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Although there has been a welcome increase in discussion about gender disparities in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), broad participation of women from all backgrounds in academic STEM will not be achieved until institutions are transformed.
A. Hope Jahren on women, research, and life in the lab.
Ideally, in a reviewing process, it is generally easier for referees to make faster and more reliable decisions for high quality papers, which ideally and on average will later attract more citations. Therefore, it is possible that the editorial delay time—the time between dates of submission and acceptance or publication—is correlated to the number of received citations, as has been weakly confirmed by previous studies.
A famous faked study gets proved right—by the people who unmasked it in the first place.
Key areas that you’ll need to work on to be an outstanding proposal writer.
Control, surveillance and thought manipulation: there is an undercurrent of 1984 in today’s academy, doublethinks Eric Blair
Speech by Bjørn Haugstads, State Secretary to the Norwegian Minister of Education and Research
David Matthews examines the approach of ResearchGate, Academia.edu and Mendeley to profit, user data and open access publishing
It is an unfortunate convention of science that research should pretend to be reproducible; our top tips will help you mitigate this fussy conventionality, enabling you to enthusiastically showcase your irreproducible work.
Elite scientists generally agree on what character traits make for excellent science.
Content piracy may be illegal, but price gouging is at least as despicable.
Cutting down on long-distance air travel is the best way to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases by the scientific community.
You all know about publication bias, don't you? Sure you do. It's the tendency to publish research that has bold, affirmative results and ignore research that concludes there's nothing going on.
What if I told you that you don't need journals to do peer review?
The Amsterdam Call for Action on Open Science is the key outcome of the two-day conference ‘Open Science.
Is UK science better off in or out of the EU? The arguments are complex and only partially evidence-based. And that’s not surprising.
Do people think that scientists are bad people? Although surveys find that science is a highly respected profession, a growing discourse has emerged regarding how science is often judged negatively.
Speech by Commissioner Carlos Moedas in Amsterdam, NL
Now that most major research funders require researchers to make their outputs available in open access (OA), new developments in the field are coming faster than ever.
A professional body for UK social scientists can help to improve research practice — and not just in public engagement, says Andrew Webster.
The days of open science have arrived and it is time to move from pay-to-read to free-to-read, says EU's R&D Commissioner. But publishers want to keep their subscriptions.
Two high-profile cases in which universities — who by US law are the ones that must open an investigation into misconduct — stonewalled the effort.
Meet accused hacker and copyright infringer Alexandra Elbakyan.
By fetishising mathematical models, economists turned economics into a highly paid pseudoscience
