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NewsThousands of published studies may contain images with incorrect copyright licences
Questions raised over copyright licence that covers images created using scientific illustration service Biorender
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NewsOpen letter from fraud sleuths raises concerns over research integrity at Scientific Reports
Springer Nature singled out over ‘seriously flawed’ peer review in journal
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News‘Stealth corrections’ uncovered in scientific journals, raising transparency concerns
Scientific integrity sleuths discovered 131 cases of publishers making unacknowledged changes
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NewsJapanese chemistry institute sues archival site for hosting discontinued journal
Case could set an important precedent if it reaches court
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NewsUS–China tensions appear to be damaging countries’ science, analysis finds
Ethnically Chinese students pursuing PhDs in the US dropped along with productivity of ethnically Chinese scientists
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NewsSpringer Nature staff squeezed by cost of living crisis go on strike over pay
Over 200 editors, journalists and production staff are taking industrial action over the next six weeks
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NewsNineteen journals shut down by Wiley following delisting and paper mill problems
Issues with manufactured manuscripts are a problem the whole publishing industry faces
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NewsExpressions of concern added to more than 60 articles in chemistry journal
Elsevier scrutinising further articles in the journal as it attempts to discover what happened
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NewsA key chemistry journal disappeared from the web. Others are at risk
Japanese scientific society suspends journal publication saying it has ‘completed its role’
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NewsRSC signs new open access scheme with 77 German institutions
New ‘Platinum model’ agreement means that the vast majority of papers in RSC journals from German researchers will be published OA
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NewsFighting fire with fire: AI can detect phony AI-generated chemistry papers
AI detector created can distinguish human-written chemistry papers from ChatGPT-authored ones with 98–100% accuracy
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NewsElsevier’s tiered pricing structure will see low-income countries pay least for submissions
Pilot programme will mean researchers from the poorest countries have article fees waived
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NewsChemistry journal’s reforestation scheme sees 2500 trees planted in first six weeks
Angewandte Chemie partnership aims to plant a tree for every manuscript submitted
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OpinionNavigating the literature torrent
It’s humanly impossible to filter and read everything worthwhile – let’s embrace assistance
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NewsChina displaces US as top publisher of high-quality natural science studies
Contribution of researchers in China to Nature Index journals is ‘rapidly gaining ground’, and in 2021 they led in physical sciences and chemistry
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NewsSanctioning of 50 journals raises concerns over special issues in ‘mega-journals’
Paper mills that produce papers to order are thought to be targeting some of the biggest journals
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NewsChemistry journals that request author photos and bios linked to lower citations for women
Citation effect is statistically significant but diminishes when other variables are taken into account
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NewsJournals to trial tool that automatically flags reproducibility and transparency issues in papers
Software aims to check a paper’s trustworthiness
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NewsRoyal Society of Chemistry will make all its journals open access
All RSC journals will be free to read within five years
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NewsAI picks out fake science
Textual analysis tool flags manuscripts that may have come from paper mills