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OpinionJean-Marie Lehn: ‘Science or music really can take up all your life’
The supramolecular innovator on the importance of different cultures in research, working like a pianist, and being shocked by an opera
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NewsCommunity voices concerns over American Chemical Society magazine
Board members’ open letter warns of ‘detrimental changes’ after restructure at C&EN
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OpinionKnocking down paywalls
President Biden’s surprise announcement ending paywalls for federally-funded research by 2026 has left publishers scrambling to respond
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News800 crystallography-related papers appear to stem from one paper mill
Preprint reports questionable images in papers that are all from authors based at Chinese hospitals
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NewsApparent plagiarism leads Elsevier to retract periodic table book
Chemist contacted by suspicious Wikipedia editor finds that large sections were lifted from online encyclopaedia
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OpinionTake nobody’s word for it
Sceptic communities should question their own biases toward peer review
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OpinionVivian Yam: ‘Teaching and research go hand in hand’
The innovative photochemist on rigour, iconic discoveries and starting from scratch
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BusinessRussian Covid-19 vaccine data raises questions
Suspected data manipulation or fabrication casts shadows over safety trial report for hastily-approved Sputnik V
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OpinionLetters: September 2020
Readers continue to debate Tomáš Hudlický’s Angewandte Chemie article, and wax lyrical about water and waste
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CareersMoving towards fairer academic rewards
New incentive systems take into account more than just a researcher’s publication history
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OpinionFrances Arnold’s retraction and the case for slow science
Frances Arnold’s masterful retraction highlights the problems with publication-driven science
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NewsJournal impact factors wrongly used to evaluate research
Despite criticism, some universities still use the metric as a proxy for research quality
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PuzzleOn the spot: expert reviewer
Should you review a paper that covers research you also work on?
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NewsArgentina’s science surge
Science budgets in Argentina have jumped 10-fold since the country’s first science minister was appointed in 2007
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Figshare to offer institutional data platform
Universities can pay for a scientific repository that will hold all their research in one place and control whether it’s public or private
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RSC takes top UK business award
Society is commended for substantial growth in its overseas earnings
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NewsScientists: workaholics but happy
A study of the patterns of journal paper downloads shows scientists work through the night and at weekends
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Opinion
Nullius in verba
Philip Ball asks how much of the published literature you should believe. Not much, by some accounts