Megajournal editors ¡®swapped acceptances for citations¡¯ Analysis of highly prolific Plos One editors finds evidence for ¡®editor-author backscratching¡¯ By Jack Grove 16 October
One in five female students on top US campuses sexually assaulted Rate four times higher among women than men, and rising overall since initial 2015 survey By Paul Basken 15 October
French poverty scholar is second female Nobel economics laureate Esther Duflo ¨C the youngest ever economics Nobelist ¨C shares 2019 prize with Abhijit Banerjee and Michael Kremer By Jack Grove 14 October
California campuses to make abortion pills available Despite administrator concern, law enacted as matter of gender and financial fairness By Paul Basken 14 October
Citation diversity tied to medical research success US NIH finding raises hopes of focused funding, but concerns of bandwagon outlook By Paul Basken 11 October
Dartmouth¡¯s ¡®cluster hiring¡¯ move ¡®key to attracting top scholars¡¯ President says Ivy League institution is reaping reward of looking past academic silos and selecting staff on ability to tackle external challenge By Ellie Bothwell 10 October
Bad Religion¡¯s Greg Graffin: fellow musicians call me ¡®college boy¡¯ The Bad Religion frontman and Cornell University lecturer on combining songwriting and academic research and how universities should respond to far-right extremism By Ellie Bothwell 10 October
Topic choice harms black scientists seeking US research funding Finding illuminates US health agency¡¯s overall avoidance of human-centred research By Paul Basken 9 October
Academics ¡®lose a?week a?year¡¯ to formatting journal papers First analysis of economic cost of manuscript formatting highlights need for more flexibility from publishers, say authors By Jack Grove 9 October
Jail threat for education officials over student debt collection Trump administration defied court order to protect former for-profit students By Paul Basken 8 October
Academics ¡®exaggerate achievements¡¯ on CVs Researchers examined a sample of CVs and found that scholarly dishonesty extends to job applications By Colleen Flaherty for Inside Higher Ed 8 October
School student¡¯s physics paper retracted over ¡®self-plagiarism¡¯ Senior co-author says he ¡®forgot¡¯ to add reference to overlapping paper By Simon Baker 8 October
