A look at the publications, policies, and regulations that have got researchers talking across the field.

Anja Harrison, Co-Founder and CEO of The Collaborative Library, talks to SIA about making research usable beyond academic journals, co-producing knowledge with students, and why integrity, openness, and education are one job rather than three.

REACH Comics uses humor to illustrate the dilemmas the research community faces.

Jennifer Byrne moved from molecular oncology to hunting errors in the cancer literature. She talks to SIA about paper mills, why retractions come too slowly, and what it takes to trust the scientific record.

For three decades, Cochrane has worked to make healthcare decisions rest on reliable evidence. As the threats shift from methodological flaws to misinformation and unreliable AI, the organization is rebuilding its defenses.

Five years after its launch, the Einstein Foundation Award has advanced rigor, openness and transparency by recognizing initiatives that strengthen research quality worldwide.

Study registrations are meant to catch when a paper drifts from its plan, but almost nobody checks them line by line. RegCheck is a free tool that uses language models to make that comparison fast, consistent, and shareable.

Systematic reviews are only as trustworthy as the trials inside them, and the usual quality checks were never built to catch fabricated or seriously flawed studies. INSPECT-SR gives reviewers a structured way to spot the ones that should be left out.

Over the past decade, the CRediT taxonomy has shaped how contributions are defined and recognized across disciplines.