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The United States and South Korea have the highest tendencies for novel science. China has become a leader in favoring newer ideas when working with basic science ideas and research tools, but is still slow to adopt new clinical ideas. Many locations remain far behind the leaders in terms of their tendency to work with novel ideas.
Widespread adoption of preregistration will increase distinctiveness between hypothesis generation and hypothesis testing and will improve the credibility of research findings.
On the inadequacy and lack of transparency of most research institutions’ responses to allegations of research misconduct.
Fake news has a long history, but there are new unanswered scientific questions raised by the proliferation of its most recent, politically oriented incarnation.
Nature journals encourage researchers who submit papers that rely on custom software to provide the programs for peer review.
To understand how false news spreads, Vosoughi et al. used a data set of rumor cascades on Twitter from 2006 to 2017. About 126,000 rumors were spread by ∼3 million people. False news reached more people than the truth; the top 1% of false news cascades diffused to between 1000 and 100,000 people, whereas the truth rarely diffused to more than 1000 people. Falsehood also diffused faster than the truth.
Reflections upon the problems encountered when writing women in mathematics into Wikipedia.
A new algorithm is trying to automate the process of identifying gang crimes. But some scientists warn that far from reducing gang violence, the program could do the opposite by eroding trust in communities, or it could brand innocent people as gang members.
27 Twitter accounts bringing out the silly, quirky, and fun side of academia, introducing you to a space on Twitter where academics can be casual, friendly, and humorous.
Four concrete suggestions - for Childcare, Accommodate families, Resources, Establish social networks - are directed toward research societies and conference organizers who are willing to take a leadership role in creating solutions, either incrementally or on a large scale.
Overlooking the need for paid Editorial Office staff hobbles many attempts to reform peer review.
Study finds "strikingly high" rates of depression and anxiety, with many reporting little help or support from supervisors.
Despite some progress, researchers are still reluctant to switch journals because of fears it could hinder their careers.
What if it is not the concepts described by science fiction that could have the most impact, but the act of storytelling - the creation of scientific narratives - itself?
The accomplishments, limitations, recent advances and directions for future developments in the field of research synthesis.
An overview of the landscape of online data infrastructures, and highlight the key points to consider when using open data.
Reporting summaries help authors to provide important details before review.
Internal and external pressure drive a rush toward prestige.
The journal Archives of Iranian Medicine just published a set of 33 papers about one study.
