A declaration asks the scientific community to put less weight on the metric, widely used to evaluate journals’ prestige.
A declaration asks the scientific community to put less weight on the metric, widely used to evaluate journals’ prestige.
New libel laws for England and Wales should help protect scientific debate, but campaigners worry that legal costs remain a threat.
The journal is sharpening its review of life science papers and giving authors additional space to document more detailed methods.
A study concludes that the open access repository is decreasing biomedical journal readership.
A biomedical researcher whose Nature paper was called into question was found dead in his lab.
A new online tool allows researchers to compare open-access journal publication fees with article influence, and reveals that you don’t necessarily get what you pay for.
Non-confirmatory or “negative” results are not worthless.
A new study reveals that more and more of the world’s most-cited articles are published outside of high prestige, high impact factor journals.
Grading journals on how well they share information with readers will help deliver accountability to an industry that often lacks it.
Overzealous open-access advocates are creating an exploitative environment, threatening the credibility of scholarly publishing.