HHMI meeting examines ways to improve manuscript vetting: little consensus on whether reviewers should have to publicly sign their critiques, which traditionally are accessible only to editors and authors.

Cosmic convergence confirmed astrophysical models, revealed origins of heavy elements -- and, yes, created gravitational waves.

According to its developers, Statcheck gets it right in more than 95% of cases. Some outsiders still aren’t convinced.

Congress has given government scientists working at U.S. defense laboratories an opportunity for a much bigger payoff—up to $500,000 per year—if their research is a commercial success.

The active participation of the people is one of the central components of a functioning democracy. Research performed a real-world randomized experiment in the United States to understand the causal effect of news stories on increasing public discussion of a specific topic.

Over the last 2 years more than 150 German libraries, universities, and research institutes have formed a united front trying to force academic publishers into a new way of doing business.

China's rewards are richest, but many nations now offer incentives for publishing in top journals.

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

New procedures give president final say in academy's elections.

Long-time physician-scientist retains job he has held since 2009.

President Donald Trump's administration has brought a long-simmering debate over how the U.S. government supports university research back to a boil.

Globe-trotting scientists are surprisingly hard to track, but data from ORCID provide a window into their movements.

ORCID wasn't intended as a massive longitudinal survey of human migration, but with 3 million profiles and growing, it is becoming just that.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced plans last week to impose a new grant scoring system that would cap how much support an investigator can receive from the agency.

The European Commission, which spends more than €10 billion annually on research, may set up a “publishing platform” for the scientists it funds, in an attempt to accelerate the transition to open-access publishing in Europe.