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Frequent collaborators are less likely to produce replicable results
20 September 2019
Gemma Conroy
Stick with who you don't know.
Research returnees boost China’s scientific impact
18 September 2019
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
An unprecedented rise to world-class status.
How to run a successful citizen science project
9 August 2019
Gemma Conroy
Keeping participants involved can go a long way.
Top 5 corporate–academic collaborations in biomedical sciences
6 August 2019
Bec Crew
This is what success looks like.
Scientists collaborate more when disaster strikes
1 August 2019
Gemma Conroy
Teaming up when things fall apart.
Do the best academics fly more?
17 July 2019
Seth Wynes
As universities face increasing demands to reduce greenhouse emissions, they should look for ways to manage academic travel more efficiently.
The top 10 countries in research collaboration
12 July 2019
Bec Crew
This interactive visualization reveals the tightest pairs.
Japan's global connectors boost scientific research collaboration
24 March 2019
Catherine Armitage, David McNeill & Smriti Mallapaty
Six scientists whose transformative work reaches across borders.
Japanese universities test collaboration
21 March 2019
David McNeill
Insular institutions seek ways to better accommodate international research partners.
China's Belt and Road Initiative finds new research partners in Europe
11 January 2019
Marijk van der Wende & Robert Tijssen
Smaller member states are the beneficiaries of China's global trade and diplomacy project.
Science in North Korea: How easing the nuclear stand-off might bolster research
2 May 2018
Richard Van Noorden
The isolated nation publishes fewer than 100 scholarly articles a year — but as political tensions thaw, researchers hope for greater collaboration.
Japan bets on science diplomacy
16 April 2018
Daniel Hurst
International collaborations are rising, but not enough to put Japan on the global researcher circuit.
International collaborations growing fast
19 January 2018
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
More countries are taking part in cross-border partnerships, but inequality remains.
Scientists tainted by misconduct of former collaborators
21 December 2017
Dyani Lewis
The stigma has a punitive effect on citations for prior collaborators of fraudulent researchers.
Industry links boost research output
18 December 2017
Neil Savage
The top academic and corporate partners in the Nature Index
8 December 2017
Mark Zastrow
Help wanted: Industry seeks science alliances
7 December 2017
Katharine Gammon
Local, not global, links boost productivity
4 December 2017
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
There’s no substitute for physical proximity, say researchers.
Global research gaps thwart Ebola response
21 November 2017
Elie Dolgin
The lack of research institutes with links to Africa has scientists worried about the next Ebola outbreak.
Europe opens arms to post-Brexit research migrants
8 November 2017
Anna Petherick
For centuries a hub of ideas and trade, London is embracing ambitious developments to boost research and local connections, despite the uncertainty caused by Brexit.
Senior scholars stick together
6 November 2017
Hepeng Jia
Encouraging palaeontologists to stop hiding the bones
23 August 2017
Ivy Shih
New preprint services could bring niche scientific communities into the open.
Japan's strategy for growth highlights innovation
15 August 2017
Ichiko Fuyuno
Collaboration with companies will become more important in the government’s science and technology strategies.
Michael Sporn: A legacy of greater knowledge
10 August 2017
Elie Dolgin
For the love of discovery, a biochemist freely shared the research which laid the groundwork for widely-used drugs.
One small step in the thawing of China-US space relations
28 July 2017
Hepeng Jia
A Beijing DNA experiment boards the International Space Station.
UK-Indonesia partnership grows out of a conversation
27 July 2017
Dyna Rochmyaningsih
An encounter between two visiting social scientists at the University of Oxford was the catalyst for a unique partnership.
Charting China's rising dominance in science
21 July 2017
Nicky Phillips
The country's research contribution is continuing to overtake other nations.
The value of nostalgia in a land of upheaval
30 June 2017
Flynn Murphy
Psychology is an increasingly relevant discipline as the destabilizing effects of rapid social change take hold in China.
Better measures needed for research cooperation
23 June 2017
Anthea Lacchia
Researchers wrestle with a measure of collaboration increasingly used to assess the impact of their work.
Far-flung and thriving: prime time for Okinawa’s grand experiment
16 May 2017
Tim Hornyak
Japan's gambit to globalize its scientific research is paying dividends.
Japan's plan to cultivate more entrepreneurial scientists
10 May 2017
Ian Munroe
Although government efforts to encourage innovation face significant obstacles.
8 things scientists want from a collaboration
2 May 2017
Ivy Shih
New report identifies what can make or break a good international collaboration.
Historic co-authorships speed up editor handling times
24 April 2017
Anthea Lacchia
Journal editors tend to accept manuscripts written by prior collaborators more quickly.
How Todai is encouraging research spinoffs
11 April 2017
Ian Munroe
It was the first Japanese university to establish a venture capital firm.
US-Uganda partnership uncovers potential culprit in mysterious nodding syndrome
4 April 2017
Linda Nordling
International team publish landmark paper on debilitating form of childhood epilepsy.
UK-India research collaborations threatened by decline in student enrolments
15 March 2017
Anthea Lacchia
Years of groundwork underpins rise in research collaborations.
US supercomputer needs more people power
22 February 2017
Ivy Shih
A large computing network that has helped design cancer drug candidates and search for extra-terrestrial life is struggling to maintain its volunteer network.
Turbulent times for scientists with the 'wrong' papers
20 February 2017
Flynn Murphy
As Donald Trump’s bid to reinstate his travel ban failed last week, three Iranian scientists speak of their fears amid the uncertainty.
Research partnership improves life for vulnerable women
9 February 2017
Linda Nordling
A social welfare programme for women at risk of HIV has built trust between this vulnerable group and scientists seeking new treatments and a cure.
How Chinese and US researchers recreated a 5000-year-old beer recipe
13 January 2017
Yanli Wang
A discovery in an ancient Chinese pot would reveal one of the oldest records of beer production.
My corporate experiment - a scientist learns from business
16 December 2016
Sidonia Eckle
Academics can learn a lot from the corporate world.
Science has a problem giving credit where it’s due
12 December 2016
Smriti Mallapaty
Apportioning author credit in large collaborations is as problematic as the Nobel Prize’s rule of three.
The team of scientists finding new ways to develop drugs for kids with rare cancers
2 December 2016
Neil Savage
An encounter helped kick-start the development of new cancer drugs.
Does proximity play a role in science collaborations?
30 November 2016
Neil Savage
Proximity is just one factor driving the high number of collaborations between top performing institutes in the same city.
Partnerships between US and Chinese scientists surge
18 November 2016
Sujata Gupta
New data reveals universities in Tokyo are highly connected
17 November 2016
Tim Hornyak
The Japanese capital is a hub of local research collaborations.
Collaboration trumps competition in city of love
17 November 2016
Barbara Casassus
Paris excels in intra-city collaborations but needs to look beyond its borders to increase research performance.
Chinese and US researchers team up to study forests in a warming world
15 November 2016
Sujata Gupta
A new program is encouraging climate change research partnerships between two research powerhouses.
International research collaborations on the rise
15 November 2016
Ivy Shih
Growth in research partnerships was most pronounced in the life sciences.
New Zealand's 'Lord of the Rings' effect a boon for science
10 November 2016
Linda Vergnani
How to take a great idea beyond the lab
20 September 2016
Richard Middlemiss
A Scottish scientist reflects on how his team built the world's smallest gravity detector
UN brokers partnerships to tackle tropical diseases
13 September 2016
Annabel McGilvray
A UN agency is connecting big pharma with research groups to accelerate development of treatments for diseases such as malaria.
Rising stars: Baylor, the best medicine
25 July 2016
James Mitchell Crow, Mark Zastrow
BCM’s contribution to high-quality research rose 39% from 2012 to 2015.
How Brexit may impact Britain's top research universities
30 June 2016
Nicky Phillips
Some UK universities may be affected more than others.
China's diaspora key to science collaborations
23 June 2016
Peng Tian
Links formed by mainland China's large scientific diaspora and its increasing output of high-quality research make it an emerging centre of international collaboration.
Shared knowledge is key to a kingdom
6 June 2016
Nadia El-Awady
International collaboration is yielding major breakthroughs and an increase in quality output.
Canadian researchers do more with less
2 June 2016
Brian Owens
Growing participation in large international research projects may explain the drop in Canada's index performance.
Paris, a tight-knit research community
26 May 2016
Nicky Phillips
Proximity can be a strong factor in research partnerships
What does industry contribute to the world's best research?
19 May 2016
Nicky Phillips
The Nature Index tracks corporations who publish in top journals.
How the world's largest mosquito genome project was almost derailed
12 May 2016
Sarah O’Meara
A collaborative study included in the Nature Index required the coordinated efforts of more than 130 researchers from around the world.
An unlikely alliance
14 April 2016
Peng Tian
More than 20 researchers at China's genomics giant BGI got their PhD in Denmark.
Brazil's Russian connection
5 April 2016
Linda Nordling
A handful of influential professors are behind research partnerships between Russia and Brazil.
How a disparate team found the world's oldest stone tools
1 April 2016
Mark Zastrow
The incredible story behind a remarkable discovery.
"The trend transforming science" - Jonathan Adams
16 March 2016
Jonathan Adams and Tamar Loach
The small but focused snapshot of research afforded by the Nature Index helps fine-tune analysis of global scientific collaboration, say Jonathan Adams and Tamar Loach.
