Scientists Urge Open Sharing of Coronavirus Genome Data
Other researchers say that restrictions at the largest SARS-CoV-2 genome platform encourage fast sharing while protecting data providers' rights.
The Leiden Ranking Goes Beyond Ranking
Building Bridges Between Knowledge Production and Policy Decision-making
Building Bridges Between Knowledge Production and Policy Decision-making
Scientists Say It's Time To End 'Parachute Research'
Researchers drop in. They take specimens. And they head home and don't share. That's no way to fight an epidemic. Can they do things differently when it comes to Zika?
CRISPR Inventor Feng Zhang Calls for Moratorium on Gene-edited Babies
A leading scientist wants Chinese researchers to halt a project to create genetically modified children.
Naomi Oreskes: 'Discrediting Science is a Political Strategy'
The Harvard professor on science and scepticism - and why climate deniers have run out of excuses.
Discrimination Still Plagues Science
Employers need to do more to improve workplace diversity, equity and inclusion, a Nature survey finds.
The Ecosystem: The Race is on to Choose Europe's Regional Innovation Valleys
The European Commission plans to designate 100 locations across Europe as Regional Innovation Valleys, in a bid to strengthen innovation in EU priority areas and encourage collaboration between more and less advanced regions.
Our Research Shows How AI is Getting Better at Exams. Here's How Unis Can Respond
Our Research Shows How AI is Getting Better at Exams. Here's How Unis Can Respond
Let's just try that again
Reproducibility should be at science’s heart. It isn’t. But that may soon change.
The Allure of the Journal Impact Factor Holds Firm, Despite Its Flaws
The Allure of the Journal Impact Factor Holds Firm, Despite Its Flaws
Many researchers still see the journal impact factor (JIF) as a key metric for promotions and tenure, despite concerns that it’s a flawed measure of a researcher’s value.
Beamtimes and Knowledge Production Times: How Big-Science Research Infrastructures Shape Nations' Domestic and International Science Production
Beamtimes and Knowledge Production Times: How Big-Science Research Infrastructures Shape Nations' Domestic and International Science Production
Frontier scientific discoveries increasingly rely on big-science research infrastructures. This study investigates the effects of one of China’s prominent big-science infrastructures on the country’s production of science.
Psychology Is Not in Crisis
Failure to replicate is not a bug; it is a feature. It is what leads us along the path of scientific discovery.
Physiognomy’s New Clothes
Rapid developments in artificial intelligence and machine learning have enabled scientific racism to enter a new era, in which machine-learned models embed biases present in the human behavior used for model development.
The Tricks Propagandists Use to Beat Science
A model of the way opinions spread reveals how propagandists use the scientific process against itself to secretly influence policy makers.
A Framework for Sex, Gender, and Diversity Analysis in Research
The transformative nature of transparency in research funding
A survey of policies at major research funders found that there is room for more transparency in the process of grant review, which would strengthen the case for the efficiency of public spending on research.
Nature Index Institution outputs
The Nature Index tracks the affiliations of high-quality scientific articles. Updated monthly, the Nature Index presents research outputs by institution and country. Use the Nature Index to interrogate publication patterns and to benchmark research performance.
World Impact Rankings
The Times Higher Education University Impact Rankings assess universities against the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals. Calibrated indicators are used to provide comprehensive and balanced comparisons across three broad areas: research, outreach, and stewardship. This first edition includes more than 450 universities from 76 countries.
Publishers Make Coronavirus Content Freely Available and Reusable
More than 25 leading publishers have committed to making all of their COVID-19 and coronavirus-related publications, and the available data supporting them, immediately accessible in PubMed Central and other public repositories.
'Ignored and Not Appreciated': Women's Research Contributions Often Go Unrecognized
'Ignored and Not Appreciated': Women's Research Contributions Often Go Unrecognized
Data reveal that to earn credit on scientific articles, women need to work harder than men.
Are Scientists Using Social Media Effectively?
Social media platforms such as Twitter can be effectively used for connecting with scientific communities across the globe, facilitating knowledge exchange.
Editors of Major Political Science Journals Demonstrate No Systematic Bias Against Female Authors
Editors of Major Political Science Journals Demonstrate No Systematic Bias Against Female Authors
Study says editors of major political science journals demonstrate no systematic bias against female authors. Yet women authors remain underrepresented in the field. Why?