What bioRxiv’s first 30,000 preprints reveal about biologists More than 1 million studies are now downloaded from the site every month, mostly in neuroscience, bioinformatics and genomics. Joshua Rapp Learn 24 Jan 2019
False news travels fast One of the year’s hottest papers shows online story-tellers are lukewarm when it comes to truth. Gemma Conroy News 28 Dec 2018
Egypt and Pakistan had highest rise in research output in 2018 Global production of scientific papers hit an all-time high this year, estimates show, with emerging economies rising fastest. Anita Makri 27 Dec 2018
Scientists struggle with confusing journal guidelines Global survey finds that unclear publishing policies place an additional burden on many scientists who don’t speak English as a first language. Dalmeet Singh Chawla 14 Nov 2018
High-profile journals put to reproducibility test Researchers replicated 62% of social-behaviour findings published in Science and Nature — a result matched almost exactly by a prediction market. Philip Ball 30 Aug 2018
Could blockchain unblock science? The technology has potential to solve some transparency problems, but there are many obstacles to clear first. Jon Brock Comment 29 Aug 2018
The A to Z of paper authorship It's bad news for Z but A is AOK for authors listed alphabetically. Gemma Conroy News 21 Aug 2018
How freely should scientists share their data? The Open Science movement champions transparency, but how much and how quickly is a matter of dispute. Daniel Barron News 16 Aug 2018
For the sake of science, it’s time to break ranks Researchers call for a change in evaluation to recognise the importance of reproducibility. Anja Krieger News 26 Jul 2018
Early-career researchers herald change The younger generation sees a collaborative system as key to discovery and advancement, a three-year tracking project reveals. David Nicholas et al.* Comment 25 Jul 2018
Who gets credit? Survey digs into the thorny question of authorship Most researchers agree that drafting papers and interpreting results deserve recognition — but opinions don’t always match authorship guidelines. Giorgia Guglielmi News 31 May 2018
Open-access model is a return to the origins of journal publishing Until recently, many university and society journals operated at a loss, says Gavin Moodie. Gavin Moodie Comment 11 May 2018
April publishing lull follows end-of-year academic flurry Workloads influence when authors submit papers to journals. Gemma Conroy News 26 Apr 2018
Applied Physics Letters publishes ‘fewer, but better’ articles Noted journal among several reducing article counts in a competitive market. News 17 Apr 2018
The undercover academic keeping tabs on ‘predatory’ publishing Following the shutdown of Beall’s list, blacklists that warn against questionable publishers are in demand. Dalmeet Singh Chawla 22 Mar 2018
Q&A John Ioannidis: Biomedicine warms to preprints It’s wrong to dismiss preprint repositories as the junkyards of science, warns Ioannidis. Q&A 13 Feb 2018
Paper authorship goes hyper A single field is behind the rise of thousand-author papers. News feature 30 Jan 2018
Here’s what’s wrong with companies backing out of science COMMENT: The withdrawal of large US corporations from research is narrowing the scope of innovation. Ashish Arora, Sharon Belenzon & Andrea Patacconi Comment 12 Dec 2017
The shifting corporate–academic relationship in pictures Research partnerships between industry and academia have more than doubled in five years. Nature Index Dataviz 11 Dec 2017
India's misfire on predatory publishing hits open access In trying to thwart predators, the government is penalizing researchers who publish in genuine open-access journals. T.V. Padma News 5 Dec 2017