We asked dozens of women about gender and power on campus. Here’s what they told us.

The process of buying something and therefore recognizing it is comparatively simple, but how do you create a schema for recognizing a cold war, or a bear market? That’s what DARPA wants to look into.

A survey of publishers with journals indexed in Directory of Open Access Journals has revealed surprising trends in the way that content is published.

  So, there I was, pipette in hand, doing actual labwork for the first time in a year. How had it come to this? When I started out, I was convinced I was not going to be one of those PIs who is never in the lab.

Robert-Jan Smits is pitching the Plan S vision to transform academic publishing to the world’s big science funding bodies.

The most-searched keywords in the Scopus database and on Google, revealed.

Indonesia researchers have inflated their Indonesia’s Science and Technology Index (SINTA) score by publishing large numbers of papers in low-quality journals, citing their own work excessively, or forming networks of scientists who cited each other.

Scientists say that increasingly rigorous licensing procedures have complicated research efforts - and in some cases, stopped experiments completely.

Workshop concludes that early-career researchers can make important contributions to policy decisions and experimenting with various forms of communication (i.e. opinion pieces, youtube channels, and tweeting at MPs) had the potential to improve knowledge transfer.

The author argues that the two biggest forces driving change in the scholarly communication landscape are consolidation and regulation. By consolidation, he means that there’s a now constant cycle of mergers and acquisitions, reducing the number of independent players in the market. By regulation, we’re talking about the increasing number of rules and the compliance burden being put on researchers.