In this study, a novelty indicator to quantify the degree of citation similarity between a focal paper and a pre-existing same-domain paper from various fields in the natural sciences is applied by proposing a new way of identifying papers that fall into the same domain of focal papers using bibliometric data only. 

By bringing rigorous review and editorial oversight to clinical preprints, eLife hopes to make peer-reviewed preprints a currency of trust in medicine.

Scientific publishing needs to stop treating error-checking as a slightly inconvenient side note and make it a core part of academic research.

The nonsensical computer-generated articles, spotted years after the problem was first seen, could lead to a wave of retractions.

Nearly 900 universities, research organisations, and funding agencies want science publishers to be more transparent and abide by open access rules, after scientists complained their submissions are rejected if they apply a public copyright licence to accepted manuscripts.

Announcing the launch of five new journals, all addressing global health and environmental challenges and rooted in the full values of Open Science.

Tracking how factors such as biases and conflicts of interest creep into editorial boards requires better data.

The push to remove journal paywalls officially started this year. Here's how it works.

Global study of the effects of COVID-19 on research funding, publishing, and library budgets - the truth we found in the gap between perception and reality

Today, we are adding a Public access section to Scholar profiles to help you track and manage public access mandates for your articles.

Some publishers say they are battling industrialized cheating. A Nature analysis examines the 'paper mill' problem - and how editors are trying to cope.

A group of mathematicians invents a fictional researcher as a form of protest, but ethicists argue that the campaign is misguided.

The newly announced California/Elsevier transformative agreement will test the financial sustainability and the financial desirability of the multi-payer model.

The next phase of the Executable Research Article project will focus on reducing barriers to the authoring and publication of reproducible research papers.

For many years and increasingly in the last year, the JAMA Network journals have published many important articles addressing disparities and racism in medical education, research, and health care and highlighting initiatives to help address deep-rooted inequities.