Analyzing evaluation dynamics across the editorial review and peer review stages, this study finds strong selective effects associated with higher institutional prestige, larger team size, and certain topics and countries.

Climate policy support varied more across cultural worldviews than biodiversity policy support, according to a survey in Japan.

A new study identifies five audience 'classes' based on people's perceptions of scientists’ credibility

Tenure is a defining feature of the US academic system with significant implications for research productivity and creative search. Yet the impact of tenure on faculty research trajectories remains poorly understood. 

Journal of Research on Research (J·ROR) is a new international peer reviewed journal that publishes commentaries, reviews, article and analyses of research management, governance, dissemination, practice, theory and assessment.

Queen Mary University researchers have developed a new AI-powered framework designed to help scientists review and analyse vast amounts of literature faster, more transparently, and with greater human oversight.

Trial disruptions threaten efforts to improve the lack of diversity in clinical research.

This article describes a course module that introduces MSc students at Utrecht University in the Netherlands to this part of the publication process.

Large-scale analysis reveals “disruptive” innovations in research history.

Institutional science communication has become a central tool for addressing the challenges of disinformation and strengthening public trust in public institutions. 

Why do studies on whether religion is disappearing totally contradict each other? Valeria Rainero, Jörg Stolz and Ruud Luijkx discuss their recent research on how faith (or lack of it) shaped interventions in the secularisation debate and suggest how the social sciences could benefit from less adversarial claims to objectivity in research.

Interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research are promoted because of their contribution to addressing complex societal challenges. However, barriers to these research modes persist, some of which emerge from challenges in assessing inter- and transdisciplinary research. This article uses the sensitising concept of ‘values’ to study the entanglement of inter- and transdisciplinary research practices and their assessment. 

This paper presents a systematic review of the literature on hyperprolific authorship to examine how it is defined, investigated, and perceived across disciplines.

City governments’ ability to drive green transitions depends not only on technological solutions and administrative capacity, but also on democratic legitimacy.

Efforts to advance towards a more sustainable world focus heavily on a limited set of actions and actors while overlooking key strategies and sectors needed to address the climate crisis and biodiversity loss, according to a new study.

New research has found that we are more likely to back policies aimed at tackling climate change when we feel fearful – but feelings of dread make us less likely to support such policies.

Scientific excellence is clustering ever more tightly in a few ‘superstar’ cities. Four—New York, Boston, London and the San Francisco Bay Area—now host 12% of the world's top scientists. 

A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies.

Is open scholarship an honest signal of researcher integrity? Preliminary evidence suggests that data and code sharing, preprinting, and other open behaviors are indeed less common in papermill articles.

What the legacy of Trump's storm will be? Will its impacts fade, allowing researchers to go back to their old ways? Or will some things be permanently altered?

When studying policy-relevant topics, researchers’ policy preferences may shape analytical decisions and results interpretations.

"Enshittification" isn’t just confined to the online world. In fact, it’s now visible in academic publishing and occurs in five stages. The same forces that hollow out digital platforms are shaping how a lot of research is produced, reviewed and published.