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    | Open Access

    Authors of scientific papers are generally discouraged from citing works that had no direct influence on their research. This paper uses simulations to show that such rhetorical citations may have underappreciated effects on the scientific community, such as deconcentrating attention away from already highly-cited papers.

    • Honglin Bao
    •  & Misha Teplitskiy

  • Article
    | Open Access

    Reproducibility is essential for the progress of research, yet achieving it remains elusive even in computational fields. Here, authors develop the rworkflows suite, making robust CI/CD workflows easy and freely accessible to all R package developers.

    • Brian M. Schilder
    • , Alan E. Murphy
    •  & Nathan G. Skene

  • Comment
    | Open Access

    More than a decade after the first demonstration of large-scale graphene synthesis by chemical vapor deposition, the commercialization of graphene products is limited not only by price, but also by consistency, reproducibility, and predictability. Here, the author discusses the reproducibility issues in the field and proposes possible solutions to improve the reliability of published results.

    • Peter Bøggild

  • Article
    | Open Access

    Publishers’ policies have the capability to increase transparency in scholarly literature. Malički and colleagues carried out a systematic review of over 150 studies that have examined scholarly journals’ recommendations. They find that requirements in terms of authorship, conflict of interests, data sharing, funding disclosure or ethics approval declaration vary greatly over time, among journals and across disciplines.

    • Mario Malički
    • , Ana Jerončić
    •  & Gerben ter Riet

  • Article
    | Open Access

    Here, the authors survey neuroscience publications from Africa over the past two decades, highlighting areas of active research, international networks, funding, and techniques used.

    • M. B. Maina
    • , U. Ahmad
    •  & T. Baden

  • Editorial
    | Open Access

    Nature Communications celebrates its 10,000th published article and introduces changes to improve our service to authors and readers

  • Editorial
    | Open Access

    The transition to fully open access publishing establishes Nature Communications as the flagship Nature-branded open access journal.

  • Editorial |

    With a year of publications under its belt, Nature Communications has established itself as an accommodating venue for the natural sciences.

  • Editorial |

    Nature Publishing Group launches its second multidisciplinary journal, 140 years after the first issue of Nature.

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