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China ranked first in terms of the number of high-level international journal papers published and the number of citations ...

The wacky, the wild, and the weird. E ven if you weren’t someone who got excited about science class in school, now—as an ...

Over the past decade, Chinese researchers' international papers have been cited an average of 16.20 times per paper, ...

An international group of researchers says two decades of research have generated sufficient knowledge about the sources and effects of microplastics to allow world leaders to agree measures to ...

Many researchers think that science policy is a total snoozefest. They imagine policy workers churning out boring white ...

are policy choices—belongs in a newspaper or financial journal. It’s not a matter of science, any more than her views on abortions or guns or anything else are. I realize that my objections seem like ...

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Scientific institutions have traditionally flourished by recruiting ... These younger professors, administrators, and journal editors are more likely to champion the diversity, equity, and inclusion ...

A researcher working alone—apart from the world and the rest of the wider scientific community—is a classic yet misguided image. Research is, in reality, built on continuous exchange within ...

Nathan Ni holds a PhD from Queens University. He is a science editor for The Scientist’s Creative Services Team who strives to better understand and communicate the relationships between health and ...