For the first time in a decade, the US university has lost its top position in the academic rankings, usurped by a Chinese institution.

Japan and South Korea are challenging Western peers in a shifting research landscape.

Funding worries and publishing trends loom large in the minds of scientists surveyed by Nature Index.

As submissions to AI conferences soar, authors’ own rankings — combined with peer review — could offer a powerful way to identify high-impact research.

Tools fail to identify most AI-generated peer-review reports, say researchers, who warn that the issue is only getting worse.

From lectures by avatars to entire qualifications, higher education centred around AI is just around the corner.

The subject area represents the next stage of the database’s evolution, and heralds other proposed changes to journal selection and article categorization.

The first Nature Index table on the field shows how research in the East is focused on industrial strategy.

Christos Petrou examines the rapid growth in publication volume coming from China, and how that is impacting the publishing industry.

One analysis suggests that 90% of studies in the field involve imaging humans.

Corporate research is a major part of the global science ecosystem, and all eyes are on the sector amid federal funding cuts in the United States.

The winners of Nature’s 2025 photo competition braved crashing waves and misty mountains to capture their science.

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Contingency plans are needed to shore up important information.

Move by US biomedical agency threatens thousands of projects on infectious diseases, cancer and more.

Contingency plans are needed to shore up important information.

These scientists are coming at cancer from all angles.

Some general journals, including Nature and Science, barely make the top 100, finds a Nature Index analysis of author gender. 

Emerging companies and an evolving market are changing the dynamics of cancer trials.

China takes pole position in cancer-related research in the Nature Index, with a massive jump in output.

The National Science Foundation is the latest US agency to be disrupted by Elon Musk’s DOGE.

Nature - Good ideas — and impactful tools — don’t just come from rich, Western nations, says Aleksandra Lazić, a social scientist in Serbia.

Researchers are experimenting with audio formats, and debating how to handle reviewer feedback.