(11 Jun 2025) China has extended its lead in research output, according to data released in the latest Nature Index Research Leaders(data refers to full year 2024 data only – see notes to editors). The country’s Share, the Nature Index’s key metric of author contribution to high-quality research, reached 32,122, a 17% increase on 2023, with the region now…
(15 May 2025) Google Scholar launched in November 2004 with the goal of making it easier to access scientific knowledge. But did it live up to this aim or simply create new problems? Kyriakos Drivas shows that contrary to early concerns, the platform has made older papers more discoverable and helped knowledge spread more efficiently across academic…
(11 Jun 2025) AI refusal can refer to a spectrum of approaches to AI, whether that’s refusing to use AI tools entirely, refusing the use of AI as much as possible, refusing to prioritize the use of AI, refusing to accept either boosterism or doomer narratives, refusing to accept the idea that AI is inevitable,…