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‘Getting paid to review is justice’: journal pays peer reviewers in cryptocurrency
Nature, Published online: 11 December 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-04027-4 ResearchHub Journal launches latest attempt to compensate referees for their labour.…
Peer review by committee? New journal rethinks old model
The Stacks Journal is upending conventional peer review by introducing collaboration into the process.Credit: FangXiaNuo/Getty The peer-review system…
why it’s time to banish bad-mannered reviews
Even Cathy Foley, Australia’s chief scientist, has encountered unhelpful peer-review comments on her work.Credit: Fairfax Media Archives/Getty Electromagnetics…
Can AI be used to assess research quality?
Illustration: Neil Webb Do squirrel surgeons generate more citation impact? The question seems ludicrous, or perhaps the start…
The human costs of the research-assessment culture
The term ‘REF-able’ is now in common usage in UK universities. “Everyone’s constantly thinking of research in terms…
a researcher’s quest to keep his own work from being plagiarized
Bioinformatician Sam Payne stumbled on a manuscript in March that included figures that, he says, looked identical to…
the papers that most heavily cite retracted studies
Credit: Waldemar Thaut/Zoonar via Alamy In January, a review paper1 about ways to detect human illnesses by examining…
Cash for catching scientific errors
Malte Elson is blunt when it comes to science’s ability to self-correct. “The way we currently treat errors…
Who will make AlphaFold3 open source? Scientists race to crack AI model
An AlphaFold3 model of a kinase bound to chemical.Credit: Isomorphic Labs When Google DeepMind unveiled AlphaFold31 — the…
Pay researchers to spot errors in published papers
In 2023, Google awarded a total of US$10 million to researchers who found vulnerabilities in its products. Why?…