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Researchers welcome the initiative, but say it doesn’t go far enough to capture the nuance of researcher productivity and impact.

The huge power of vaccines is being diluted by hesitancy, funding cuts and conflict.

Researchers are getting an unprecedented look at the human immune system through emerging techniques.

Vaccine research will fall behind if funding and public support continue to wane.

Applications for European research grants increased in 2025. Scientists say they’re feeling the competition.

A large language model scans abstracts and titles for signs that an article was produced by a 'paper-mill' company.

Confused by research evaluation and its potential impact on career progression? Here are some pointers as to how things work in different parts of the world.

Priorities for medical research depend on a country’s stage of development and the money available.

The country’s output in quality health research is going from strength to strength, but can it overcome questions about the integrity of its publishing practices?

The continent has many ongoing health studies across different countries, cultures and methodologies – this initiative aims to bring them together.

In the United States, more Black women die of cancer than white women. This study aims to understand that disparity.

A tool called Funding the Frontier visualizes all the downstream impacts of funding — and predicts which studies will have the biggest societal impact.

Health-care systems beyond the West are providing solutions and data that can widen our medical understanding.

Why Singapore is the perfect place for a long-term health study for Asian populations.

Institutions and publishers need to weigh context carefully and provide support when needed, says the author of a new study on the issue.

American and European institutions dominate the field.

We used machine-learning tools in an attempt to recreate the method for cutting funding, and then applied it to past US National Institutes of Health grants to reveal the broad-reaching consequences of such action.

Collaborative articles with South Korea, Australia and India are growing fast.

OpenAI’s GPT-5 hallucinates less than previous models do, but cutting hallucination completely might prove impossible.

System that searches for signs of bad practice could help to weed out questionable titles.