The Important Thing is Not to Win, It is to Take Part
What if scientists benefit from participating in research grant competitions?
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Girls Who Code Encourages STEM, One Coding Class at a Time
The nonprofit's Summer Immersion Program aims to catch girls before their interest in computer science plummets.
Science Alone Won’t Save the Earth. People Have to Do That.
We need to start talking about what kind of planet we want to live on.
DOAJ Under Attack from an Unknown Third Party
After much investigation and active measures, we can state that the DOAJ is effectively under attack from an unknown third party.
How Freely Should Scientists Share Their Data?
How Freely Should Scientists Share Their Data?
The Open Science movement champions transparency, but how much and how quickly is a matter of dispute.
Tokyo Medical School Admits Changing Results to Exclude Women
Tokyo Medical School Admits Changing Results to Exclude Women
University manipulated test scores for more than a decade to ensure more men became doctors.
How Accessible is Psychology Data?
In a slightly depressing new paper, researchers describe how they tried to get access to the data behind 111 of the most cited psychology and psychiatry papers published in the past decade. Only 14% of the datasets were made available with no restrictions on who could access them.
Who Would You Share Your Funding With?
I want to see whether the wisdom of crowds does a better job than conventional grant review at supporting research, says Johan Bollen.
Saudi-Canada Dispute: Students Forced to Return Home
Students from Saudi Arabia studying Canada are have been ordered by their government to leave the country in the middle of their courses.
Saudi Arabia to Withdraw Students from Canada
Withdrawal is ordered as part of larger diplomatic spat over Canadian criticism of Saudi arrests of human rights activists.
Rosalind Franklin and the Damage of Gender Harassment
Spurred by a recent report on sexual harassment in academia, our columnist revisits a historical case and reflects on what has changed - and what hasn’t.
Citizen Science Can Make Systematic Reviews Faster and More Efficient
Citizen Science Can Make Systematic Reviews Faster and More Efficient
Citizen science: crowdsourcing for systematic reviews looks at how people can contribute their expertise to scientific studies using new online platforms - even if they don’t think of themselves as researchers or scientists.
Quantity Does Matter as Citation Impact Increases with Productivity
Europe Pulls Together in Scientific Union
Smaller countries rely more on regional collaborations than on domestic interaction.
Publons' ECR Reviewers' Choice Awards
Publons’ ECR Reviewer Choice Award celebrates early-career researchers' exceptional contribution to peer review, recognizing an individual who has been influential in the realm of peer review or has significantly contributed to improving the system.
The Dark Sides of Open Science
In this controversial opinion piece, German science expert Stefan Hornbostel argues that some transparency is good for science - but too much can backfire, reducing the efficiency and quality of research and eroding public trust.
It Just Got a Lot Harder to Ignore Predatory Publishing
Thanks to a major new international research study, it's no longer possible to pretend that predatory journals are not a serious problem that needs serious attention.
How to Pick an Electronic Laboratory Notebook
Choosing wisely from a burgeoning array of digital tools can help researchers to record experiments with ease.
So You Want to Make an Impact? Some Practical Suggestions for Early-Career Researchers
Designing Inclusion into Engineering Education
A fresh, practical look at how diversity impacts on engineering and strategies for change.
What Is a Predatory Journal? a Scoping Review
Summarizing the literature on predatory journals, describing its epidemiological characteristics, and extracting empirical descriptions of potential characteristics of predatory journals.
Female Inventors and Their Inventions That Changed the World and Impacted the History In a Revolutionary Way
Female Inventors and Their Inventions That Changed the World and Impacted the History In a Revolutionary Way
Here we pay tribute to some of the most courageous, innovative, and determined genius female inventors while we walk through their remarkable discoveries and try to imagine how hard it was for them at times.
There Is an Absence of Scientific Authority over Research Assessment as a Professional Practice, Leaving a Gap That Has Been Filled by Database Providers
There Is an Absence of Scientific Authority over Research Assessment as a Professional Practice, Leaving a Gap That Has Been Filled by Database Providers
To what extent does the academic research field of evaluative citation analysis confer legitimacy to research assessment as a professional practice?
When a Female C.E.O. Leaves, the Glass Ceiling Is Restored
Even at companies run by prominent women — where it seems that gender diversity has made great strides — why is a female leader hardly ever replaced by another woman?
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