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Private firm says its watchlist of untrustworthy journals will be objective and transparent — but not free.
Confidential feedback from many interacting reviewers can help editors make better, quicker decisions.
Nature will publish more details on experiments described in life-sciences papers.
Confidential feedback from many interacting reviewers can help editors make better, quicker decisions.
Containerization technology takes the hassle out of setting up software and can boost the reproducibility of data-driven research.
We find Nature Research's critical attitude towards journal impact factors, embodied in its signing of the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA; Nature 544, 394; 2017), to be inconsistent with the aims of its Nature Index.
Efforts to promote and enforce shared research have made progress in China, but there is much room for improvement.
Cornerstone of modern science immortalized in concrete.
How several free software tools have fundamentally upgraded our approach to collaborative research, making our entire workflow more transparent and streamlined.
Papers need to include fewer claims and more proof to make the scientific literature more reliable.
The blockchain technology that underpins cryptographic currencies can support sustainability by building trust and avoiding corruption, explains Guillaume Chapron.
Independent professionals advance science in ways faculty-run labs cannot, and such positions keep talented people in research, argues Steven Hyman.
Presenting science as a battle for truth against ignorance is an unhelpful exaggeration.
China has a lucrative market for fake research reagents. Some scientists are fighting back.
An intellectual free-for-all doesn’t lead to the common ground on which research can build.
Without data on how artificial intelligence is affecting jobs, policymakers will fly blind into the next industrial revolution, warn Tom Mitchell and Erik Brynjolfsson.
Researchers and manufacturers face possible jail time — or execution — for fraudulent submissions to nation's drug agency.
Rise in copyright breaches prompts industry to discuss ways to allow ‘fair sharing’ of articles.
Funders should force universities to support laboratories’ research health
Alfredo Fusco denies claims that his research lab hired a photo studio to manipulate images.
Science panels still rely on poor proxies to judge quality and impact.
Nature journals have signed up to the principles of the Declaration on Research Assessment agreement.
Journal editors tend to accept manuscripts written by prior collaborators more quickly.
They say they don't have the time or incentives to do research — and that’s dangerous for translational medicine.
Analysis reveals that female researchers are over-represented on the social-media site and that mathematicians and life scientists are less likely to use it.
Beth Simone Noveck urges researchers to work out how technology can improve public institutions.