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To gain insight into changes of scholarly journals’ recommendations, we conducted a systematic review of studies that analysed journals’ Instructions to Authors (ItAs). We summarised results of 153 studies, and meta-analysed how often ItAs addressed: 1) authorship, 2) conflicts of interest, 3) data sharing, 4) ethics approval, 5) funding disclosure, and 6) International Committee of Medical Journal Editors’ Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts. For each topic we found large between-study heterogeneity. Here, we show six factors that explained most of that heterogeneity: 1) time (addressing of topics generally increased over time), 2) country (large differences found between countries), 3) database indexation (large differences found between databases), 4) impact factor (topics were more often addressed in highest than in lowest impact factor journals), 5) discipline (topics were more often addressed in Health Sciences than in other disciplines), and 6) sub-discipline (topics were more often addressed in general than in sub-disciplinary journals). Publishers’ policies have the capability to increase transparency in scholarly literature. Malički and colleagues carried out a systematic review of over 150 studies that have examined scholarly journals’ recommendations. They find that requirements in terms of authorship, conflict of interests, data sharing, funding disclosure or ethics approval declaration vary greatly over time, among journals and across disciplines.

Study dispels myth that order of names in a paper’s author list dictates perception of success. Study dispels myth that order of names in a paper’s author list dictates perception of success.

An interactive Sex Inclusive Research Framework (SIRF) supports the evaluation of in vivo and ex vivo research proposals to address the risk of sex bias in preclinical research. The framework delivers a traffic light classification, indicating whether a proposal is appropriate, risky, or insufficient with regard to sex inclusion. This tool is designed for use by researchers, (animal) ethical review boards, and funders to generate a rigorous and reproducible assessment of sex inclusion at the proposal level, thus helping address and resolve the embedded sex bias in preclinical research. In preclinical research, there is a persistent sex bias where research is conducted with a single sex. Here, the authors present a Sex Inclusive Research Framework that provides a traffic light classification of research proposals to facilitate robust assessment and promote equitable sex inclusion

Researchers have tried a bunch of strategies to get more negative results into the literature. Nature asks whether they are working. Researchers have tried a bunch of strategies to get more negative results into the literature. Nature asks whether they are working.

Trainees in big research groups tend to go on to greater academic success than their small-group counterparts — but are more likely to quit academia altogether. Trainees in big research groups tend to go on to greater academic success than their small-group counterparts — but are more likely to quit academia altogether.

An analysis reveals the extent and impact of research that bridges disciplines.

The discovery of high-temperature superconductors, the determination of DNA's double-helix structure, the first observations that the expansion of the Universe is accelerating - all of these breakthroughs won Nobel prizes and international acclaim. Number 4 on the list describes the DNA-sequencing method5 that earned the late Frederick Sanger his share of the 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

The proportion of publications that send a field in a new direction has plummeted over the past half-century. The proportion of publications that send a field in a new direction has plummeted over the last half-century.

As funding dries up, US universities will need to reconsider traditional tenure requirements. As funding dries up, US universities will need to reconsider traditional tenure requirements.

Cost-of-living pressures, a dismal job market and stagnant US federal budgets are leaving lab leaders scrambling to balance the books. Cost-of-living pressures, a dismal job market and stagnant US federal budgets are leaving lab leaders scrambling to balance the books. Credit: William N. Zagotta Sharona Gordon at UW School of Medicine strike.