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Authors of rescinded papers see a 10 percent to 20 percent decline in citation rates for their other publications.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

Researchers find that scientific papers with shorter titles accrue more citations only if they are very popular. For papers flying under the radar, longer titles fare better.

Peer reviewers’ assessments of funding proposals to the National Institutes of Health don’t correlate well with later publication citations, a study shows.

Semantic Scholar uses machine reading and vision to extract meaning and impact from academic papers.

A new tool helps scientists better understand what happens to studies that are criticized in the literature.