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Correspondence |
WHO principles speed up ethical sharing of pathogen genomic data
- Vasee Moorthy
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News |
Carbon emissions hit new high: warning from COP27
Fresh data released at the climate summit show global carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels are soaring despite energy crisis.
- Jeff Tollefson
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World View |
Net-zero plans exclude Africa
Energy-transition plans leave out African data, models and expertise, excluding more than one billion people on the continent.
- Rose M. Mutiso
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World View |
Cancer research needs better databases
Progress on one of the world’s biggest killers will stall without big registries linking scattered records.
- T. S. Karin Eisinger-Mathason
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Dozens of papers co-authored by Nobel laureate raise concerns
Concerns about image integrity have so far led to 17 retractions, corrections or expressions of concern for papers co-authored by geneticist Gregg Semenza.
- Holly Else
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Editorial |
Nature thanks the guest editors of our racism in science special issue
This special issue is part of Nature’s commitment to change. We thank our inspiring guest editors for helping us to make it happen.
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Nature Index |
Should AI have a role in assessing research quality?
A UK study aims to find out whether artificial intelligence could ease the peer-review process for the country’s Research Excellence Framework.
- Dalmeet Singh Chawla
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Nature Index |
A guide to the Nature Index
A description of the terminology and methodology used in this supplement, and a guide to the functionality that is available free online at natureindex.com.
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Correspondence |
Data sharing: more science unions must act
- Xiaogang Ma
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Editorial |
Studies linking diet with health must get a whole lot better
A research-rating system has identified gaps in studies that assess the connection between diet and various health risks.
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Correspondence |
Climate data need shared and open governance
- Marco Schletz
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Technology Feature |
Taking the pain out of data sharing
Despite agreeing to make raw data available, some authors fail to comply. The right strategies and platforms can ease the task.
- Matthew Hutson
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Editorial |
How Nature contributed to science’s discriminatory legacy
We want to acknowledge — and learn from — our history.
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Career Column |
It takes a laboratory to avoid data loss
Lab members are typically in charge of their own data and notes. But institutional memory is better served if the team works together, say Stephen McInturff and Victor Adenis.
- Stephen McInturff
- & Victor Adenis
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News |
Five-year campaign breaks science’s citation paywall
Reference lists for more than 60 million journal studies in Crossref are now free to view and reuse.
- Dalmeet Singh Chawla
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Editorial |
Citation data are now open, but that’s far from enough
The reference lists of more than 60 million papers on the linking site Crossref are now openly available. That is is welcome — but further steps must follow.
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News Feature |
The fraught quest to account for sex in biology research
Funders and publishers are increasingly asking researchers to account for the role of sex in experiments — a requirement that’s contentious and hard to get right.
- Emily Willingham
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Career Feature |
Community science draws on the power of the crowd
Participatory-science projects bring amateurs and experts together to collect and crunch data, and even design research.
- Amber Dance
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World View |
Register animal-tracking tags to boost conservation
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the value of pooling animal-tracking data — a global tag registry would facilitate data discovery and collaboration.
- Christian Rutz
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Nature Index |
A guide to the Nature Index
A description of the terminology and methodology used in this supplement, and a guide to the functionality that is available free online at natureindex.com.
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World View |
Without appropriate metadata, data-sharing mandates are pointless
Funders and investigators must demand appropriate metadata standards to take data from foul to FAIR.
- Mark A. Musen
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Nature Index |
A guide to the Nature Index
A description of the terminology and methodology used in this supplement, and a guide to the functionality that is available free online at natureindex.com.
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News |
How a scandal in spider biology upended researchers’ lives
Although Jonathan Pruitt, the researcher at the centre of a retractions scandal, has resigned, former lab members and collaborators continue dealing with the fallout.
- Max Kozlov
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World View |
There’s a simple fix for skewed pandemic estimates
Demographers must work together so that officials can produce numbers all can trust.
- Elizabeth Wrigley-Field
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News |
Major chemical database investigates hundreds of suspicious crystal structures
An unprecedented number of crystallography database entries are undergoing extra checks amid fears that they are based on fabricated data.
- Holly Else
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Technology Feature |
Six tips for better spreadsheets
Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets are powerful and widely used. But there’s a right way and a wrong way to use them, data scientists say.
- Jeffrey M. Perkel
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World View |
Stop misusing data when hiring academics
Social-media impact, university rankings and online-aggregator metrics are broken — better ways to assess researchers are needed.
- Cameron Neylon
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News Feature |
Exclusive: investigators found plagiarism and data falsification in work from prominent cancer lab
Ohio State University investigations identified misconduct by two scientists in lab of high-profile cancer researcher Carlo Croce. The university has cleared Croce of misconduct, but disciplined him over management problems.
- Richard Van Noorden
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Comment |
Africa: regulate surveillance technologies and personal data
CCTV cameras and spyware are proliferating in the continent without checks and balances. Governments must legislate locally to prevent civil-rights abuses.
- Bulelani Jili
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Technology Feature |
Need web data? Here’s how to harvest them
Webscraping is a useful tool for gathering data from public websites, but researchers must develop some fundamental software skills to use it.
- Michael Eisenstein
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News |
Cancer’s clock, data hoarding — the week in infographics
Nature highlights three key graphics from the week in science and research.
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‘Ignored and not appreciated’: Women’s research contributions often go unrecognized
Data reveal that to earn credit on scientific articles, women need to work harder than men.
- Holly Else
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World View |
The human microbiome: there is much left to do
It’s time to make the survey of humanity’s ‘second genome’ more complete.
- Ruth Ley
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Editorial |
Research must do no harm: new guidance addresses all studies relating to people
Springer Nature editors urge consideration of the potential harms of all research relating to human populations, not just that directly involving human participants.
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How science could aid the US quest for environmental justice
Research tools to identify and help protect disadvantaged communities have been in the works for years. Scientists and activists want them put into action.
- Jeff Tollefson
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News |
Women more likely to win awards that are not named after men
An analysis finds that women have a better chance of winning awards not named after a person than of winning prizes named after a man.
- Elizabeth Gibney
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Correspondence |
Frustration over Chinese academic database charges
- Hong-Wei Xiao
- , Jun Wang
- & Xiao-Ming Fang
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Editorial |
Nature journals raise the bar on sex and gender reporting in research
Authors will be prompted to provide details on how sex and gender were considered in study design.
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News Feature |
The pandemic’s true health cost: how much of our lives has COVID stolen?
Researchers are trying to calculate how many years have been lost to disability and death.
- Holly Else
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Comment |
Stop squandering data: make units of measurement machine-readable
In the age of big data, it is time to ensure that units are routinely documented for easy, unambiguous exchange of information.
- Robert Hanisch
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Technology Feature |
Unlocking the potential of health data to help research and treatments
Medical records can be tricky to access because of confidentiality and variability, but data-sharing efforts are helping to overcome these hurdles — without compromising patient privacy.
- Jyoti Madhusoodanan
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Editorial |
Time to recognize authorship of open data
The open data revolution won’t happen unless the research system values the sharing of data as much as authorship on papers.
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News |
Your brain expands and shrinks over time — these charts show how
Based on more than 120,000 brain scans, the charts are still preliminary. But researchers hope they could one day be used as a routine clinical tool by physicians.
- Max Kozlov
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Technology Feature |
In pursuit of data immortality
Data sharing can save important scientific work from extinction, but only if researchers take care to ensure that resources are easy to find and reuse.
- Michael Eisenstein
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News Feature |
A more-inclusive genome project aims to capture all of human diversity
Researchers are building a human ‘pangenome’ that would represent the entirety of human genetic variation. But not everyone is ready to sign on.
- Roxanne Khamsi
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Nature Index |
A guide to the Nature Index
A description of the terminology and methodology used in this supplement, and a guide to the functionality that is available free online at natureindex.com.