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Only 3% of EU grant funds went to new entrants to the union between 2007 and 2016.

Scholars fear that affiliation with the high-status Thousand Talents scheme could make them targets of FBI investigations.

Study finds "wasteful" skew in biomedical research funding towards those at the top.

A lack of trained administrators is holding African scientists back.

Research institutions have a duty to foster integrity, and that includes monitoring.

Strength in different sectors, subjects and regions contributes to a country's success.

Too many tools used to promote accountability benefit research managers and for-profit companies at the expense of individual researchers.

Industry funders routinely take charge of analysis and reporting.

The Nature Index looks at the share of science medals and prizes that have gone to women.

Although China leads the pack, fast-moving institutions are building their research reputations the world over.

Universities need to prepare researchers for life beyond academia.

Two new measures aim to assess researchers' independence from their former lab heads. 

These institutions have made great strides over the past three years in their production of high-quality research.

Even sophisticated, data-driven models of academic careers have trouble forecasting the highs and lows.

These newcomers are making their mark in science across the disciplines.

In academia’s great migration, some researchers are at a disadvantage.

'Most highly cited' criterion is not the most appropriate.

Scientists in emerging economies respond fastest to peer review invitations, but are invited least.

Good news for grackles 

"For twenty years people had been telling me how lucky I was to be in our field of research because 'things' were changing for young women. Twenty years later 'things' had not changed.