All journals articles – Page 2
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FeatureFour years of chemistry preprints
Nina Notman takes stock of how preprint severs have settled into the chemistry community
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NewsChemists react to UK umbrella funding body’s new open access mandate
Agency aligns itself with principles of Plan S by insisting on immediate open access
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NewsUS National Labs reach name change agreement with scholarly publishers
Simplified process for researchers to update names on papers
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NewsReliability of researcher metric the h-index is in decline
Productivity and citation impact tool is no longer an effective measure of scientific reputation, according to new analysis
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NewsGap between number of men and women in science globally is slowly closing
But men are still publishing more papers than women even after correcting for age
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NewsOver 800 European research institutions and funders urge publishing reform
Publishers must let researchers deposit their manuscripts in an open repository with no embargo, joint statement asserts
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NewsPublishers grapple with an invisible foe as huge organised fraud hits scientific journals
Hundreds of fake research manuscripts from paper mills have flooded biochemical and biomedical journals in recent years. But how do you stop large-scale fraud barely anything is known about?
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NewsProminent US chemical engineer leaves post amid allegations of image irregularities
69 studies have been flagged on PubPeer
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NewsUniversity of California and Elsevier finally reach open access deal
After walking away two years ago, the university secures open access for it researchers on the condition they chip in for publishing costs
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NewsElite scientists picking up more citations than ever as the rest lose out
Top 1% of scientists took 21% of citations in 2015
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NewsDozens of publishers oppose key provision in open access Plan S
Over 50 publishers fear open access publishing initiative’s ‘Rights Retention’ strategy could harm journal revenue and article quality
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NewsImposters hijack journal’s peer review process to publish substandard papers
Scammers set up fake institutional email accounts to deceive a chemistry publication’s editorial team
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NewsRSC approves policy allowing researchers to change names on papers
New protocol allows researchers to update names on previously published work
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NewsNature journals set to offer all authors open access route in 2021 – for a price
Publisher comes in for criticism from scientists for €9500 price tag to publish a paper
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NewsImproper publishing incentives in science put under microscope around the world
Gaming of systems puts quality research at risk
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NewsBlow to open access Plan S as European Research Council withdraws
Disagreements over hybrid publishing caused research funder to part ways with coalition
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NewsAngewandte essay calling diversity in chemistry harmful decried as ‘abhorrent’ and ‘egregious’
Third of journal board resigns over the now-deleted manuscript that chemists say reflects widespread bias in publishing and research
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NewsScholarly publishers join forces to fast-track Covid-19 studies
Researchers asked to volunteer as ‘rapid reviewers’ for coronavirus manuscripts, and over 1000 have already answered the call
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NewsMost major journals’ peer review and preprint policies are unclear
Roughly one-third of 171 top academic journals surveyed offer no info on the type of peer review they use, and 40% have ambiguous preprint rules
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NewsTrump pressed by Nobel laureates to make US-funded research available for free
White House proposal for free and immediate access to taxpayer-funded research currently appears to be stalled