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While deceptive publishing remains an ongoing issue, particularly in the developing world, increasing public engagement, development of OA policies, and discussion of sustainable and ethical publishing practices can remove this potential threat.
The Winnower will power a range of publishing services for researchers who are writing on Authorea.
A PLOS selection of research articles, guidelines, and commentaries about data sharing, data practices, and data policies from different research fields.
The majority of our authors are opting in to publish reviewer reports of their papers.
Researchers acting to maximise their fitness should spend most of their effort seeking novel results and conduct small studies that have only 10%–40% statistical power. As a result, half of the studies they publish will report erroneous conclusions. Current incentive structures are in conflict with maximising the scientific value of research; we suggest ways that the scientific ecosystem could be improved.
eLife has appointed Paul Shannon as its new Head of Technology to oversee the development of tools and software in support of science communication.
Semantic Scholar extends its reach to neuroscience, analyzing millions of science articles
A new search engine called Semantic Scholar helps academics deal with the increasingly enormous volume of academic research.
Neuroscientist Ana Mingorance’s experience highlights some pointers for successfully making the move to industry.
Journal experiments and surveys suggest scientists are coming round to the idea of publishing review reports. A few journals, such as PeerJ, the BMJ and F1000Research, already embrace open peer review in various different forms.
Top science and tech talent could choose to set up in other countries that are more hospitable to their work.
A free, open source, preprints repository, api, and aggregator for arXiv, PeerJ, Research Papers in Economics, PsyArXiv, SocArXiv, engrXiv, and others.
Biologists in particular are writing their papers in a less formal style.
If you are considering developing a new database, please, for the love of science, follow these 10 simple rules for creating and maintaining (biological) databases.
The story of La Paillasse: an open lab which aims to cut out the intermediaries and create a much more open way of doing research, enabling to fast-prototype solutions to scientific problems.
Biomedical funders worldwide are adopting the US agency’s free Relative Citation Ratio to analyse grant outcomes.
Researchers may publish their best work at any point in their careers, a new study reports. This is not the same as success being the result of random forces or just plain “dumb luck.”
In an era where research bureaucracy is the biggest burden bestowed upon scientists, some are seeking practical solutions.
While offering reviewers any form of guidance is better than none, being thorough and creating a reviewer checklist is by far the best way to help reviewers know the expectations of your journal.
The European Commission and the European Investment Fund are inviting applications for setting up and managing one or more private-sector led, market-driven Pan-European Venture Capital Funds-of-Funds.
How should the scientific publication process be rethought to be more meritocratic?
The relatively low success rates for applicants in most parts of Horizon 2020 have been heavily and unanimously criticized by the stakeholders. In response, the European Commission introduced more generally a proposal evaluation in two stages, in order to ease the burden of unsuccessful applicants during the first stage. This approach received a very positive feedback from the scientific communities.
5-year subscription access to around 1,850 journals on Elsevier’s ScienceDirect e-platform.
Exploring the research output on specific natural disasters.
World Health Organization asks research initiatives to focus on translating their findings into clinical benefits.
