About one in five of the 100 life sciences articles listed in the past year in The Scientist’s “Hot Papers” column was written by scientists at just three research institutions— Harvard University, ...

Over the past decade, furtive commercial entities around the world have industrialized the production, sale and dissemination of bogus scholarly research. These paper mills are profiting by ...

From ‘Envy, inequality and fertility’ to ‘Market size, trade and productivity’, using catchy three-part phrases in the titles of research papers can boost their citations, suggests a study. The study ...

Gender bias in paper citations is less common among younger scientists, but it still plays a part in making women’s research less visible. The study’s authors say that the imbalance is caused in part ...

A new study reveals that 'bioRxiv,' a preprint server for life science papers that have not yet undergone peer review, has transformed academic culture over the 13 years since its launch. On the 12th ...

AI writing tools are supercharging scientific productivity, with researchers posting up to 50% more papers after adopting them. The biggest beneficiaries are scientists who don’t speak English as a ...

We used to say data is the new oil. In commercial life sciences, context has become oxygen. AI can read millions of pages, extract structure from chaos and turn scattered trial data, clinical notes ...