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

Further security service-directed restrictions could deal ‘serious blow’ to West’s China studies and isolate Chinese academics Read more

Scientific community counts nation’s economic losses from two decades of underinvestment but can’t budge Trudeau government Read more