy decisions and experimenting with various forms of communication (i.e. opinion pieces, youtube channels, and tweeting at MPs) had the potential to improve knowledge transfer.

The author argues that the two biggest forces driving change in the scholarly communication landscape are consolidation and regulation. By consolidation, he means that there’s a now constant cycle of mergers and acquisitions, reducing the number of independent players in the market. By regulation, we’re talking about the increasing number of rules and the compliance burden being put on researchers.

From a self-sampling scientist to the downfall of a leading stem cell scientist, here's our naughty list.

The funder-driven push for freely accessible scholarly literature has divided the scientific community.

Ten people who mattered in science in 2018. Picks include a rogue gene-editor, a wunderkind physicist and a DNA detective who helped catch a serial killer.

If you're looking to move labs, countries or sectors this year, or seeking general career inspiration, here's some advice from five researchers who featured in Nature Careers in 2018.

Three new members of the European Research Council (ERC)'s governing body, the Scientific Council, have been appointed by the European Commission. The Scientific Council annonced two new ERC Vice Presidents.

Mansplaining is the tip of the iceberg Many of the experiences of women in the workforce are so patterned and commonplace they have spawned an emerging vocabulary, which includes terms like mansplaining (explaining something in a condescending or patronising way, typically to a woman), bropropriation (when a man takes credit for a woman's idea), manel (a panel of speakers populated entirely by men), and himpathy (the "inappropriate and disproportionate sympathy powerful men often enjoy in cases of sexual assault, intimate partner violence, homicide, and other misogynistic behavior"). Here, we propose a number of additions to the vernacular, which are likely to remain relevant for the foreseeable future.

Australian cancer researcher Glenn Begley who raised attention to the fact that many published scientific findings cannot be reproduced ,says that he never described it as a replication crisis, beacuse if one takes the funding from the lazy scientists and give it to really good scientists, it is an innovation opportunity. 

If we believe data should be valued like other research outputs, we must take action to achieve this. Supporting the open data movement means providing proper support for data citations.

Philip Ball looks at whether prizes and awards help or hinder scientific progress.

Funders and publishers have a lot to gain from sharing and aligning peer reviews.

Contemporary science has been characterized by an exponential growth in publications and a rise of team science. At the same time, there has been an increase in the number of awarded PhD degrees, which has not been accompanied by a similar expansion in the number of academic positions.

What are the underlying mechanisms that cause disciplines to vary in their OA publishing practices.

Many undergraduates in the natural sciences will never take part in research, despite a willingness to learn. But their presence can teach others how to lead.

Gene targeted for its role in HIV is linked to increased severity of other infectious diseases - and could affect learning in mice.

Sea ice was thinner in late 2017 and much of 2018 than at any time in the last 30 years, while wild reindeer and caribou populations continue to decline.

What research caught the public imagination in 2018? Check out our annual list of papers with the most attention.

CRISPR is indeed an exciting and promising technology that's already affecting the lives of many people. That said, we should be cautious.