Indonesia Tops Open-Access Publishing Charts
Countries in southeast Asia, Africa and South America lead the way on free-to-read literature.
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Springer Nature Journals Unify Their Policy to Encourage Preprint Sharing
Recognizing the benefits, we move from merely supporting the use of preprint servers to promoting it.
Artificial Intelligence is Selecting Grant Reviewers in China
The country's major funding agency says the tool reduces the time it takes to find referees.
Expert Advice on How to Prepare a Perfect Funding Application
Expert advice on how to prepare a perfect funding application
Data Sharing and How It Can Benefit Your Scientific Career
Open science can lead to greater collaboration, increased confidence in findings and goodwill between researchers.
How China is Redrawing the Map of World Science
The Belt and Road Initiative, China's mega-plan for global infrastructure, will transform the lives and work of tens of thousands of researchers.
Male Researchers' 'Vague' Language More Likely to Win Grants
Grant reviewers favour 'broad' words used more often by men, but proposals using those terms don't produce better research.
US Science Academy Leaders Approve Plan to Expel Sexual Harassers
The National Academy of Sciences has come under pressure to address misconduct in recent years.
European Universities Dismal at Reporting Results of Clinical Trials
Analysis of 30 leading institutions found that just 17% of study results had been posted online as required by EU rules.
Elsevier Strikes Its First National Deal with Large Open-access Element
Agreement with Norwegian consortium allows researchers to make the vast majority of their work free to read on publication in Elsevier journals.
Rein in the Four Horsemen of Irreproducibility
Threats to reproducibility, recognized but unaddressed for decades, might finally be brought under control. The four horsemen of the reproducibility apocalypse being: publication bias, low statistical power, P-value hacking and HARKing (hypothesizing after results are known).
Networking for Introverted Scientists
Networking is a crucial skill for all scientists. Ruth Gotian offers tips for those who struggle to make it work.
Sexual Harassment is Pervasive in US Physics Programmes
Survey of undergraduate women finds that most experienced some type of unwanted sexual attention during their physics studies. "A lot of times, people study how women can change to better fit in a field or be more successful. Perhaps physics needs to think about changing itself.”
Three-year Trial Shows Support for Recognizing Peer Reviewers
Thousands of Nature referees have chosen to be publicly acknowledged.
'Friendly' Reviewers Rate Grant Applications More Highly
Swiss funding agency banned applicant-nominated referees after a 2016 study found evidence of bias. Those results are now being made public.
Impact Factors Are Still Widely Used in Academic Evaluations
Survey finds that 40% of research-intensive universities mention the controversial metric in review documents - despite efforts to dampen its influence.
FAIRsharing As a Community Approach to Standards, Repositories and Policies
Community-developed standards, such as those for the identification, citation and reporting of data, underpin reproducible and reusable research, aid scholarly publishing, and drive both the discovery and the evolution of scientific practice.
How to Counter 'Manels' and Make Scientific Meetings More Inclusive
Atmospheric scientist Angie Pendergrass spoke to Nature about a newly-published guide to broadening participation in conferences.
Ten Reasons to Move to Germany As a Researcher
Why Germany is becoming a career destination for many researchers.
11 Ways to Avert a Data-storage Disaster
Hard-drive failures are inevitable, but data loss doesn't have to be.
Plagiarism Detectors Are a Crutch, and a Problem
Academics and editors need to stop pretending that software always catches recycled text and start reading more carefully, says Debora Weber-Wulff.
Top US Institutes Still Aren't Reporting Clinical-Trial Results on Time
US law requires researchers to post study findings on a public registry within a year of completion - or face heavy fines.
Scientists Among Thousands Marching to Demand Say on Brexit
Hundreds of thousands of people protested in London to push for a say on the terms of the United Kingdom's departure from the European Union.
It's Time to Talk About Ditching Statistical Significance
Looking beyond a much used and abused measure would make science harder, but better.
The Rise and Fall of Scientific Authority - and How to Bring It Back
Robert P. Crease harks back to the shapers of our scientific infrastructure and what they can tell us about how to handle the threat we now face.
Adopt a Moratorium on Heritable Genome Editing
Eric Lander, Françoise Baylis, Feng Zhang, Emmanuelle Charpentier, Paul Berg and specialists from seven countries call for an international governance framework on genome editing.
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