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NewsElsevier’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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NewsChemistry 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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NewsPublishers settle copyright infringement lawsuit with ResearchGate
Elsevier and the American Chemical Society resolve ongoing claims with an automated check on papers’ copyright status
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NewsRetraction Watch database bought by Crossref
Deal aims to make retractions easier for researchers to spot
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NewsChina considers stripping degrees from academics who misuse AI
Current and former university students in China shown to have used artificial intelligence tools to write dissertations could get degrees revoked
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NewsIs scientific fraud getting worse in chemistry papers?
A new study shows an increase in chemistry papers retracted for fraud and experts say scientific publishing is compounding the problem
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OpinionNavigating the literature torrent
It’s humanly impossible to filter and read everything worthwhile – let’s embrace assistance
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NewsChemical weapons expert forces UK government to back down on blacklisting policy
Guidance that has seen experts blocked from speaking at government conferences over criticism of policies to be reviewed
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NewsFirst publisher abandons impractical elemental analysis standard as journals eye next move
Historical ±0.4% accuracy standard was discovered to have little evidence backing in 2022
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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
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CareersGiving technicians the recognition they deserve
Schemes such as the Technician Commitment are starting to address problems with authorship and career development
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NewsDedicated committee needed to tackle research reproducibility problems in the UK
UK House of Commons report suggests government needs to play a bigger role addressing issues affecting science
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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
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NewsProlific Spanish chemist suspended over multiple affiliations
Case raises fresh questions over chemists that are an author on many manuscripts
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NewsRoyal Society of Chemistry partners with ResearchGate to promote open access
Society hopes to reach a wide range of researchers, beyond the 1.5 million chemists worldwide who use the academic social networking site
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OpinionScientific authorship in the time of ChatGPT
With AI-generated texts here to stay, we need to recognise that intellectual work is much more than just writing
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OpinionRelying on the h-index harms the careers of people who take career breaks
More holistic methods are needed to accurately assess the quality of a researcher’s work
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OpinionHuman genome editing in perspective
Ethical, cultural and safety considerations are high priorities for researchers
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OpinionTurning negative results into positives
Publishing unsuccessful experiments is more important than ever as we try to train machines in chemistry
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