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Science "deserves better than to be twisted out of proportion and turned into morning show gossip."
Women only got top billing in 37 percent of medical studies published in leading journals over the past two decades.
Notes on Open Science from the Barcamp Science 2.0 and the Science 2.0 Conference.
John Oliver discusses how and why media outlets so often report untrue or incomplete information as science.
The seven excuses for not doing so are all invalid.
How can interdisciplinary research proposals be more effectively assessed through peer review?
Royal Society's President, Sir Venki Ramakrishnan, on the key principles to guide the future of UK's research.
Interview with Daniel Lakens, Assistant Professor in Applied Cognitive Psychology at the Eindhoven University of Technology
Survey responses reveal that beyond lack of journal access, convenience and antipathy toward publishers are key motivations for turning to paper repository
The current incentives structure — mostly based on publishing in prestigious journals — discourages sharing, replication, and, some argue, careful science.
A study released on Thursday found that many Ph.D. students pursue post-docs as a “default” option after graduate school, or as part of a “holding pattern” until the job they want is available.
Complex, diverse rationales require nuanced policies: evidence suggests a need for increased attention to career planning among students, their mentors, graduate schools, and funders
The symposium “Personalized Health in the Digitial Age” brings together some of the world's thought leaders in the ongoing revolution in personalized and digital health.
Crossref will enable members to register preprints in order to clarify the scholarly citation record and better support the changing publishing models of its members.
The problem of bias in published research must be tackled in a consistent and comprehensive fashion, says Adam G. Dunn.
Following their February breakthrough, Kip Thorne, Rainer Weiss, Ronald Drever and nearly 1,000 LIGO scientists will share the Silicon Valley-backed prize.
Austrian social scientist Helga Nowotny was president of the European Research Council between 2010 and 2013. Now a professor emerita of ETH Zurich and author of The Cunning of Uncertainty (Polity, 2015), Nowotny discusses the growing pressure to capitalize on academic research, and how countries can get it right in the absence of a universal recipe.
Sci-Hub is facing millions of dollars in damages in a lawsuit filed by Elsevier, one of the largest academic publishers. As a result of the legal battle the site just lost one of its latest domain names. However, the site has no intentions of backing down, and will continue its fight to keep access to scientific knowledge free and open.
The value that Australia places on publication quality over quantity has elevated it into the top echelon of science. Can it now improve its flagging track record in commercialization?
The opinions of others are key to creating or damaging an institution's reputation
A broader understanding of 'impact' could help governments to measure the diverse benefits of their investment in research.
Canadian scientists are now allowed to speak out about their work — and the government policy that had restricted communications.
