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'Most highly cited' criterion is not the most appropriate.

Agency reminds researchers to report foreign ties, keep peer reviews confidential.

For social science and humanities researchers in many parts of the world there are significant barriers to conducting and sharing research, in some cases more so than for science and medicine. In this guest post, Dr. Naveen Minai provides a perspective as a gender studies researcher in Pakistan.

The campaign may have increased misperceptions that the science on the safety of vaccines isn’t settled - as is the case - but rather subject to debate.

Students from Saudi Arabia studying Canada are have been ordered by their government to leave the country in the middle of their courses.

Withdrawal is ordered as part of larger diplomatic spat over Canadian criticism of Saudi arrests of human rights activists.

Foreign faculty in Japan are less productive than their local counterparts on many measures, but better connected to global collaborations.

Funders Jean Lebel and Robert McLean describe a new tool for judging the value and validity of science that attempts to improve lives.​

Overshadowed by the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), another frightening virus is on the loose in that vast, chaotic country: polio. Public health experts have worked for months to stamp out the virus, but it keeps spreading.

Trump puts tariffs on Chinese technology and China retaliates with taxes on US chemicals.

Many of history's greatest scientists were also refugees. These are their stories.

Biochemist Juliet Gerrard will advise the government on key science issues when she takes up the position next month.

From a failed coup in Turkey, to prolonged financial crises in Greece and Spain, researchers in the region are struggling to keep up. 

'Devil in the details' when US and European researchers try to work together under Horizon 2020.  When it comes to US-European relations, nothing is simple these days.

International research collaborations could end in wake of US President Donald Trump’s decision.

Nobel-prize data suggest the productivity of American science has fallen.

EU research ministers will meet at the end of the month to debate how the EU’s next R&D programme, Horizon Europe, can help address the bloc’s societal and economic challenges.

The isolated nation publishes fewer than 100 scholarly articles a year - but as political tensions thaw, researchers hope for greater collaboration.

Publication will highlight pioneering work of scientists searching for cures to diseases like HIV and malaria and solutions to climate change.

The scientists, from the UK, Canada, Australia and other Commonwealth countries, warn that stronger measures are needed to keep global warming under 2 degrees.

The United States and South Korea have the highest tendencies for novel science. China has become a leader in favoring newer ideas when working with basic science ideas and research tools, but is still slow to adopt new clinical ideas. Many locations remain far behind the leaders in terms of their tendency to work with novel ideas.

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

Science funding in Brazil appears frozen at 2017 amounts - its lowest level in 10 years, despite promises of a 40% increase.

Lack of international representation on scientific journals' editorial boards has persisted since 1985.

Philip Campbell to continue at publisher Springer Nature.

As a new president takes office, scientists in the country and beyond should urge the administration to make science a priority, says Dexter Tagwireyi.

About 40 scientific unions and associations plus 140 national and regional science academies and research councils will be subsumed under the umbrella organisation.

Ahmadreza Djalali, a researcher in disaster medicine, has 20 days to appeal against his death sentence.