(23 Sept 2025) If you wanted to get a paper published in Science from 2015 to 2020, your odds were 70% lower if you were in China than in the United States. But being at an elite institution anywhere in the world may have given you an edge. Those are two findings from a rare study of internal…
(4 Jan 2024) In recent years, the research community has become increasingly concerned with issues involving the manipulation of images in scientific papers. Some of these alterations—involving images from experimental techniques such as microscopy, flow cytometry, and western blots—are inadvertent and may not change the conclusions of papers. But in rare cases, some are done…
(26 Oct 2022) AAAS collected 422 responses from U.S. researchers between March and September 2022 to better understand how open access publishing trends and costs are affecting the scientific enterprise and received survey responses from librarians and administrators representing 89 institutions. According to the survey findings, 63 percent of researchers had paid an APC at…
(11 Oct 2022) The publisher of the prestigious journal Science will soon allow the authors of its research papers to make public an almost-final version of their manuscript in a repository of their choice immediately on publication, without paying any fees. This approach differs to that taken by the publishers of similarly high-impact journals Cell and Nature, which charge most authors…
(30 Sep 2021) The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), publisher of the Science family of journals, and Morressier, the virtual conference provider and platform for early-stage research, today announced the launch of the Science Partner Conference (SPC) program. The new program accompanies AAAS’ Science Partner Journal (SPJ) program and provides carefully selected societies with a…
(15 Jan 2021) In a step towards open access, the publisher of Science will start allowing some authors publishing in its high-profile subscription journals to share their accepted manuscripts openly online under liberal terms that mean anyone could reproduce or redistribute the work. The change ensures that scientists with grants from some funding agencies that insist on…
(13 Aug 2019) Today, as part of continued efforts to foster transparency and reproducibility in life science research, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the nonprofit publisher of the Science family of journals, announces a four-year collaboration with the publisher Bio-protocol. The launch of the agreement between AAAS and Bio-protocol comes amid a growing demand for sharing experimental…
(19 February 2019) The world’s biggest scientific society is creating a helpline for policymakers as researchers worldwide take steps to address what they are seeing more clearly in the Trump era as glaring deficits of academic expertise in governmental decision-making. The American Association for the Advancement of Science’s move to create the hotline for science-based questions…
(16 May 2018) Leaders of the China Association for Science and Technology and counterparts at the American Association for the Advancement of Science explored on Wednesday ways to build on a longstanding collaboration between the two scientific organizations through science communication and education partnerships. During a meeting at AAAS headquarters in Washington, D.C., six CAST…
(11 September 2017) Hindawi today announced the signing of a publishing partnership agreement with the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Hindawi will support AAAS by providing post-acceptance publishing services for AAAS’s new Science Partner Journal publishing program. AAAS anticipates its first partner journal will launch in early 2018. The Science Partner Journals…