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Called Real Influence Researchers from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), Universidad de León (ULE) and São Paulo State University (UNESP) in Brazil have developed an indicator which is more robust, clear and fair than 'impact factor', which has been widely used for decades to evaluate academic and scientific journals.

A study conducted in the field of ophthalmology confirms a trend observed in all scientific journals The retraction of articles by editors of scientific journals - the signal that a previously published article has significant enough flaws to be deemed invalid - has risen sharply over the past decade, peaking in 2023 with over 10,000 articles retracted.

Emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) from forest fires have risen by 60% globally since 2001 and almost tripled in parts of the northern boreal forests, according to a new study, co-authored by VU climate scientist Sander Veraverbeke. The study, led by the University of East Anglia, was published in Science .

For undergraduate Danielle Oste, a student research project led to the discovery of phantom cell lines, throwing into question the legitimacy of hundreds of academic cancer research papers. From an early age, curiosity and a hunger for discovery fuelled the passion of animal science student Danielle Oste, a self-proclaimed 'maths and science girl', whose love of learning has been a constant motivation.

A Durham physicist is part of an international research team that has discovered the biggest pair of black hole jets ever seen in space, spanning 23 million light-years in total length. The jets' size is equivalent to lining up 140 Milky Way galaxies back-to-back. The research was led by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and involved scientists at multiple universities, including Dr Roland Timmerman of our Department of Physics.

In the EU project OntoTrans, coordinated by TU Wien, researchers have designed an application that contributes to the development of better materials. Here, semantic technologies play a central role. There are more than 7,000 languages in the world. However, for two people to be able to communicate with each other, they must speak the same language.

A team of Swiss and Greek archaeologists has completed the fourth season of excavations on the wreck of Antikythera, uncovering part of the ship's hull. The 2024 expedition to the Antikythera wreck, carried out from 17 May to 20 June 2024, has led to a breakthrough in the 2021-2025 research program orchestrated by the Swiss School of Archaeology in Greece (ESAG) and supervised by the Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports.

Supernova explosions from the formation history of these families also left traces on Earth An international team of astronomers led by the University of Vienna has deciphered the formation history of young star clusters, some of which we can see with the naked eye at night. The team, led by Cameren Swiggum and João Alves from the University of Vienna and Robert Benjamin from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, reports that most nearby young star clusters belong to only three families, which originate from very massive star-forming regions.

While Google has long been synonymous with search, people are increasingly seeking information directly through video platforms such as YouTube. Videos can be dense with information: text, audio, and image after image. Yet each of these layers presents a potential source of error or deceit. And when people search for videos directly on a site like YouTube, sussing out which videos are credible sources can be tricky.

A high-profile study made headlines in 2023 stating that the scientific and innovation system is producing less and less completely new knowledge. Researchers at the University of Basel are now refuting this claim, at least for patents: It is based on a measurement error. The discovery of mRNA in the 1960s was groundbreaking.

A study published yesterday by Swiss TPH and partners in Lao PDR has revealed high rates of Steatotic Liver Disease in a rural region where liver fluke infections and diabetes are prevalent. Surprisingly, an infection with parasitic worms was inversely associated with the prevalence of Steatotic Liver Disease.

A galaxy that suddenly stopped forming new stars more than 13 billion years ago has been observed by astronomers. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, an international team of astronomers led by the University of Cambridge have spotted a 'dead' galaxy when the universe was just 700 million years old, the oldest such galaxy ever observed.

The visibility of your research is in your own hands. Michaela Zottler from the TU Graz library provides valuable tips. Why is the visibility of research performances important? The impact of research performance is primarily determined by the quality of the research, but also by whether and how research achievements and the researcher are perceived.

Unique photos from Wroclaw were taken secretly and at great risk by a persecuted Jew The international research network "#LastSeen. Images of Nazi Deportations" presents previously unknown photos of persecuted Jews during the Nazi era. The original photos, in which Breslau residents can be seen shortly before deportation, were recently found in the archives of the Saxon Association of Jewish Communities in Dresden and jointly researched.