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Many academics have strong incentives to influence policymaking, but may not know where to start. Recent research has examined the ‘how to’ advice in the academic peer-reviewed and grey literatures.
The planet is getting warmer in catastrophic ways. And fear may be the only thing that saves us.
Techniques used to analyse data are producing misleading and often wrong results, critics say.
Social science has an image problem - too many findings don't hold up. A new project will crank through 30,000 studies to try to identify red flags.
A new study shows that little teams are more likely to take their research in radically new directions.
Collaborating on the development of Texture brings eLife a step closer to its open-source, end-to-end publisher workflow.
A new study suggests that making reviewers' reports freely readable doesn't compromise the peer-review process.
With the membership of NSTC, the main public research funding body in the Republic of Zambia, cOAlition S now has members in Europe, North America, and Africa, and has received further support in the Middle East and Asia, with particular support by China.
Researchers say the policy could intensify existing issues with research quality and misconduct.
This is the first empirical study of major academic journals’ willingness to publish a cohort of comparable and objective correction letters on misreported high-impact studies.
Kelvin Droegemeier starts work two years into an administration facing many challenges.
Advance knowledge in service of equitable and open scholarship is the mission of the Center for Research on Equitable and Open Scholarship. CREOS seeks evidence about the best ways disparate communities can participate in scholarship with minimal bias or barriers.
Invited talk by Jon Tennant delivered at the NFAIS 2019 Annual Conference.
A planned $35-million upgrade could enable LIGO to spot one black-hole merger per day by the mid-2020s.
NISO and NFAIS announced a planned merger yesterday, designed to better serve their members during a time of rapid change.
On the five-year anniversary of an uprising that propelled Ukraine away from Russia and towards Europe, scientists say things are improving too slowly.
From bias in peer review and unfair allocation of grant funding to sexual harassment and a gender pay gap, the scientific community certainly has a lot of work to do.
Gender and Precarious Research Careers aims to advance the debate on the process of precarisation in higher education and its gendered effects, and springs from a three-year research project across institutions in seven European countries. Examining gender asymmetries in academic and research organisations, this insightful volume focuses particularly on early careers. It centres both on STEM disciplines (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) and SSH (Social Science and Humanities) fields.
Current efforts to make research more accessible and transparent can reinforce inequality within STEM professions.
Despite growing awareness of predatory publishing and research on its market characteristics, the defining attributes of fraudulent journals remain controversial. The authors aimed to develop a better understanding of quality criteria for scholarly journals by analysing journals and publishers indexed in blacklists of predatory journals and whitelists of legitimate journals and the lists’ inclusion criteria.
Following these guiding principles for sharing data can help researchers get ahead.
A project to assess the reproducibility of findings in biomedical science by researchers based in Brazil has been published.
Many papers in basic biomedical science do not contain the information that is needed to determine what statistical tests were used and to verify the results of these tests.
February 11th was International Women and Girls in Science Day, but despite the best efforts of many parents, teachers, and policymakers over the last two decades the numbers are still dismal.
EUA has published a preview of the results of the latest edition of its Big Deals survey.
In a new study, researchers uncovered female programmers who made important but unrecognized contributions to genetics.
With thousand of pages of feedback on the Plans S implementation guidance, what themes emerged that might guide next steps?
Research needs an authoritative forum to hash out collective problems, argue C. K. Gunsalus, Marcia K. McNutt and colleagues.
