University of Wollongong epidemiologist Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz speaks with The Scientist about his team’s finding that flawed and fraudulent COVID-19 research continues to be cited.

Too often, studies that aim to develop new treatments for patients fail to adequately cite and build upon research that preceded them.

Governments are variable in their reliance on highly cited research, while international intergovernmental organizations such as the World Health Organization reliably link policy and science, according to an analysis of thousands of policy documents from the first half of 2020.

Then there are the counterfeiters.

Meet some of the people featured in the December 2020 issue of The Scientist.

A study makes policy recommendations to optimize citations, but critics say it fails to acknowledge that citations are a biased and narrow measure of scientific success.

Male researchers are more likely to describe their work in publications using positive superlatives than their female colleagues are, a habit tied to more citations.

Small research groups tend to beat large collaborations when it comes to producing innovative projects and breakthrough discoveries.

China shows the biggest increase of any country in the number of scientists listed since last year, while cancer genomics emerges as one of the more dominant fields.

An analysis of contaminated literature finds that tens of thousands of papers used cell lines of questionable origins—and these were in turn cited by hundreds of thousands of other papers.

Authors of rescinded papers see a 10 percent to 20 percent decline in citation rates for their other publications. 

New rankings highlight institutions that have produced large numbers of articles cited in others' patents.

The Scientist sat down with one of the authors of a recent analysis that quantifies the increasing incursion of open-access content into the world of scholarly publishing.

Consortium pushes for open citation data; Gates Foundation launches open-access publishing platform; Cell Press lifts the veil on papers under consideration; an online widget circumvents some paywalls

Eugene Garfield, founder of the Institute for Scientific Information and The Scientist, has passed away at age 91.

A look back at the contributions of The Scientist’s founder, scientometrics pioneer Eugene Garfield (1925–2017)

A scientist’s most influential paper may come at any point in her career but chances are it won’t change her overall success, researchers show.

Thomson Reuters has transferred the science-citation database, along with the rest of its intellectual property and science division, to private-equity firms.