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Career Feature |
Illuminating ‘the ugly side of science’: fresh incentives for reporting negative results
New data repositories and alternative journals and workshops offer routes for sharing negative results — which could help to solve the reproducibility crisis and give machine learning a boost.
- Rachel Brazil
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News |
Mount Etna’s spectacular smoke rings and more — April’s best science images
The month’s sharpest science shots, selected by Nature’s photo team.
- Emma Stoye
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Nature Index |
Plagiarism in peer-review reports could be the ‘tip of the iceberg’
Researchers say swathe of copied text could indicate a widespread problem.
- Jackson Ryan
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News |
How reliable is this research? Tool flags papers discussed on PubPeer
Browser plug-in alerts users when studies — or their references — have been posted on a site known for raising integrity concerns.
- Dalmeet Singh Chawla
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Nature Index |
Algorithm ranks peer reviewers by reputation — but critics warn of bias
There are questions about whether the tool, which could be used by editors to find and shortlist peer reviewers, would disadvantage inexperienced candidates or those in certain locations.
- Dalmeet Singh Chawla
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Career Feature |
Scientists urged to collect royalties from the ‘magic money tree’
By joining a collecting society, researchers can ensure they are paid when copyrighted book content and papers are reproduced.
- Oscar Allan
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Editorial |
Retractions are part of science, but misconduct isn’t — lessons from a superconductivity lab
Journals, funders and institutions that employ researchers all want to produce or disseminate rigorous scientific knowledge — and all can learn lessons from misconduct cases.
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Career News |
Londoners see what a scientist looks like up close in 50 photographs
Nature’s Where I Work images are being exhibited in the UK capital until June.
- Jack Leeming
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Nature Index |
Researchers want a ‘nutrition label’ for academic-paper facts
An ‘at a glance’ approach to publication details, such as journal acceptance rates and the number of peer reviewers, would promote transparency, scientists say.
- Dalmeet Singh Chawla
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World View |
Structure peer review to make it more robust
Everyone who reviews a manuscript should answer a transparent set of questions, to ensure that scientific literature is subject to reliable quality control.
- Mario Malički
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News |
US COVID-origins hearing puts scientific journals in the hot seat
Politicians spar over whether academic publishers colluded with government scientists to suppress the lab-leak hypothesis.
- Max Kozlov
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News |
Is ChatGPT corrupting peer review? Telltale words hint at AI use
A study of review reports identifies dozens of adjectives that could indicate text written with the help of chatbots.
- Dalmeet Singh Chawla
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Editorial |
Rwanda 30 years on: understanding the horror of genocide
Researchers must support and elevate the voices of Rwanda’s scholars and survivors.
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Career Column |
How I harnessed media engagement to supercharge my research career
My initial exposure to the world’s media was serendipitous, but I’ve learnt to be proactive about it — and reaped the benefits.
- Ben Singh
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Career Column |
Three ways ChatGPT helps me in my academic writing
Generative AI can be a valuable aid in writing, editing and peer review – if you use it responsibly, says Dritjon Gruda.
- Dritjon Gruda
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Technology Feature |
‘Without these tools, I’d be lost’: how generative AI aids in accessibility
A rush to place barriers around the use of artificial intelligence in academia could disproportionately affect those who stand to benefit most.
- Amanda Heidt
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News |
Will the Gates Foundation’s preprint-centric policy help open access?
Revised policy says grant recipients must share manuscripts as preprints — and removes support for article-processing charges.
- Mariana Lenharo
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News |
The corpse of an exploded star and more — March’s best science images
The month’s sharpest science shots, selected by Nature’s photo team.
- Emma Stoye
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News |
How papers with doctored images can affect scientific reviews
Scientists compiling a review scan more than 1,000 papers and find troubling images in some 10%.
- Sumeet Kulkarni
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Editorial |
Nature is committed to diversifying its journalistic sources
The latest data are in on the diversity of people interviewed for the journal’s News, Features and Careers articles, and audio and video content.
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News |
Tweeting your research paper boosts engagement but not citations
Analysis of a random selection of papers shared on social media showed no causative link between posting and citations.
- Bianca Nogrady
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News |
Journal editors are resigning en masse: what do these group exits achieve?
Editorial rebellions seem to be on the rise, as researchers seek more control over scholarly communication.
- Katharine Sanderson
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Nature Index |
Is AI ready to mass-produce lay summaries of research articles?
A surge in tools that generate text is allowing research papers to be summarized for a broad audience, and in any language. But scientists caution that major challenges remain.
- Kamal Nahas
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Nature Index |
Peer-replication model aims to address science’s ‘reproducibility crisis’
Researchers propose that independent attempts to replicate results should complement conventional peer review.
- James Mitchell Crow
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Nature Index |
Numbers highlight US dominance in clinical research
Institutions from the country make unrivaled contributions to high-quality health-sciences research in the Nature Index.
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Correspondence |
Embrace AI to break down barriers in publishing for people who aren’t fluent in English
- Charles Morphy D. Santos
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News |
How OpenAI’s text-to-video tool Sora could change science – and society
OpenAI’s debut of its impressive Sora text-to-video tool has raised important questions.
- Jonathan O'Callaghan
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News Feature |
Superconductivity scandal: the inside story of deception in a rising star’s physics lab
Ranga Dias claimed to have discovered the first room-temperature superconductors, but the work was later retracted. An investigation by Nature’s news team reveals new details about what happened — and how institutions missed red flags.
- Dan Garisto
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Editorial |
Nature publishes too few papers from women researchers — that must change
This journal will double down on efforts to diversify the pool of corresponding authors and referees.
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News Q&A |
China has a list of suspect journals and it’s just been updated
Nature talks to the librarian behind China’s Early Warning Journal List about how it is compiled each year.
- Smriti Mallapaty
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News |
Millions of research papers at risk of disappearing from the Internet
An analysis of DOIs suggests that digital preservation is not keeping up with burgeoning scholarly knowledge.
- Sarah Wild
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News |
Giant plume of plasma on the Sun’s surface and more — February’s best science images
The month’s sharpest science shots, selected by Nature’s photo team.
- Emma Stoye
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News Explainer |
Is ChatGPT making scientists hyper-productive? The highs and lows of using AI
Large language models are transforming scientific writing and publishing. But the productivity boost that these tools bring could have a downside.
- McKenzie Prillaman
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News |
Influential abortion-pill studies retracted: the science behind the decision
Nature spoke to researchers about the flaws that triggered the retractions. They say these papers are just the tip of the iceberg.
- Mariana Lenharo
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Editorial |
Why it would be a dangerous folly to end US–China science pact
With renewal of the two countries’ decades-long science pact still on hold, there is too much talk about the risks of collaboration — and too little about the benefits.
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News |
‘All of Us’ genetics chart stirs unease over controversial depiction of race
Debate over figure connecting genes, race and ethnicity reignites concerns among geneticists about how to represent human diversity.
- Max Kozlov
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News |
China conducts first nationwide review of retractions and research misconduct
Universities must declare all their retractions and launch investigations into misconduct cases; a Nature analysis reveals that since 2021 there have been more than 17,000 retractions with Chinese co-authors.
- Smriti Mallapaty
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News Explainer |
How journals are fighting back against a wave of questionable images
Publishers are deploying AI-based tools to detect suspicious images, but generative AI threatens their efforts.
- Nicola Jones
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Nature Index |
COVID’s preprint bump set to have lasting effect on research publishing
Many researchers published their first preprint in the pandemic — and they liked it. Their experience could prompt further integration of the practice.
- Dalmeet Singh Chawla
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News |
Fake research papers flagged by analysing authorship trends
A new approach to detecting fraudulent paper-mill studies focuses on patterns of co-authors rather than manuscript text.
- Dalmeet Singh Chawla
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Editorial |
Open science — embrace it before it’s too late
A UNESCO report laments the lack of progress in making science more collaborative. Greater awareness could aid efforts to achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.
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Nature Index |
Innovative funding systems are key to fighting inequities in African science
A few countries and a select number of institutions will continue to take the vast majority of grants unless funders build diversity into their grant programmes.
- Susan Gichoga
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Career Column |
‘Obviously ChatGPT’ — how reviewers accused me of scientific fraud
A journal reviewer accused Lizzie Wolkovich of using ChatGPT to write a manuscript. She hadn’t — but her paper was rejected anyway.
- E. M. Wolkovich
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Career Q&A |
Passion, curiosity and perseverance: my mission to capture women in science on camera
Genetics researcher Elisabetta Citterio explains why she felt compelled to photograph 57 women who work in STEM fields.
- Josie Glausiusz
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News |
Mysterious exploding star and more — January’s best science images
The month’s sharpest science shots, selected by Nature’s photo team.
- Emma Stoye
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Career Column |
How I learnt to write research papers as a non-native English speaker
Leaving blanks, studying others and paying careful attention to figures all helped Sri Lankan chemist Nuwan Bandara to hone his skills.
- Nuwan Bandara
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News Q&A |
Dana-Farber retractions: meet the blogger who spotted problems in dozens of cancer papers
Nature talks to Sholto David about his process for flagging image manipulation and his tips for scientists under scrutiny.
- Max Kozlov
I’m worried I’ve been contacted by a predatory publisher — how do I find out?