drug development, science publishing

Despite high-profile political tensions between the two countries, researchers in the US and China are working together now more than ever, according to our bibliometric study.

Despite some difficult negotiations, academic institutions in the Netherlands have been securing subscriptions that combine publishing and reading into one fee.

A new screening tool flags dozens of papers with potential errors.

The World Health Organization again calls upon researchers to register clinical trial details in freely accessible databases before initiation of the study.

BioMed Central retracts 43 papers it had been investigating for evidence of faked peer review.

The research community doesn’t need more journals. It’s time we embrace non-traditional publishing platforms.

Users of post-publication peer review forums like PubPeer often question perceived inaccuracies in scientific papers. Are the journals that published those papers paying attention?

eLife introduces a new article format that allows authors to update their publications as new methods, data, or analyses become available.

Tracking chikungunya virus; reconsidering wood decay-based fungal classification; ASC specks spread inflammation; antibiotic tolerance in E. coli; RIKEN review yields corrections

From the launch of preprint servers and post-publication peer review platforms to shakeups within the open-access movement, science publishing saw much change in 2013.

A look at this year’s most memorable retractions

As scientific publications age, the data that undergird them are disappearing at an alarming rate.

PubMed launches Commons; measuring HIV’s latent reservoir; immune-related pathway variation in genome, microbiome; rapamycin and flu vaccines; grasshopper mice resistant to pain

Bias in preclinical research; medical marijuana for kids; a swath of microbial genomes; plastic ocean habitats; rethinking scientific evaluation

Asymmetry in the Research Excellence Framework in the U.K. is a threat to basic medical sciences within British medical schools.

Legislators have dropped the Research Works Act, which would have nixed policies that require federally funded research findings to be deposited in public databases.