Project probing whether high-impact papers can be replicated releases latest results

The journal published guidelines on Thursday aimed at reducing scientific misconduct and at making studies easier to check and replicate.

Justices overturn lower court rulings on policy targeting people from six majority-Muslim countries.

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Britain’s relationship with the European Union has been a fruitful one when it comes to higher education. By operating within a larger European network, UK universities have become increasingly competitive in world terms.

Feeding high-quality evidence into policy making remains difficult, but is essential for improving public interventions.

Facts are the science world’s stock-in-trade, but in an era of fake news it is ever more important to build public trust by avoiding exaggerated claims and jargon.

The agency says it is shifting to a new strategy but not from its goal of helping younger scientists compete for NIH support.

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

Use this tool to find out if robots are the future of your profession.

Funding for basic research will not be affected by the dramatic changes planned for the FP9, acording to Carlos Moedas.

Some doubt that the publishing giant will see any money from the pirate site.

Private firm says its watchlist of untrustworthy journals will be objective and transparent — but not free.

Biologist Yoshinori Watanabe publishes extensive response

Why some universities are requiring staff to step down.

Lengthy publication delays, theft of rivals’ research, allegations of shoddy reviewing, and even the faking of reviews are raising new questions about a decades-old scientific tradition

Machine learning meets the political machine.

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Now that the major players have agreed to the giant European Open Science Cloud, it’s time to get the project moving.

Funding agencies announce harsh penalties and stronger policing efforts.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has given notice to dozens of scientists that they will not be renewed in their roles in advising the agency.

Last year, the new Microsoft Academic service was launched. Sven E. Hug and Martin P. Brändle look at how it compares with more established competitors such as Google Scholar, Scopus, and Web of Science.

The party of France’s recently elected president won an absolute majority in its first general elections, with an agenda that included strong support for research.

Carlos Moedas suggested a "decision" to create the platform had already been made.

The European Commission is looking to create its own open-access publishing platform for papers that emerge from its €80bn Horizon 2020 programme.

If Asian universities are going to break into the world’s top 10, at least according to the new QS World University Rankings 2018, the most likely candidate is Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

World-leading research institutes have agreed to join forces with funding agencies and policymakers to create the European Open Science Cloud, the largest shared data repository in history.

Flood of online manuscripts generates confusion about terms for distribution and reuse.

Asking the scientific system to fix itself from the bottom up could place an unacceptable burden on junior scientists.

Jeffrey Beall says he faced 'intense pressure' from the University of Colorado Denver and feared losing his job