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The editors of the Lancet Group examined The Lancet's peer-review processes to identify ways of further reducing risks of research and publication misconduct.

Getting rid of harmful papers is a vital step toward reestablishing readers' trust. Next, publishers should target articles that are flawed in other ways.

Universities need to genuinely support mentorship training for faculty members.

In support of #PeerRevWk20 theme #TrustInPeerReview, we asked the Chefs how trust in peer review could be improved. See what they said and add your thoughts!

Europe's flagship science agency will be crucial to a post-coronavirus world. Slashing its budget will be a senseless act.

Efforts to find and deploy a coronavirus vaccine should be as transparent as possible to increase the chances of success - but the reality is often sadly different.

The language algorithm GPT-3 continues our descent into a post-truth world.

A silver-bullet vaccine is far from guaranteed. But it's also not the only way out of the pandemic.

Coronavirus shows why open publishing is vital, but could make it unaffordable, says Martin Eve.

The FAIR principles answer the 'How' question for sharing research data, but we also need consensus on the 'What' question.

This blog calls for a better scientific quality by pointing to the shortcomings in academia.

To dream of imminent solutions is only human. But progress will come from controlled expectations.

We aren't very good at discussing trade-offs, but we need to make some during this pandemic.

In the media circus surrounding the pandemic, it's the loudest researchers who have been heard the most. Why it is important that we also listen to quieter voices in future, and why the state of scientific knowledge should be communicated with greater candour.

"The glacial progress our community has made to remedy our historic and present day exclusion, have been chronicled for longer than I have been alive", says Kenneth Gibbs. 

Technology gave us the dream of a cocooned future. Now we're living it.

Centuries of bias have impeded the advance of human knowledge. As the COVID-19 pandemic makes evident, new threats may emerge suddenly. The world cannot protect itself without the intelligence and skill of half the human race.

The publishing contract reads like a classic big deal for journal subscriptions. But then, only a short addendum of 1.5 pages deals with the new Open Access workflow.

Responses to the pandemic in India's slums, Brazil's favelas and Africa's marketplaces show that networks play a crucial part in making cities more resilient. Let's enhance and empower them.

A century ago, children in New York City attended classes during a pandemic. It seemed to work.

We do not have to live in a constant state of fear that our health is being put at-risk. We can restore and strengthen science-based decision-making processes that are protected from political interference. Today, we are releasing our first set of recommendations providing a roadmap for how the fede

Letting the rich pay for science that interests them is a bad idea—even if they aren’t convicted sex offenders.

Kaoru Sakabe is academic publishing’s version of an in-house detective. In 2017, she and editors at the Journal of Biological Chemistry (JBC) conducted a pilot study looking for image manipulation in accepted papers. When 10% of papers came back with a possible issue, the team was shocked.

Switzerland will soon vote on whether to cancel the agreement on the free movement of persons, thus terminating the well-established Bilateral Agreements with the EU. Only by networking fully with its European neighbors and the world in general, can the high standards the Swiss hold for themselves be maintained.

Schools face rising demands for tuition rebates, increased aid and leaves of absence as students ask if college is becoming "glorified Skype."

Generating new knowledge is a relatively straightforward concept compared with the more unknown territory of getting knowledge to those that might need it.

Pandemic policy must include defining and measuring what we mean by mild infection.

Leaked letter to Commission shows major pushback against ERC Scientific Council's doubt over open-access initiative

Universities and those who work there must reimagine spaces, behaviour and processes to promote a sense of belonging for everyone.