The country also leads in patent filings and the number of AI researchers.

Two countries vie to invest more of their economy into research than anyone else.

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Politics has thoroughly contaminated the scientific process in 2020. The result has been an epidemic of distrust, which further undermines the nation’s already chaotic and ineffective response to the coronavirus.

Researchers are racing to determine whether a fast-spreading variant in South Africa poses a threat to COVID vaccines' effectiveness.

Researchers will now be required to make papers free to read within one year of publication.

Three of Meral Camcı’s fellow academics are imprisoned for criticizing the government; more arrests may follow.

The Parliament voted in favor of almost all provisions that extend more rights to the establishment copyright industries while failing to protect users and new creators online.

The European People's Party (EPP) is calling on the Commission and member states to fund emergency placements for Afghan researchers and academics at European higher education and research institutions. One of the EPP's lead MEPs, Christian Ehler, said scientists in Afghanistan risk being persecuted by the Taliban, after the islamist group took over the country when the US military and its allies pulled out.

Novel public/private partnership connects researchers to verified versions of an estimated 18 million new open access articles from Web of Science.

Automating the training of machine-learning systems could make AI much more accessible.

A group of European funders, including the European Commission, will soon require researchers to publish only in open-access outlets that the funders consider high quality, the Commission’s open-access envoy has said.

Researchers can see at a glance the rules they’ll need to follow if they submit to a particular journal.

An external analysis of 15 years of stories finds men quoted more than twice as often as women.

All research findings at the Montreal Neurological Institute are being shared publicly to accelerate scientific discovery.

EU efforts to reduce the east-west gap in research and innovation should be backed by investment and reforms in member states, the EU auditor says in a report reviewing funding schemes set up by the European Commission to help bridge the divide.