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Preprint journal clubs offer a scalable way to make peer-review training a routine part of scientific education.

A higher proportion of scientists in China and India report feeling optimistic about the future than in the United States and several European countries.

Researchers have found a link between a scientist’s experience and and whether their ideas have a lasting influence.

Major preprint platform tightens its rules to curb a surge of submissions, including those generated by artificial-intelligence tools.

Assimilating the latest technology into health systems is a key challenge facing the field.

The nation is on a trajectory to lead the world in science, a development that will reshape technological advancement, innovation and the balance of global power.

To harness the full value of wearable devices for monitoring and diagnosing medical conditions, protocols must be established.

Researchers are making great advances across medical disciplines, using a wide range of tools and processes.

These nations are making their distinct mark in the field through specialization and collaboration.

Researchers question whether these will work to stem the deluge of manuscipts.

The overuse of certain names has revealed the scale of fake experts on academic publishing platforms, say researchers.

Freelance peer-review jobs through third-party companies raise practical and ethical questions.

A Nature investigation reveals a network of organizations that have been building their ranks through deceptive practices.

Although the field’s breakthrough research has the potential to save lives, it requires a more in-depth and equitable foundation of research.

The field will not reach its potential using data sets in which women and non-binary people are not fully represented.

The United States leads, but China poses strong competition, according to the latest Nature Index data.

Scientists are working to transform the body’s most versatile cells into viable therapies, but the challenge of immunosuppression looms.

A study tracking diamond open-access journals has found an increase in titles switching to other publishing models — especially over the past few years.

Affected Chinese companies adjusted their sources of knowledge to stay competitive.

The Paper2Agent system makes it easier for researchers to reproduce papers and understand work in unfamiliar fields, authors say.