Peer review has been the backbone of scientific publishing for centuries, but many feel that the time has come for the system to be reformed. Michael Banks weighs up the options
Read article: Peer review under the spotlight
A history of one of the world’s most influential scientific journals is sound in the early years but leaves out some crucial modern developments, Peter Rodgers finds
Read article: Nature’s ups and downs
Study finds that institutions occupy "brokerage positions"
Read article: Leading universities form funding ‘clique’
Is there a logo that unifies all of physics, wonders Robert P Crease
Read article: Physics logos
Papers with short titles get more citations, study finds
Robert P Crease talks to the founder of a website devoted to literature about laboratories
Read article: Lab lit revealed
Robert P Crease reflects on a decade and a half of the Physics World Critical Point column
Read article: 15 years and counting
Chris Lintott discusses the evolving nature of citizen science
Read article: The ever-expanding Zooniverse
A million papers and counting for the arXiv preprint server
Find out more about the key physics events of the coming year – and those we predict might happen
Read article: The world of physics in 2015
