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Even Honest Research Results Can Flip - a New Approach to Assessing Robustness in the Social Sciences
Even Honest Research Results Can Flip - a New Approach to Assessing Robustness in the Social Sciences
As Science Faces External Attacks, It Needs to Look Within to Defend and Reform
AI-based Fake Papers Are a New Threat to Academic Publishing
Why being open about science can make people trust it less, and what to do about it
Why being open about science can make people trust it less, and what to do about it
When people trust science, they can make better decisions, follow helpful rules and work together on big problems like health, climate change and new technology. But if people stop trusting science, it's easier for false information to spread, and harder to solve those problems.
What's Driving UK Universities to Set Up Campuses in India in a Changing Global Education Order?
Male Researchers Retract More Papers Than Their Female Peers
Universities Must Lead in Reclaiming Scientific Sovereignty
A Massive Fraud Ring Is Publishing Thousands of Fake Studies and the Problem is Exploding.
A Massive Fraud Ring Is Publishing Thousands of Fake Studies and the Problem is Exploding.
PLOS Responds to PNAS Study Detailing the Growth of Peer Review Integrity Issues
PLOS Responds to PNAS Study Detailing the Growth of Peer Review Integrity Issues
A new PNAS study uses openly available articles to map the scale of paper mill and peer review ring activity across scholarly publishing.
UK recovers position in EU’s Horizon Europe science research programme
Scientists received €735m in grants in 2024 after UK rejoined programme as associate member post-Brexit
Science|Business Summer Reads of 2025
Trump Hands Political Appointees Control over Science Funding: Here's Why Researchers Are Sounding the Alarm
The Rise of the Ghost Academic
The academic conference no-show might feel like a minor inconvenience, but it might represent evidence of a growing concern with CV padding over contributions to the field.
What's Coming Up in Research Policy in the Second Half of 2025?
So far, 2025 has seen a flurry of policy initiatives as the new European Commission got down to work. August offers a moment to pause and reflect ahead of a busy autumn.
Exclusive: Retraction-prone Editors Identified at Megajournal PLoS ONE
Exclusive: Retraction-prone Editors Identified at Megajournal PLoS ONE
Europe is breaking its reliance on American science
European governments are taking steps to break their dependence on critical scientific data the United States historically made freely available to the world, and are ramping up their own data collection systems to monitor climate change and weather extremes
Switzerland Offers No Lifeboat to US Scientists
How the US Fails at Science Diplomacy, but Could Do Better
How the US Fails at Science Diplomacy, but Could Do Better
The country is lagging behind the EU and China as a reliable research partner. But this can be fixed.
Experts Defend ERC from Commission Overreach in FP10
The European Commission's push to exert more control over the European Research Council (ERC) risks undermining one of the EU's most successful scientific institutions, policy experts warn.