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This study investigates whether bias with single-blind review is greatest in a setting of author or institutional prestige.
Cell biologist Yoshinori Ohsumi becomes sole winner of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Phsyiology or Medicine for his work on autophagy
Women and men applying for geoscience postdocs receive very different letters of support from their mentors.
PubPeer users went from discussing papers to hunting down fraud—and have embroiled the site in the most important internet privacy case you've never heard of.
Academic social networks may get users hooked on them, like addicted academics, transforming what should only be a means into an end in itself.
A place for academics to review the publishing process at peer-reviewed journals.
A collection of case studies on various aspects of interdisciplinarity in science.
A voluntary commitment to the values of openness and transparency in science.
Saul Perlmutter tells that there is a ‘fundamental misunderstanding’ of the purpose of research
Science's quality control processes are under question. Scientists should think about changing the rules and extending their peer communities.
The Nobel Prize epitomizes the winner-takes-all economics of credit allocation and distorts the history of science by personalizing discoveries that are truly made by groups of individuals.
A new survey shoots down the idea that early-career researchers aresomehow more likely to be digital natives and therefore more apt to conduct computational social science than those whose PhDs were issued more than a decade ago.
A Cross-Sectional Study
Data sharing rules are vague and institution-specific and permit researchers to erect obstacles that give them effective veto power over use of their data.
When knowledge is uncertain, experts should avoid pressures to simplify their advice. Render decision-makers accountable for decisions, says Andy Stirling.
Last week, Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg announced their new philanthropic initiative with the goal of “curing, preventing, and managing all diseases by the end of the century.” This may raise some eyebrows, but this effort—part of the $45 billion Chan Zuckerberg Initiative—joins forces with other philanthropists to push the envelope and support audacious ideas, with long-term commitments, to solve some of our greatest challenges.
The Greek government is trying to stop the nationwide brain drain stemming from global financial crisis. This week, the parliament was expected to take up legislation to create the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (HFRI), modeled after the German Research Foundation and the U.S. National Science Foundation.
This article describes some of the ways that identifiers can help to unlock the potential of open research.
To support the long-term growth of eLife we are going to introduce a publication fee of $2500
The open-access journal eLife is dropping one of its most distinctive features: free publishing. From 2017, it will charge a fee of $2,500 for all accepted papers.
Women publish and review less than men in American Geophysical Union journals, but have a higher acceptance rate.
