A recent analysis that claimed no evidence of gender-based peer review outcomes fails to account for several factors.

The journal Ethology is the first to adopt the guidelines, aimed at clarifying experimental design and the potential biases within.

Few peer-reviewed clinical papers on the pandemic contained original data, and many of those that did had poor experimental design.

An analysis of data from nearly 150 journals across scientific disciplines finds that, if anything, manuscripts authored by women are treated more favorably than those submitted by men.

Scientists from countries with fewer resources are pushing collaborators from higher-income countries to shed biases and behaviors that perpetuate social stratification in the research community.

The Retraction Watch team takes a look at the most important publishing mistakes this year.

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.