A biology journal that paid peer reviewers found that the approach cut the time to a first editorial decision by 85% and ...

Scientific research has never produced more information than it does today. Across nearly every discipline, researchers face ...

Are you a researcher who wants to be more confident doing peer reviews? Or an Early Career Scientist worried about doing your ...

The following types of contribution to Nature Portfolio journals are peer-reviewed: Articles, Letters, Brief Communications, Matters Arising, Technical Reports, Analysis, Resources, Reviews, ...

It is expected that in 2025, approximately three million articles will be indexed in Scopus and the Web of Science. If each undergoes peer review by two experts, and an additional 2 million articles ...

In 2023, an academic journal, the Annals of Operations Research, retracted an entire special issue because the peer review process for it was compromised. The case brought into sharp focus broader ...

More than half of the US peer reviewers for four major medical journals received industry payments between 2020-2022, new research shows. Altogether they received more than $64 million in general, non ...

The Trump administration has proposed what experts are calling “an unprecedented shift” in the way the federal government determines how to distribute grant funding.The most significant change ...

A recent report in Nature describes how the Trump administration is weakening peer review in favor of ideology-based grant ...

The NEJM editors understand the threat of the proposed federal grant review chang ...

The NEJM editors missed an opportunity in their criticism of the proposed grant-making rul ...