What makes good science? And how do Nature’seditors select papers to publish? The answers to both questions are many and varied. But they have one thing in common: neither is necessarily reflected in ...

Assessing the importance and quality of research is a complex and challenging task that is traditionally performed by a panel of experts familiar with the research field. Although the expert-based ...

Citation analysis has been routinely used for several decades to help assess patent quality and determine how patents impact the competition and affect the world at large. A greater number of forward ...