To distance its science education systems from centurieslong British colonialism, India is leaning into its history and traditions—but at what cost?

The Research Excellence Framework is primarily a mechanism for assessing the quality of research and allocating research funding. However, REF outputs and in particularly impact case studies hold value for many actors outside of higher education institutions.

A portrait from UNESCO shows where women are well represented among employed scientists, and where they are rare.

Embracing uncertainty could improve peer review processes.

Well ahead of a proposal by the European Commission for the next framework programme for research member states are haggling between "the friends of excellence" and countries with less-well developed research systems.

List of potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access publishers.

There remain misconceptions and blindspots in the debate around diamond open access publishing. A realistic assessment of the sustainability this approach needs an agnostic assessment of its total costs and viability as a business model.

More interdisciplinary research may have greater relevance and be more heavily cited in policy documents. 

Scientific Research Centers dropped sharply in their representation on this year’s list, the majority of which were lost from S. Korea. Absent from this year’s list are Government Agencies. This is not an indication that such organizations are not innovating, but rather that other sectors are innovating at a faster rate for the period covered.