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20 Years Ago, Research Fraud Catalyzed the Anti-Vaccination Movement. Let’s Not Repeat History.

20 Years Ago, Research Fraud Catalyzed the Anti-Vaccination Movement. Let’s Not Repeat History.

How Andrew Wakefield’s shoddy science fueled autism-vaccine fears.

Read What You Are Looking For! ScienceOpen Integrates More Open Access Data

Read What You Are Looking For! ScienceOpen Integrates More Open Access Data

One of the biggest challenges for researchers is time. So when you find an abstract of interest and have just a moment to actually read, you need the full text right now. With our newest release, the ScienceOpen discovery environment incorporates open access data from Impactstory to provide researchers with more ways to read the …

It's Time to Stand up to the Academic Publishing Industry: Here’s How

It's Time to Stand up to the Academic Publishing Industry: Here’s How

Academia is unique in that professionals with highly specialized expertise, who are paid by public institutions, write articles and provide peer reviews to corporations who profit greatly without giving back to the research enterprise.

SpringerNature Hurries 7 Billion Euro Frankfurt Listing

SpringerNature Hurries 7 Billion Euro Frankfurt Listing

SpringerNature, the publisher of science magazine Nature, has brought forward a listing which may value it at more than 7 billion euros ($8.6 billion) including debt, to reduce the risk from volatile stock markets.

How Scihub Is at the Forefront of the Quest to Frame Scientific Knowledge as Public Good

How Scihub Is at the Forefront of the Quest to Frame Scientific Knowledge as Public Good

There has been no precedent for this kind of access in the history of scientific enterprise.

Transdisciplinary PhD Programmes Produce More High-Impact Publications and Foster Increased Collaborations

Transdisciplinary PhD Programmes Produce More High-Impact Publications and Foster Increased Collaborations

While rates of productivity were broadly similar, citation rates were found to be higher for transdisciplinary students, as were indicators of collaboration such as co-authorship.

Scientist Takes Her Sexual Harassment Findings to Congress

Scientist Takes Her Sexual Harassment Findings to Congress

Kathryn Clancy has spent years studying how sexual harassment pervades science. This week, she’s taking those findings to Congress.

As a Saudi Woman Scientist, I'm Tired of Negative Stereotypes

As a Saudi Woman Scientist, I'm Tired of Negative Stereotypes

I’ve encountered even more prejudice as a researcher from the Middle East than as a woman working in Saudi Arabia, says Malak Abedalthagafi.​

Where Are We with Responsible Metrics? And Where Might We Go Next? Reflections from Two Recent Events

Where Are We with Responsible Metrics? And Where Might We Go Next? Reflections from Two Recent Events

How effectively are UK higher education institutions engaging with the broader use of metrics in research assessment?

Comments Please! Open Science Training Handbook

Comments Please! Open Science Training Handbook

Everyone who is interested in Open Science is invited to comment the first draft of an online handbook for Open Science trainers. The deadline for comments is 4 March 2018.

Sliced And Diced: The Inside Story Of How An Ivy League Food Scientist Turned Shoddy Data Into Viral Studies

Sliced And Diced: The Inside Story Of How An Ivy League Food Scientist Turned Shoddy Data Into Viral Studies

Brian Wansink won fame, funding, and influence for his science-backed advice on healthy eating. Now, emails show how the Cornell professor and his colleagues have hacked and massaged low-quality data into headline-friendly studies to “go virally big time.”

The 2017 Tech Leavers Study: Why People Voluntarily Left Jobs in Tech

The 2017 Tech Leavers Study: Why People Voluntarily Left Jobs in Tech

Workplace culture drives turnover, significantly affecting the retention of underrepresented groups, and costing the industry more than $16 billion each year.

Researchers Have Finally Created a Tool to Spot Duplicated Images Across Thousands of Papers

Researchers Have Finally Created a Tool to Spot Duplicated Images Across Thousands of Papers

Publishers would need to join forces to apply image-checking software across the literature.

Brilliant Scientific Discoveries We Have Badass Women to Thank For

Brilliant Scientific Discoveries We Have Badass Women to Thank For

Despite numerous push-backs and disregard from male colleagues, these women persevered to make some of the greatest breakthroughs in scientific history, paving the way for millions of young women and girls to enter what was traditionally a male-dominated industry.

Women & Girls in Science: Working Together to Fix the Leaky Pipeline

Women & Girls in Science: Working Together to Fix the Leaky Pipeline

Currently, the biggest challenge facing women in science in Switzerland is the striking gender imbalance that exists at the highest rungs of the academic ladder.

Survey Reveals Federal Departments Still Blocking Access to Scientists

Survey Reveals Federal Departments Still Blocking Access to Scientists

Results show marked improvement compared with 2013 version of the survey, but union says ‘culture shift’ is taking time.