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The case for “blinding” to make journal peer review fair seems less and less plausible to me for the long run. It even seems antithetical to ultimately reducing the problems it’s a bandaid solution for.
High price of journals 'placing strain on acceptance' of division of labour between researchers and publishers, says professor.
Thomas Insel's biggest lesson from his shift from NIMH director to Silicon Valley entrepreneur: academic and technology company researchers should partner up.
Recognize women who changed science with this free collection of print-at-home posters.
The Marcel Benoist Prize – the “Swiss Nobel Prize” for science – is to get a new look ahead of its centenary.
Approximately half of the editors of 52 prestigious U.S. medical journals received payments from the pharmaceutical and medical device industry in 2014.
Have you ever crossed international borders with protein crystals in a big Styrofoam hand luggage, set your hair on fire, or forgotten to use the extractor and nearly gassed your co-workers?
Elizabeth Gadd takes a look at the contradictions between scholarly culture and copyright culture, and the cognitive dissonance created.
A survey of researchers at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital provides insights into the challenges and opportunities involved in adopting an open science policy across an entire patient-oriented academic institution.
How is a scientific article accepted for publication in an academic journal? What is the role of peer reviewers? Where does the system go astray?
Encouraging researchers to post their outputs as preprints.
Psychologists are pessimistic about the state of their field but want to improve, a survey shows. But are new measures working?
Study suggests women with male partners face bias in searches for junior faculty members.
Ideas and data can interact, and our work can certainly benefit from the bad ideas that, in the short-term, do not seem to directly benefit discovery.
What would the world be like without formal peer review?, asks Fields medallists Timothy Gowers.
The city of Lausanne was chosen to host the 11th World Conference of Science Journalists.
Some of the colleagues of a professor couple facing bullying allegations at the ETH Zurich have written an open letter of support.
Sure, it’s happened to all of us — the invitation to be keynote speaker at a conference you’ve never heard of or an invitation to sit on an editorial board for a journal with a name you don’t recognize.
Could the real open access please stand up? If more research was published according to true open access principles, we'd see better application of evidence for everyone's benefit.
Could the real open access please stand up? If more research was published according to true open access principles, we'd see better application of evidence for everyone's benefit.
About 40 scientific unions and associations plus 140 national and regional science academies and research councils will be subsumed under the umbrella organisation.
More than 400 Pennsylvanians have already learned of disease mutations.
Students taking Stanford’s Advanced Topics in Networking class have to select a networking research paper and reproduce a result from it as part of a three-week pair project.
