Universities try to keep abusive researchers on major projects
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Leading science funder warns institutions that faculty who mistreat staff can’t remain as grant supervisors Read more
Approximately 25 percent of citations in leading history journals were found to be inaccurate in a recent study published by a trio of academic researchers. Read more
China continued to produce more publications last year than anywhere else, according to new report Read more
All 44 members of Critical Public Health board resign over Taylor & Francis’ article processing charges and alleged push for minimum paper counts Read more
A new study suggests the Department of Justice’s China Initiative investigations may have strengthened the foreign power by encouraging more scientists to relocate there. Read more
Surge in downloads ‘reflects industry failure’ to meet sector’s needs amid rising demand for papers, researchers say Read more
Centre-periphery model of higher education ‘already obsolete’, with strong research output from a growing number of nations, scholar tells Boston conference Read more
China has overtaken the US to become the biggest contributor to nature-science journals, in a sign of the country’s growing influence in the world of academic research. Read more
Calls to transform the European Union’s research repository into a “collective, non-profit, large-scale publishing service for the public good” that could rival commercial publishers have been described as “naïve” and a distraction to the open-access mission by experts. Read more
More than 40 leading scientists have resigned en masse from the editorial board of a top science journal in protest at what they describe as the “greed” of publishing giant Elsevier. Read more