A tale of preprints, publications, and (kind of) open peer review.

Our Taken for Granted columnist discusses a new report about the practice-and recommendations for reform.

Some university presses rely on subsidies because their mission is to expand knowledge - not to publish blockbusters.

What legal, as well as ethical and social, factors will ultimately shape the contours of open science? Should all restrictions be fought, or should some be allowed to persist, and if so, in what form?

Following charges against a female scientist, some faculty at Switzerland's elite universities say the country has a gender equity problem.

DORA is sometimes taken to be an initiative merely focused on criticising the undue influence of one specific metric, the journal impact factor (JIF). But to see DORA just in those terms overlooks the many positive prescriptions that the declaration lays out for how to reform research assessment.

Open-source software is largely developed by active scientists, yet university hierarchies and national funding bodies generally do not recognise code as valuable output.

There are a couple of angles to look at researcher conflict of interest from. One is that a conflict could distort their work, tilting findings and claims away from "the truth". The other is for the way the work is received, not how it is done: authors' perceived conflicts could damage credibility. How does this translate to authors of systematic reviews and meta-analyses? Are the issues the same, no matter the type of study? I've been thinking about that a lot lately. I was one of the external stakeholders consulted as part of the Cochrane Collaboration's review of its conflict of interest policy for their systematic reviews editorial teams. As they explain, they are looking to strengthen their approach to financial conflicts, and "consider a wider range of possible inherent biases". In biomedicine at least, systematic reviewers/meta-analysts are widely seen as arbiters on the state of knowledge. Their work often guides individual decisions, policy, and funding. I think that

As young scientists, we are fooled into working harder and longer to live up to sky-high expectations and encouraged to feel inadequate.

By Rob Cuthbert Tips from an editor on how Times Higher Education can shift the negative perceptions of people in higher education to reassert its value to the sector. Times Higher Educat…

The Journal Impact Factor has been widely critiqued as a measure of individual academic performance. However, it is unclear whether these criticisms and high profile declarations, such as DORA, have led to significant cultural change.

Clarice Phelps may have been the first African-American woman to help discover a chemical element. For Wikipedia, that wasn't enough.

Libraries and funding agencies are finally flexing their muscles against journal paywalls. Authors should follow suit.

What exactly qualifies as "citizen science" (CS)? It is interpreted in various ways and takes different forms with different degrees of participation. In fact, the label CS is currently assigned to research activities either by project principal investigators themselves or by research funding agencies.

There have been five mass extinctions in the history of the Earth. But in the 21st century, scientists now estimate that society must urgently come to grips this coming decade to stop the very first human-made biodiversity catastrophe.

Advice for early-career researchers from a negotiation expert.

The development of preprint servers as self-organising peer review platforms could be the future of scholarly publication.

As an early career researcher (ECR), making the transition from the “traditional” way of doing science into methods that are more open, reproducible, and replicable can be a daunting prospect. We know something needs to change about our workflow, but where do we start?

Science is never the work of one person; it is the collaborative effort of students, technicians, professors, librarians and the support networks around them. This week, millions of girls and women around the world who have been told science is not for them found a new role model in Bouman - a new data point that told them yes you can.

Superbugs are spreading. We need doctors trained to treat them.

The world's youth have begun to persistently demonstrate for the protection of the climate and other foundations of human well-being. As scientists and scholars who have recently initiated similar letters of support in our countries, we call for our colleagues across all disciplines and from the entire world to support these young climate protesters. Their concerns are justified and supported by the best available science.

Despite the moral assurance and personal flattery that meritocracy offers to the successful, it ought to be abandoned both as a belief about how the world works and as a general social ideal.

Abigail Cabunoc Mayes from Mozilla Open Leaders offers some answers.

We asked experts for practical suggestions on why Google's AI ethics council bombed and what the company should do next.

James Wilsdon feels that a new university ranking based on contributions to society is too little, too late.

Advice from the first Science Day at the Arizona state legislature: learn the structure, culture, and language of politics.

Many previous attempts at achieving gender parity - like special awards for women - are decried as tokenism, and seem unlikely to induce sustained and systemic change. Given this mindset, our research team decided to take a slightly different approach - with promising results.

If sexual harassment, misconduct, and retaliation are the firing squads that assassinate individual careers, then implicit bias is the lead in the water that poisons the entire town.

PhD grads complain that there are too few academic jobs. Should universities recruit fewer or do they need to support their postgrads into alternative careers?

The views of Alessandro Strumia, as expressed in your story "My big bang theory is: women don't like physics" (News Review, last week), are based on a biased interpretation of the data and are at...