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In recent years, the rise of hyperprolific authors, researchers with exceptionally high publication counts, has drawn increasing attention in debates on research integrity and evaluation. This paper presents a systematic review of the literature on hyperprolific authorship to examine how it is defined, investigated, and perceived across disciplines.
Nearly thirty years ago a paper was published claiming women academics need to work 2.4 times harder than their male counterparts to attain the same status. Re-examining this paper, Ulf Sandström questions its validity and suggests what higher education policymakers can learn from this overreliance on a single study.
EU governments have key questions to resolve if agreement on the next EU research programme is to be reached in May.
Some want reproachment with Beijing, but others in Europe are wary of rekindling research and technology collaboration
By treating leadership as a future role, research training overlooks skills trainees practice daily and delays their development.
Ireland has launched a five-year strategy to boost research and innovation. It sets out how the newly minted funder Research Ireland can shape the country’s research landscape, not just fund it.
The reframing of European research and innovation in terms of competitiveness, strategic autonomy and security carries unvoiced consequences.
Efforts to advance towards a more sustainable world focus heavily on a limited set of actions and actors while overlooking key strategies and sectors needed to address the climate crisis and biodiversity loss, according to a new study.
A randomized controlled study demonstrates that large language model-generated feedback can make reviews more informative while enhancing reviewer-author engagement. Preprint available: https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.09737
The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) plans to stop paying to publish their papers in international free-to-read journals it regards as too expensive amid effort to grow the country’s own journals.
Switzerland will host the next Global Summit on AI in Geneva in 2027. This was announced by the President of the Swiss Confederation, Guy Parmelin, in New Delhi at the AI Impact Summit in the presence of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
What would it mean to support community-led publishing as infrastructure, rather than as a collection of heroic individual efforts?
New research finds no clear evidence that targeted funding leads to larger or more abrupt shifts in research topics than non-targeted funding. Instead, changes in research focus tend to be gradual, and similar in scale across both funding modes.
The experience of UK-Ukraine research collaboration demonstrates the critical importance of structures when systems and individuals are under pressure.
Twenty African grantmakers have formed a new alliance, bolstered by US$42 million.
The solution is not to replace existing PhD programs, but to add a STEM innovation PhD track.
Each year, the world's leading climate scientists evaluate the most critical evidence on how our planet is changing. The latest report delivers a stark warning.
