A year ago now, we launched a trial to test the use of cloud-container platforms for peer review and publication of code at several Nature journals. The trial phase of this initiative is now officially over, and we would like to share the experience and outcomes, and provide an overview of what comes next. Read more
Hopes are high that CRISPR–Cas9 could one day be used in people to correct mutations that cause disease. 2017 witnessed incredible advances in the gene editing technology – we present a synopsis of the 10 most popular CRISPR papers published in Nature Research journals from the past year, measured by their Altmetric Attention Score. Read more
24 of 2017’s top papers in the Altmetric Top 100 were published in Nature Research journals: Nature, Nature Communications, Nature Neuroscience, Nature Climate Change, Nature Ecology & Evolution, Nature Geoscience, and Scientific Reports.(24/100 is in fact the same number as last year.) … Read more
This year, we mark 200 years since James Parkinson published his famous monograph, An Essay on the Shaking Palsy. In that time, we have reached many key milestones in science that have dramatically improved the lives of the ten million people worldwide who live with Parkinson’s. Yet we still have nothing to slow the disease and nothing to stop it. Read more
Macmillan Science and Education, the parent group of Nature Publishing Group, has today announced an initiative that will make research articles on nature.com widely available to read and share. Read more
Do you know what good research looks like? One of the great successes of research management in leading research economies is that it is usually equitable and fair in judgements about who gets the jobs, who gets the grants and who gets the recognition. That is a powerful incentive to the people who deliver research outcomes of benefit to society and the economy. Lose their confidence and enthusiasm and you have lost everything. Read more
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