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Researchers replicated 62% of social-behaviour findings published in Science and Nature — a result matched almost exactly by a prediction market.

The technology has potential to solve some transparency problems, but there are many obstacles to clear first.

We need to define impact more clearly to be able to measure it effectively.

Outcry greeted the news that a Tokyo medical school was rigging entrance exam results to favour men, but prominent female scientists say the problem goes further.  

From the top of the wave the view is sweet, but it's all too easy to fall off.

It's bad news for Z but A is AOK for authors listed alphabetically. 

The Open Science movement champions transparency, but how much and how quickly is a matter of dispute.

As China’s scientists strive to produce research with global prestige, urgent local environmental problems jostle for attention.

Radical proposal will be difficult to implement, say NGOs.

Smaller countries rely more on regional collaborations than on domestic interaction.  

A US project is exploring the use of software to assign confidence levels to published research.  

Interdisciplinary encounters across the geosciences are yielding new insights into the workings of Earth and beyond.

Foreign faculty in Japan are less productive than their local counterparts on many measures, but better connected to global collaborations. 

Marketing algorithms prevent many women from seeing the advertising, even though it’s illegal to target jobs to one gender.

Report recommends removing obstacles to the conversion of scientific research into products and services. 

Researchers call for a change in evaluation to recognise the importance of reproducibility.

The younger generation sees a collaborative system as key to discovery and advancement, a three-year tracking project reveals. 

The government is trying to bolster its research workforce but academics say more needs to be done to improve the sector.

The scale of growth in cities challenges scientists and policy-makers.

Institutions in China and Japan dominate the chemistry top 10 in the Nature Index.