Conflicts of Interest in Nutrition Research
This Medical News story examines the outcry over a recently published guideline that found insufficient evidence to recommend eating less red meat.
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Working Together Towards Reproducibililty
Oxford initiative aims to link people and disciplines, say Laura Fortunato and Dorothy Bishop.
Scholarly Publishers Are Happy To Give Stuff Away If Someone Pays Them
Scholarly Publishers Are Happy To Give Stuff Away If Someone Pays Them
The open-access era seems to be arriving for academic research, but it looks as if big publishers will still profit.
Universities Ignore Growing Concern over Sci-Hub Cyber Risk
Warnings that Sci-Hub poses a cybersecurity threat to universities have intensified. But few institutions appear to be acting on them.
The Data Science Revolution: An Interview with Xiao-Li Meng
An interview with Xiao-Li Meng, Professor of Statistics at Harvard University, about the increasingly central role data science is playing in research and teaching - and how journals, publishers, societies, and librarians fit in this emerging ecosystem.
How Scientists Are Coping with 'ecological Grief'
Scientists reveal how they are dealing with a profound sense of loss as the climate emergency worsens.
Learned Societies Turn Against Scholarship and Join Publishers for Profit
In a recent letter to the White House, a group of corporate publishers and scholarly organizations implore the president to leave intact…
Universities Must Overhaul the Toxic Working Culture for Academic Researchers | Anton Muscatelli
Universities Must Overhaul the Toxic Working Culture for Academic Researchers | Anton Muscatelli
A survey has warned that researchers are too stressed. It's up to universities to improve their working environment
China is Closing Gap with United States on Research Spending
The United States is no longer the 'uncontested leader' in science globally, the National Science Foundation says.
Global Problems Need Social Science
Without human insights, data and the hard sciences will not meet the challenges of the next decade.
Registered Reports Are Coming to PLOS ONE
PLOS ONE will soon offer Registered Reports, a preregistration option which enables open peer review and publication of the initial study protocol in advance of the full research article.
Innovation Leaders 2020: Introducing the Cohort
We announce the participants and projects joining our new mentorship and open leadership training programme.
What Researchers Think About the Culture They Work In: Quantitative Dataset
What Researchers Think About the Culture They Work In: Quantitative Dataset
Here we present an anonymized version of the dataset that we collected in the quantitative phase of Wellcome's research on research culture. Additionally, we present a document detailing how the data was transformed to protect anonymity. We also present a flowchart that indicates how participants were guided to answer questions in the survey.
Science Institutions for a Complex, Fast-Paced World
The post-World War II model for organizing science remains powerful, but moving beyond its limits will be necessary for assuring the contributions of science to solving a wide array of challenges.
Viewpoint: We Lost the Brexit Argument. But We Need to Fight on
The Scientists for EU group is gearing up for 2020 after the desperate disappointment of losing its three-and-a-half year campaign against Brexit - a result that has major implications for research.
Recommendations for Transparent Communication of Open Access Prices and Services
Recommendations for Transparent Communication of Open Access Prices and Services
An independent report published by Information Power aims to improve the transparency of Open Access (OA) prices and services.
Orderly Desk, Orderly Mind
Stay organized to help spot ways in which brain circuits rewire themselves!
What Researchers Think About the Culture They Work in
Perspectives on and experiences of research culture, based on a survey of more than 4,000 researchers in the UK and globally.
Tracking Self-Citations in Academic Publishing
Citation metrics have value because they aim to make scientific assessment a level playing field, but urgent transparency-based changes are necessary to ensure that the data yields an accurate picture. One problematic area is the handling of self-citations.
Academics Must Balance Privacy and Honesty to Become Great Role Models
Diversity initiatives applaud role models but academics who are carers can have trouble relinquishing family privacy to share their experiences.
FDA and NIH Let Clinical Trial Sponsors Keep Results Secret and Break the Law
FDA and NIH Let Clinical Trial Sponsors Keep Results Secret and Break the Law
Science investigation of ClinicalTrials.gov reveals that federal promises to enforce trial transparency have been ineffective.
Eleven Tips for Working with Large Data Sets
Big data are difficult to handle. These tips and tricks can smooth the way.
Let Authors Choose How to Pay for Peer Review and Publication
This essay argues that giving authors a choice between submission fees and APCs has numerous benefits.
Tackling the Global Misinformation Crisis One Reference, One Librarian at a Time
Atlas of Open Science and Research in Finland 2019 Published
This evaluation of Finnish research organisations, research-funding organisations, academic and cultural institutes abroad and learned societies and academies examines the key indicators chosen to assess the performance on openness. Key indicators are used to provide some insights on the competences and capacity of the research system in supporting progress towards openness. Barriers and development needs are discussed, with suggestions for improvement.
Oceans Are Warming at the Same Rate As if Five Hiroshima Bombs Were Dropped in Every Second
Oceans Are Warming at the Same Rate As if Five Hiroshima Bombs Were Dropped in Every Second
The world's oceans are now heating at the same rate as if five Hiroshima atomic bombs were dropped into the water every second, scientists have said.
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