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The new director of the federal office that guards against misconduct in U.S.-funded biomedical research is aiming to shake things up—but is also encountering rough waters. Kathryn Partin, who took the helm of the Office of Research Integrity (ORI) in December 2015, has launched a top-to-bottom review of the office, which has been criticized for moving too slowly and meting out sanctions that lack teeth.
In this Perspective, Thomas C. Südhof describes some of the current challenges to the peer review system that have endangered public acceptance of science and discusses possible avenues to addressing these challenges.
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory's free, not-for-profit preprint service bioRxiv has received generous additional financial support.
To make replication studies more useful, researchers must make more of them, funders must encourage them and journals must publish them.
The replication crisis in science is largely attributable to a mismatch in our expectations of how often findings should replicate and how difficult it is to actually discover true findings in certain fields.
There is no perfect metric. There is no number or score which fully encapsulates the value, impact, or importance of a piece of research. While this statement might appear obvious, research evaluation and measurement are a fact of life for the scientific research community.
Many people see privately funded research as a threat to academic independence, but this is an incomplete view. Experts with close connections to politics and business are a logical consequence of a knowledge-based society. It is time for a fundamental debate on responsible research partnerships.
New reviewers are anxious to get some formal coaching before they start commenting the work of fellow academics.
OpenTrials will officially launch its beta on Monday 10th October 2016 at the World Health Summit in Berlin.
New science minister promises to review controversial reforms
Scientists and science communicators are engaged in a constant battle with ignorance. But that’s an approach doomed to failure, says Richard P Grant.
Badges that acknowledge open practices significantly increase sharing of reported data and materials, as well as subsequent accessibility, correctness, usability, and completeness.
This Community Page presents an open-access platform, protocols.io ( https://www.protocols.io/ ), which enables collaborative sharing and discovery of state-of-the-art research methods.
Approximately one-fifth of papers with supplementary Excel gene lists contain erroneous gene name conversions.
A time traveler from 1915 arriving in 1965 would have been astonished by the scientific theories and engineering technologies invented during that half century. One can only speculate, but it seems likely that few of the major advances that emerged during those 50 years were even remotely foreseeable in 1915.
Peer review is widely viewed as an essential step for ensuring scientific quality of a work and is a cornerstone of scholarly publishing. In this work we investigate the feasibility of a tool capable of generating fake reviews for a given scientific paper automatically.
Novel breakthroughs in research can have a dramatic impact on scientific discovery but face some distinct disadvantages in getting wider recognition.
Science is a big thing, but changing it relies on simple decisions made by individual researchers.
A dataset that is the result of content mining 167,318 published psychology articles for statistical test results.
Ambitious bids in the US to map the brain and cure cancer have not boosted overall research funding.
Barbara A. Spellman on the role of technological and demographic changes
Metrics derived from Twitter and other social media are increasingly used to estimate the broader social impacts of scholarship. Such efforts, however, may produce highly misleading results, as the entities that participate in conversations about science on these platforms are largely unknown.
The American space agency, Nasa, is to make all its research available free of charge.
Many studies show that open access (OA) articles are downloaded, and presumably read, more often than closed access/subscription-only articles. This study addresses those factors and shows that an open access citation advantage as high as 19% exists, even when articles are embargoed during some or all of their prime citation years.
