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Authors of rescinded papers see a 10 percent to 20 percent decline in citation rates for their other publications.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