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That Sci-Hub’s activities are illegal is not disputed. However, according to Iván Farías Pelcastre and Flor González Correa the issue at the core of the debate is the current publishing and knowled…
A professor of higher education at the University of Pennsylvania talks about why faculty diversity is an important — and elusive — goal.
BioMed Central psychology journal will attempt to tackle publication bias by withholding research results from peer reviewers.
Publons top overall contributors to peer review in science and research.
For Peer Review Week, researchers from across the spectrum offer advice and insights about how to review research manuscripts
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has been arm-twisting journalists into relinquishing their reportorial independence, our investigation reveals. Other institutions are following suit.
Can we as a community provide citizen scientists worldwide a chance to publish open access peer reviewed articles without significant cost through a competitive publication fee subsidy scheme where each application is reviewed by the national science funding agency?
The inaugural Sentinel of Science awards aim to give peer review a bit more luster by showcasing the contributions of reviewers.
Matthias Egger, internationally renowned epidemiologist and public health expert, will be the new president of the National Research Council of the SNSF as of 2017.
As part of its new 13th 5-year plan, the Chinese Academy of Sciences this month unveiled plans for a national science center...
If Zuckerberg and Chan want to get some bang for their buck, they’ll need to break down the structures that hold brilliant young scientists back
The cancer researcher reflects on the 2016 election, his experience as a political adviser, and the difficulties of communicating how science works.
Thomson Reuters Web of Science 2016 Nobel Prize Predictions based on Citations.
Last week saw the publication of the latest world university rankings. But until the purveyors of these league tables address the uncertainties in their data, no-one knows where they really stand. Opinion piece by Stephen Curry.
MacArthur Fellowships, or "Genius Grants" are awarded annually to between 20 and 30 individuals who have shown "extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits and a marked capacity for self-direction" and are citizens or residents of the US.
The Importance — and the Complexities — of Data Sharing
Concerns about data sharing patient-level data from clinical trials.
A torrent of low-quality meta-analyses and systematic reviews in biomedicine might be hiding valuable research and misleading scientists.
Scientists incentivised to publish surprising results frequently in major journals, despite risk that such findings are likely to be wrong, suggests research.
New study adds to evidence that student reviews of professors have limited validity.
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative aims to have major impact by 2100.
Poor research design and data analysis encourage false-positive findings. Such poor methods persist despite perennial calls for improvement, suggesting that they result from something more than just misunderstanding.
Around the world, poverty and social background remain huge barriers in scientific careers.
With a focus on deep reporting, a print magazine, and an intense affinity for illustrations, nonprofit Nautilus has taken an expensive approach to launching a new science publication.
A surprising number of physicists and astronomers and STEM professionals compete in long, hard, miserable athletic endeavors like ultramarathons. Why?
Who gets credit for the technology to cut-and-paste the human genome?
