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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
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News Feature |
Unethical studies on Chinese minority groups are being retracted — but not fast enough, critics say
Campaigners who want scrutiny of biometrics research on Uyghurs, Tibetans and other groups are frustrated by slow progress.
- Dyani Lewis
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Career Feature |
The open-science movement for sharing laboratory materials gains momentum
Many researchers support open science, but how can they translate this view into behaviours to boost sharing?
- Andy Tay
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News |
Science’s fake-paper problem: high-profile effort will tackle paper mills
EXCLUSIVE: Poor-quality studies are polluting the literature — a group will study the businesses that produce them to stem the flow of bogus research.
- Katharine Sanderson
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What counts as plagiarism? Harvard president’s resignation sparks debate
Allegations against Claudine Gay have left researchers arguing over academic standards and practices.
- Jeff Tollefson
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Nature Index |
Self-citations in around a dozen countries are unusually high
Researchers behind the analysis think that policy incentives in these places are to blame.
- Dalmeet Singh Chawla
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Nature Podcast |
The science stories you missed over the holiday period
We highlight some of the Nature Briefing’s stories from the end of 2023, including a polar bear fur-inspired sweater, efforts to open OSIRIS-REx’s sample canister, and a dinosaur’s last dinner.
- Benjamin Thompson
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Nature Podcast |
Science in 2024: what to expect this year
AI, Moon missions, weaponized mosquitoes and superfast supercomputers — we’ll run through what to look out for in the new year.
- Noah Baker
- & Miryam Naddaf
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Career Feature |
How sharing your science in an opinion piece can boost your career
Don’t rely solely on academic papers to raise your professional profile. General readers are interested in your opinions, too.
- Jane Palmer
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News |
Citations show gender bias — and the reasons are surprising
Gender bias in paper citations is less common among younger scientists, but it still plays a part in making women’s research less visible.
- Anil Oza
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Nature Index |
How research managers are using AI to get ahead
For those at the interface of funding organizations and the scientific community, platforms such as ChatGPT can tackle menial tasks and free up time for relationship-building work such as coaching and mentoring.
- Linda Nordling
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Editorial |
End the glaring inequity in international science collaborations
The world’s natural-science research ecosystem remains focused on the priorities of high-income countries. Funders, publishers and scholarly databases can do more to help to rebalance that.
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Editorial |
From Einstein to AI: how 100 years have shaped science
Looking back a century reveals how much the research landscape has changed — and how unclear the consequences of scientific innovation can be.
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News |
Has your research influenced policy? Use this free tool to check
Sage Policy Profiles scans a database of 10 million documents to show researchers where their papers have been cited.
- Dalmeet Singh Chawla
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Nature Index |
North–south country collaborations reveal untapped potential
The global north still dominates such partnerships in the Nature Index.
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Nature Index |
How to level the global publishing playing field
Alternative strategies could shift a system that is stacked against the global south.
- Tom Kariuki
- & Elizabeth Marincola
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Spotlight |
How high-impact papers from Indian researchers are shaping science
Studies to tackle air quality in Delhi and solve the mystery of an emerging pathogen are among those helping to raise the profile of Indian science.
- Michael Eisenstein
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News Feature |
Superconductivity debunker: this physicist exposed flaws in a blockbuster claim
James Hamlin found problems with the work of controversial physicist Ranga Dias.
- Dan Garisto
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News |
More than 10,000 research papers were retracted in 2023 — a new record
The number of articles being retracted rose sharply this year. Integrity experts say that this is only the tip of the iceberg.
- Richard Van Noorden
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News |
Surge in number of ‘extremely productive’ authors concerns scientists
Some researchers publish a new paper every five days, on average. Data trackers suspect not all their manuscripts were produced through honest labour.
- Gemma Conroy
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Career Column |
How to slay zombie research projects and move on
Find time to kill tasks that aren’t progressing, and beware taking on ones with unrealistic deadlines or deliverables.
- A. R. Siders
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- & Rebecca L. Nelson
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News Feature |
Is AI leading to a reproducibility crisis in science?
Scientists worry that ill-informed use of artificial intelligence is driving a deluge of unreliable or useless research.
- Philip Ball
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Career Q&A |
Why I launched Malaysia’s first scientific newspaper
Mahaletchumy Arujanan shares how she set up The Petri Dish, Malaysia’s first scientific newspaper, which is aimed at the general public.
- Lia Paola Zambetti
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News |
Stunning stem cells and Starlink trails — November’s best science images
The month’s sharpest science shots, selected by Nature’s photo team.
- Emma Stoye
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Nature Careers Podcast |
How to create compelling scientific data visualizations
Start with pen and paper, keep things simple, do your coding at the end, say data visualization specialists.
- Julie Gould
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Nature Index |
Why is China’s high-quality research footprint becoming more introverted?
Data from the Nature Index suggest China-based authors are increasingly publishing without international colleagues.
- Brian Owens
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News |
A 27,000-year-old pyramid? Controversy hits an extraordinary archaeological claim
The massive buried structures at Gunung Padang in Indonesia would be much older than Egypt’s great pyramids — if they’re even human constructions at all.
- Dyani Lewis
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News |
Microbiologist who was harassed during COVID pandemic sues university
At the heart of a New Zealand court case is the extent to which talking to the public constitutes an academic’s duty to society.
- Bianca Nogrady
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Correspondence |
Authors reply to questionable publicity
- Patrick T. Brown
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News Feature |
Who should pay for open-access publishing? APC alternatives emerge
Article-processing charges levied by publishers on authors have become an integral — and sometimes unpopular — part of the open-access revolution. Other options are being explored.
- Katharine Sanderson
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News |
AI writes summaries of preprints in bioRxiv trial
Large language model creates synopses of papers aimed at various reading levels to help scientists sift through the literature.
- Ewen Callaway
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News |
What reproducibility crisis? New research protocol yields ultra-high replication rate
Four groups in the field of experimental psychology successfully replicate each other’s work by following best practices.
- David Adam
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Nature Index |
Fastest-rising nations look to solidify research gains
India–US partnerships heat up, as China contemplates rebuilding links with the West.
- Bec Crew
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Nature Index |
China must draw on internal research strength
The domestic pool of talent is deep, but international links are still crucial for maintaining the country’s role in the search for global solutions.
- Cong Cao
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Nature Index |
Four science stars on the fast-track to impact
With the world at their feet, these prolific young researchers are making their mark.
- Sandy Ong
- & Chris Woolston
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News |
Nature retracts controversial superconductivity paper by embattled physicist
This is the third high-profile retraction for Ranga Dias. Researchers worry the controversy is damaging the field’s reputation.
- Davide Castelvecchi
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News |
How big is science’s fake-paper problem?
An unpublished analysis suggests that there are hundreds of thousands of bogus ‘paper-mill’ articles lurking in the literature.
- Richard Van Noorden
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News |
‘ChatGPT detector’ catches AI-generated papers with unprecedented accuracy
Tool based on machine learning uses features of writing style to distinguish between human and AI authors.
- McKenzie Prillaman
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News |
Don’t overlook race and ethnicity: new guidelines urge change for psychology research
Recommendations aimed at authors, reviewers and editors establish standards for addressing issues that have often gotten short shrift.
- Heidi Ledford