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News
RSC signs new open access scheme with 77 German institutions
New ‘Platinum model’ agreement means that the vast majority of papers in RSC journals from German researchers will be published OA
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Fighting fire with fire: AI can detect phony AI-generated chemistry papers
AI detector created can distinguish human-written chemistry papers from ChatGPT-authored ones with 98–100% accuracy
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Elsevier’s tiered pricing structure will see low-income countries pay least for submissions
Pilot programme will mean researchers from the poorest countries have article fees waived
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Chemistry journal’s reforestation scheme sees 2500 trees planted in first six weeks
Angewandte Chemie partnership aims to plant a tree for every manuscript submitted
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Opinion
Navigating the literature torrent
It’s humanly impossible to filter and read everything worthwhile – let’s embrace assistance
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News
China displaces US as top publisher of high-quality natural science studies
Contribution of researchers in China to Nature Index journals is ‘rapidly gaining ground’, and in 2021 they led in physical sciences and chemistry
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News
Sanctioning of 50 journals raises concerns over special issues in ‘mega-journals’
Paper mills that produce papers to order are thought to be targeting some of the biggest journals
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Chemistry journals that request author photos and bios linked to lower citations for women
Citation effect is statistically significant but diminishes when other variables are taken into account
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Journals to trial tool that automatically flags reproducibility and transparency issues in papers
Software aims to check a paper’s trustworthiness
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Royal Society of Chemistry will make all its journals open access
All RSC journals will be free to read within five years
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AI picks out fake science
Textual analysis tool flags manuscripts that may have come from paper mills
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Top Russian university officials’ predatory publishing record points to deeper malaise
Universities are struggling with serious problems with plagiarism, gift authorship and ethical violations
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Chemistry papers find themselves on the scrapheap quicker than physics ones
50-year-old physics papers are cited seven times more often than those in chemistry
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Careers
Publish in English or perish
The dominance of English in science does not reflect the scientists behind research articles
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News
Invasion of Ukraine begins cascade of decoupling from Russian science
International science projects, scientific publishing and federations have all begun suspending cooperation with Russian scientists in unprecedented reaction
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News
American Chemical Society’s analysis of diversity in its journals confirms an ‘imbalance’
Among journal authors, reviewers and editors, men outnumber women by at least two-to-one
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ResearchGate responsible for illegal content on its site, German court rules
Academic networking site plans to appeal the decision
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China sanctions hundreds of researchers following fraud investigation
Paper mills investigation results in funding bans and fines
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Researchers spent an estimated 130 million hours peer-reviewing papers in 2020
Monetary value of refereeing adds up to $1.5 billion in US alone
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Feature
Four years of chemistry preprints
Nina Notman takes stock of how preprint severs have settled into the chemistry community