Nature Retracts Paper on Delivery System for CAR T Immunotherapy
Diana Kwon | Feb 20, 2019
The manuscript had amassed more than 50 comments about problematic figures and data on PubPeer.
Springer Nature Now Shares Select Papers on ResearchGate
Springer Nature Now Shares Select Papers on ResearchGate
A pilot project between the scholarly publisher and the academic networking platform launched last week.
A pilot project between the scholarly publisher and the academic networking platform launched last week.
Open-Access Plan in Europe Bans Publishing in Paywalled Journals
Ashley Yeager | Sep 4, 2018
Research funding agencies in Europe will require grantees’ papers to be free to read when they are available online.
Mass Resignation from Scientific Reports’s Editorial Board
Catherine Offord | Nov 6, 2017
Nineteen researchers have stepped down after the journal decided not to retract a paper that they say plagiarized the work of a Johns Hopkins biomedical scientist.
Springer Nature Blocks Access to Sensitive Articles Within China
The Scientist Staff | Nov 1, 2017
The world’s largest publisher yields to censorship policies of the world’s largest country.
Nature Index Identifies Top Contributors to Innovation
Catherine Offord | Aug 9, 2017
New rankings highlight institutions that have produced large numbers of articles cited in others' patents.
The Zombie Literature
Bob Grant | May 1, 2016
Retractions are on the rise. But reams of flawed research papers persist in the scientific literature. Is it time to change the way papers are published?
Know Thy Cells
Jenny Rood | Apr 20, 2015
Nature journals will ask authors to authenticate cell lines used in manuscript submissions starting next month.
Fast-Track Peer Review Controversy
Jef Akst | Mar 31, 2015
An editor of the journal Scientific Reports quits in protest of paid, expedited review.
Nature Debuts Peer-Review Option
Tracy Vence | Feb 18, 2015
Authors submitting to Nature journals can soon request double-blind reviews.