ScienceGeist

China’s much-anticipated brain initiative finally starts to take shape.

Government overhaul prompts fears that funding will drop for basic research.

China produces the most scientific articles, but lags on other measures. 

The altering of the Chinese national constitution to remove the text limiting China’s president and vice-president to two terms, cementing Xi Jinping’s leadership possibly for the next two decades, will mean a further ideological tightening in universities, and an extension of ‘Xi Jinping research’ in institutions.

Chinese officials say they are seeing a payoff from their investments in higher education.

The global #MeToo movement is slowly catching on in China, despite strict censorship on the internet. After highly-regarded Beihang University professor Chen Xiaowu was dismissed over multiple allegations of sexual misconduct, students and alumni from dozens of top universities have launched on petitions demanding that school administrators establish official policies …

The percentage of funding for basic science R&D in the central government's total financial input in science and technology has reached the level of developed countries, according to an official overseeing resource allocation and management at the ministry.

For the first time, China has overtaken the United States in terms of the total number of science publications, according to statistics compiled by the US National Science Foundation (NSF).

The country’s research could soon dominate the world stage, but pitfalls lie in wait.

Han Chunyu retracted disputed ‘breakthrough’ research but still enjoys support from university and local government.

Scholars and political leaders describe increasing concerns about Chinese government influence over teaching and research in the U.S. and Australia.

China is taking the idea of a credit score to the extreme, using big data to track and rank what you do - your purchases, your pastimes, your mistakes.

The Financial Times disclosed that Springer Nature has blocked access in China to at least 1,000 articles from the websites of two of its journals in response to Beijing’s censorship demands.

Controversial policy means mainstream media are starting to rival rigorous academic publications in some universities in China.

Fraudulent research and faked peer reviews have led to a humiliating setback for China's goal of becoming a global leader in scientific research.

This study investigated the status quo of article retractions by Chinese researchers.

New restrictions hamper access to websites useful for research.

The landscape of the cash-per-publication reward policy in China and reveal its trend since the late 1990s.

Academics pressure publisher as Beijing mouthpiece says western institutions can leave if they don’t like ‘the Chinese way’

The Cambridge University Press faced academic outrage after agreeing to remove articles about Tibet, Tiananmen Square and China's Cultural Revolution.

Academics and activists decry publisher’s decision to comply with a Chinese request to block more than 300 articles from leading China studies journal.

Fertility centres are making a massive push to increase preimplantation genetic diagnosis in a bid to eradicate certain diseases.

More than 400 authors on some 100 papers from a single journal face punishments

The Chinese government finds almost 500 researchers guilty of misconduct in relation to a recent spate of retractions from a cancer journal.

China and other countries should look again at how they pay bonuses and allocate grants that are based on individual research papers.

Efforts to promote and enforce shared research have made progress in China, but there is much room for improvement.