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Approaches for assessing the costs and benefits of publishing scientific data in various repositories are evaluated. The article identifies metrics useful for the reporting of their data services.
If you're working on a research project in biology, you'll need citations in the life sciences. But what is life science? Here's a guide for researchers.
A Nobel laureate is being praised for retracting a scientific paper that was not reproducible.
Sharing your work by self-archiving: encouragement from the Journal of the Medical Library Association
Exhausting, expensive, and exclusive, these conferences needs to be modernized. The future of science depends on it.
You've seen the news: COP25, the recent UN climate talks in Madrid, ended in disappointment and also set a record for the longest-ever COP. UCS's press release headline says it all: World's Nations Take Immoral Stance at COP25, Side with Trump, Bolsonaro Rather Than Youth Across the Globe. Here are
Let 2020 be the year in which we value those who ensure that science is self-correcting.
How has peer review fared in the 2010s? We outline some key trends that have helped to define, challenge and progress the peer review system over the decade.
What we learned from the spy in your pocket.
The vaccine, developed by Merck, protects against Zaire ebolaviruses, the species of the virus that has been the most common cause of Ebola outbreaks.
Alan Cooper was dismissed as the leader of a prestigious genomics centre, following an investigation.
Articles in high-impact journals are by definition more highly cited on average. But are they cited more often because the articles are somehow "better"? Or are they cited more often simply because they appeared in a high-impact journal?
Navigating the turbulent waters of the doctoral voyage
Letters blast rumored shift to immediate open access for taxpayer-funded studies
World's second-biggest publisher says proposals to accelerate switch to open access would not be sustainable for many titles
An analysis of submissions to two top journals showed that scientists in the U.S. were highly likely to be working during holidays.
The 2010s have seen breakthroughs in frontiers from gene editing to gravitational waves. The coming one must focus on climate change.
Robert Harington explores rumors circulating in recent weeks of an impending US Executive Order focusing on public access to federally funded research and open data.
Many scientific organizations struggle with teaching and incentivizing science-communication practices. Here's what they can do differently, says communication researcher Jessica Eise.
The findings mark a step forward in using space technology to detect leaks of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, from oil and gas sites worldwide.
NIH gets 7%, NSF only 2.5%, as Congress ignores Trump's proposed cuts.
Altmetric list of scholarship getting the most online attention shows that authenticity in science, and society more generally, is major theme of the year.
An opportunity for journals and publishers to take the bold step of changing their business model?
Do men and women differ in how positively they frame their research findings and is the positive framing of research is associated with higher downstream citations?
Ten people who mattered in science in 2019 according to nature.
