Brevity is not the secret to scientific success. Researchers could garner more citations simply by making their papers longer, a study seems to imply. In an analysis of 30,027 peer-reviewed papers ...

The influence of academic papers is quantified by the number of citations, which is the number of times a paper is cited by other papers. The scientific journal Nature has pointed out that 'Japanese ...

Citation counts feel like scientific success, but the evidence shows they mislead more than they inform. Here’s what actually ...

Currently, one of the most pressing questions in science communication is what impact does participating in these kind of activities have on individual scientists. These impacts are difficult to ...

Writing a research paper is one thing. Getting the citations right? That can feel like another task altogether. But it doesn’t have to be hard. Once you know how to handle citations, the whole process ...

A fascinating new working paper finds that men are far more likely than women to back up their arguments with appeals to a higher authority: themselves. When an academic writes a research paper, it is ...

They’re not the kind of gangs that smuggle drugs and murder people. But people looking closely at the scientific literature have discovered that a small number of scientists are part of a different ...