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As 2025 draws to a close, we’re excited to reveal the top 10 most popular papers from across the Royal Society’s journals, ranked by Altmetric attention scores. These studies captured global interest, sparking conversations in news outlets, social media, and beyond.

A new biological science practices paper in Proceedings B addresses how a more forward-thinking view on open science may help better prepare for the future of our species.  Author Dylan Gomes from the U.S. Geological Survey, Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center in Seattle tells us more about the paper.

Our mission as a not-for-profit society publisher is to recognise, publish, and promote excellence in science. In celebration of outstanding scientific achievements and the researchers behind them, we are proud to present the top-cited articles from each of the Royal Society journals published in 2023.

Thank you to everyone who chose to read our papers and publish in our journals this year! As we count down to 2025, we’re celebrating the top 10 most popular articles of the year according to Altmetric.

At the heart of our mission as a non-profit society publisher, we uphold the values of recognising, publishing, and promoting excellence in the field of science. In commemoration of outstanding scientific contributions and the researchers who contribute to them, we are pleased to present the most cited articles from each of our journals in the year 2022.

As we count down to 2024, we’re celebrating the top 10 most popular articles of the year according to Altmetric.

Stuart Taylor, the Royal Society’s outgoing Publishing Director, reflects on progress towards open access.

Recognising, publishing, and promoting excellence in science are part of our core values as a not-for-profit society publisher. To celebrate brilliant science and the researchers behind it, we're sharing the top-cited article from each of our journals in 2021.

As we count down to 2023, we’re celebrating the top 10 most popular articles of the year according to Altmetric.

Have you ever thought about what goes into making a great journal cover? Here we explore how our journals select cover images and provide some tips to authors aspiring to have their work featured on the cover.

A large number of Phil Trans papers ended up circulating as separate texts. New research looks at the distribution of these offprints: where and to whom were they sent?

When inoculation against smallpox was introduced to Britain from the Middle East in the early 1720s, members of the Royal Society found themselves on the wrong side of both conventional wisdom and contemporary piety.