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India, Peru and Vietnam are rolling out policies that limit opportunities for scientists who fall foul of research-integrity guidelines.

A Nature Index analysis tracked first and last authorships to see which journals struggled to improve female representation over the past decade.

In many countries, female engineers are barred from entering deep mines to carry out studies. Differentiating risks can increase access while protecting safety.

Proponents argue that the current system creates a false sense of precision, but critics fear that the change could increase political interference.

QED Science says that its metrics reduce bias by assessing papers solely on the basis of their originality and validity.

The technology is proving adept at finding faults in decades-old papers and reference databases.

Databases and submission systems are often inflexible. Can’t publishers do more on author names?

The smallest building blocks are enabling next-generation solutions.

Scientists are harnessing its ability to fold, switch and reorganize itself to create a new generation of cellular technologies.

The field seems to be on the cusp of big advances, but a concerted effort is needed to realize its true potential.

Nanoparticle technologies hold promise for delivering gene therapies to children with few treatment options.

Researchers say that transparent publishing practices could be associated with research quality, but more evidence is needed.

Chief US science adviser calls for a shake-up in funding while handing out grants to accelerate research with AI.

The proportion of one- and two-author papers in the Nature Index is shrinking rapidly, as science done by big teams continues to surge.

Republicans and Democrats worry about research theft and exploitation — but don’t agree on how to solve the problem.

American institutions lead the way in this newly added Nature Index subject.

Central conclusions rarely change when biomedical preprints go on to be published in journals.

Passwords, GPS coordinates and private conversations have all been found in the metadata and source files of millions of preprint submissions.

The National Natural Science Foundation of China says it will fund an extra 12,000 projects from this year.

Potentially fraudulent papers often cite each other and could be inflating the impact factor of journals in which they are published.