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NewsChina has overtaken the US when it comes to the highest-impact research
1.67% of papers by Chinese researchers were among the top 1% of the most highly cited articles in 2019, versus 1.62% of those with US authors
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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
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ResearchSwimming molecules come under intense scrutiny
Discoverers of enhanced diffusion in click cycloaddition reactions stand firm after other groups say they can’t reproduce the findings
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NewsResearchGate responsible for illegal content on its site, German court rules
Academic networking site plans to appeal the decision
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ResearchDeviation study suggests numerous elemental analyses are too good to be true
Should journals introduce new requirements for researchers reporting elemental analysis data?
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NewsChemistry textbooks still portray men as scientists while women perform domestic duties
Unequal representation in terms of both roles and the number of women featured revealed
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NewsChina sanctions hundreds of researchers following fraud investigation
Paper mills investigation results in funding bans and fines
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NewsReplication failures cast doubt on some cancer studies
Just 18% of experiments from top papers met all criteria for successful replication
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OpinionDon’t let the burden of proof squeeze the life out of ideas
Extraordinary claims can be extraordinarily stimulating
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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
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NewsResearchGate pulls 200,000 files from its site, amid publisher pressure
Elsevier and ACS demanded removal of number of research articles for infringing copyright
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OpinionDepositing hope for the future
The rise of ChemRxiv might mean that chemists can tackle thornier cultural problems
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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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NewsIvermectin debacle exposes flaws in meta-analysis methodology
Health researchers warn that taking studies at face value is a luxury that they can no longer afford
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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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NewsTenured Kentucky toxicologist resigns ending years-long misconduct charges drama
Long-time University of Kentucky researcher resigns the day before Board was to vote on whether to revoke his tenure for research misconduct
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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