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Osaka University bets on commercial-academic collaborations to survive.

Institutions could do more to support researchers who have disabilities, says Aaron Schaal.

The REF’s approach to impact incentivizes research that can be obviously linked to outcomes.

Across the scientific fields, Japanese researchers are bringing together the virtual and real worlds.

Noted journal among several reducing article counts in a competitive market.

The new metric will account for annual global changes in the Nature Index corpus.

International collaborations are rising, but not enough to put Japan on the global researcher circuit.

A survey of Canadian scientists finds that evidence-based policy is a top priority.

Clever email strategies can help fight the scourge of academic inboxes.

An analysis of review length raises questions about what quantity means for quality.

Japan's vision of a high-tech, 'super-smart' society relies on sustained investment to arrest scientific decline.

Anomalies in the third national assessment of Indian institutions intensify criticisms of linking the exercise to funding.

Efforts to improve Japan's scientific status include top-down institutional change, but tradition is hard to break.

Finding purpose and meaning in the lab. 

University of California libraries tackle the transition from subscription-based publishing to sustainable open access.

Scholars love to hate the journal impact factor, but how flawed is it?

Gender pay gap reports reveal extent of male favoritism in the UK.

Australian academics will need to prove that they have demonstrated the usefulness of their work to communities, industry and government.

Consideration should be given to the research impact agenda’s effects on female academics, say Julie Davies and Emily Yarrow.

Science super-ministry gains new remit to develop policies that benefit international researchers.