All journals articles – Page 2
-
NewsChina 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
-
NewsSanctioning 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
-
NewsChemistry 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
-
NewsJournals to trial tool that automatically flags reproducibility and transparency issues in papers
Software aims to check a paper’s trustworthiness
-
NewsRoyal Society of Chemistry will make all its journals open access
All RSC journals will be free to read within five years
-
NewsAI picks out fake science
Textual analysis tool flags manuscripts that may have come from paper mills
-
NewsTop Russian university officials’ predatory publishing record points to deeper malaise
Universities are struggling with serious problems with plagiarism, gift authorship and ethical violations
-
NewsChemistry 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
-
CareersPublish in English or perish
The dominance of English in science does not reflect the scientists behind research articles
-
NewsInvasion 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
-
NewsAmerican 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
-
NewsResearchGate responsible for illegal content on its site, German court rules
Academic networking site plans to appeal the decision
-
NewsChina sanctions hundreds of researchers following fraud investigation
Paper mills investigation results in funding bans and fines
-
NewsResearchers spent an estimated 130 million hours peer-reviewing papers in 2020
Monetary value of refereeing adds up to $1.5 billion in US alone
-
FeatureFour years of chemistry preprints
Nina Notman takes stock of how preprint severs have settled into the chemistry community
-
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
-
NewsUS National Labs reach name change agreement with scholarly publishers
Simplified process for researchers to update names on papers
-
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
-
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
-
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