This report from the Lancet Commission on 21st century global threats to health lays out a foresight-driven, health-focused approach to identifying and prioritising major threats to global health over...

Background Early-career researchers face unique challenges in implementing effective and meaningful public and patient involvement (PPI) in their research. These barriers prevent early-career research...

Many health research organisations make strong commitments to involvement in their organisational strategies. This commitment is often operationalised via an involvement strategy, and evidenced by hig...

An era-defining mathematics claim raises questions over how AI tools credit earlier work.

Our recommendations for the anxious and perplexed By: Emily M. Bender, Alex Hanna and Decca Muldowney There’s a subculture within the “AI” industry that...

Using a suite of adversarial agents designed to test large language models in interactive conversations in a range of safety-related metrics, this study shows strong gaps between static performance an...

The Harbingers longitudinal study of early career researchers and their pathfinding scholarly communication attitudes and practices is a decade old and much of its findings have been published in thi...

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Direct engagement with patients and caregivers can transform basic research by uncovering underrecognized disease features and guiding generation of hypotheses. Integrating structured patient input in...

Background Research teams increasingly rely on patient engagement–where patients are engaged as partners in knowledge production–to improve the quality and relevance of health research. An ongoing cha...

Large Language Models (LLMs) are being considered for research evaluation, raising concerns about the introduction of AI bias. This study investigates whether ChatGPT research quality scores differ by...

Background/Objectives Physical inactivity causes a significant burden from cardiovascular disease worldwide. As sedentary behaviours become increasingly prevalent, there is a growing imperative to exp...

💡 JAMA Insights: #PhysicalActivity is an effective component of care for people with #chronic #medical conditions, and #clinician #communication can help support behavior change. This JAMA Insights ...

These names do not exist. Elena Vasquez and Marcus Chen have appeared as volcano experts, astronauts, thriller protagonists, podcast hosts, and academic co-authors across hundreds of independently pro...

The recent strain on peer review systems necessitates the publish-review-curate model, where the public dissemination of manuscripts is decoupled from formal peer review and later editorial processes....

This exploratory study investigated the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) tools on academic publishing for non-native English-speaking researchers. Through a mixed-methods convergent parallel de...

Deescalation, discontinuation, and deimplementation trials have emerged in multiple health care contexts in which interventions are suspected of being inappropriately used, applied beyond their eviden...

Objectives Public involvement in health research has been defined as research carried out ‘with’ or ‘by’ members of the public, rather than ‘to’, ‘about’, or ‘for’ them. We examined trends in patient ...

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Research assessment relies on expert evaluations, yet human judgement is noisy, and it is unclear whether differences in assessment arise primarily from differences in genuine research quality or from...

Preprints now disseminate a large share of biomedical research before peer review. Because they have not yet passed peer review, some scientists regard preprint claims as unverified or potentially unr...

Research and scholarship are shaped by article citations, which underpin the communication of ideas, assignment of credit, journal impact factors, and author career progression. Given their key influe...

A 2026 study found that when women and men use AI tools to create identical resumes, evaluators view the women as less competent, while crediting the men with initiative.

A biology journal that paid peer reviewers found that the approach cut the time to a first editorial decision by 85% and maintained high-quality reviews.

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Objective Citation skew refers to the unequal distribution of citations to articles within a journal. The study aimed to assess citation skew in sleep science journals and whether the journal impact f...

Humans evolved to pay close attention to danger, but today that instinct is being overwhelmed by an endless supply of bad news from around the world. Researchers say the answer isn’t to stop following...

Bot traffic has surpassed humans on the Internet. The winners in the next infrastructure cycle are the companies building trust rails for machines: agent identity, intent verification, API-native cont...

Indexed rheumatology journals demonstrate variable editorial policies of enforcing AI guidance. While the adoption of AI-related policies is mostly improving, a marked heterogeneity still exists, part...

Get a quick overview of how Nature Index works and what it measures. This guide explains key concepts, metrics, and data sources.

Women’s participation in science has risen sharply, but a Nature Index analysis finds that gender gaps in first and last authorship — markers of key scientific achievements — have barely shifted over ...

Research from ACE’s 2025 National Survey on AI and Arthritis Care will be presented at the European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology (EULAR) 2026 Congress in London, England.

This systematic overview and second-order meta-analysis shows that nature-based interventions effectively reduce anxiety and depression while enhancing relaxation and positive affect.

Generative AI has become a ubiquitous technology, and some writers are already using it in various ways to assist in the writing process. Many people have turned to AI to draft things like emails, sli...

The 2026 Future of Peer Review Report doesn't accept the crisis narrative at face value. Here's what the evidence actually shows.

This systematic overview and second-order meta-analysis shows that nature-based interventions effectively reduce anxiety and depression while enhancing relaxation and positive affect.

Abstract. In academic medicine, publication has often been treated as the endpoint of scholarship. In today’s crowded digital environment, however, publica

This Viewpoint explores whether the utility artificial intelligence (AI) tools for non-native English researchers may compromise the epistemic accuracy of scientific writing.

An AI-led analysis of publicly available peer-review reports links requests for major revisions with papers that end up having high impact.

Preprint servers and open science platforms have revolutionized the scientific process. A fundamental feature of these platforms is a lack of peer review—virtually anyone with an internet connection c...

Jonathan Zong and Frank Elavsky critique how AI-driven infrastructure changes obscure accessibility and reveal whose needs society chooses to prioritize.

Existing research primarily focuses on average sleep duration, overlooking dynamic sleep patterns in real-world settings. Here, the authors show that acute sleep rebound following sleep restriction is...

Large language models (LLMs) are known to generate plausible but false information across a wide range of contexts, yet the real-world magnitude and consequences of this hallucination problem remain p...

The number and proportion of individuals aged 60 years and older are steadily increasing. However, increased life expectancy is accompanied by a decli…