Scientific publications by women can take more time to review before being accepted, which can have implications for career ...

About one in five of the 100 life sciences articles listed in the past year in The Scientist’s “Hot Papers” column was written by scientists at just three research institutions— Harvard University, ...

Back in 2010, in a livestreamed press-conference, researchers from NASA Astrobiology Institute claimed to have discovered something that “will fundamentally change how we define life, and therefore ...

From ‘Envy, inequality and fertility’ to ‘Market size, trade and productivity’, using catchy three-part phrases in the titles of research papers can boost their citations, suggests a study. The study ...

Gender bias in paper citations is less common among younger scientists, but it still plays a part in making women’s research less visible. The study’s authors say that the imbalance is caused in part ...