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Q&A Niamh Brennan: 100 rules for publishing in top journals
18 July 2019
Gemma Conroy
A checklist for success.
The top 5 most talked-about studies of April
29 May 2019
Bec Crew
The fall of insects, the rise of zombie brains, and the catalysts of political unrest dominated the conversation around April's research offerings.
Power balance in clinical trials exposed
9 October 2018
Gemma Conroy
Industry funders routinely take charge of analysis and reporting.
Gender inequalities in science won’t self-correct: it’s time for action
5 September 2018
Sarah Hamylton et al.
"For twenty years people had been telling me how lucky I was to be in our field of research because 'things' were changing for young women. Twenty years later 'things' had not changed.
Furiously surfing the wave to scientific success
23 August 2018
Merlin Crossley
From the top of the wave the view is sweet, but it's all too easy to fall off.
The A to Z of paper authorship
21 August 2018
Gemma Conroy
It's bad news for Z but A is AOK for authors listed alphabetically.
Annual tables 2018: China and Japan lead in chemistry
19 July 2018
Gemma Conroy
Institutions in China and Japan dominate the chemistry top 10 in the Nature Index.
UQ retains position as Australia's top research university in 2015
28 October 2016
James Mitchell Crow
There's not much separating the top three Australian universities with the highest contributions to the index in 2015.
How Australian universities spent $4.5b on research in four years
27 October 2016
Bianca Nogrady
Assessing the research performance of universities is a difficult pursuit.