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The article discusses about peer-review rigging in which authors review their own research work. Topics include authors being invited to suggest reviewers for their research papers, author Hyung-In Moon reviewing his own work and using automated process ScholarOne's owned by Nature Publishing Group for a peer view system and to invite qualified reviewers.

The article focuses on broken hyperlink references in research papers (reference rot) and methods to combat this problem. It states online archiving services like the Internet Archive and Harvard Law School Library's web-archiving service Perma allow researchers to store permanent copies of webpages as they viewed it when preparing manuscripts. It talks about the web archive project Memento which provides users access to all saved version of the web page and allow access to web-at-large links.

Chart, graphs and diagram are presented which explain topics including research papers contributors, article counts and subjects areas with high weighted fractional count (WFC).

The article discusses contributions by researchers in Middle and South America to science and technology research. Topics include investment in the science and technology investments made in the Middle and South America, total article count and physical sciences journals. University of Sao Paulo in Brazil and University of Chile is mentioned. Research funding in Argentina and Brazil are discussed. Charts presenting details of the research papers share are included.

The article reports after European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) European Bioinformatics Institute co-director Ewan Birney posted on the microblog Twitter on how to determine the quality of around 2,500 research papers instead of using journal titles as a proxy for quality.

An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses various reports within the issue on topics including research papers, scientific literature and researcher surveys.

The article discusses contributions by researchers in Africa to science and technology research. Topics include domestic science spending, international funding and research articles from Africa. African universities including Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia, University of the Witwatersrand and University of Cape Town (UCT) in South Africa are mentioned. Charts presenting details of the research papers are included.

An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses various reports within the issue on topics including research articles published, number of researchers and research funding.