Researchers who want professorships are sometimes driven to publish suspect findings.

Metrics are notoriously inappropriate for evaluating humanistic scholarship. HumetricsHSS is an initiative to embed metrics with humanistic values.

It sounds almost absurd, but that could be one factor behind the so-called “reproducibility crisis”.

Thomas Insel's biggest lesson from his shift from NIMH director to Silicon Valley entrepreneur: academic and technology company researchers should partner up.

A look at what we have published highlights the variety of editorial judgements in selecting and assessing papers.

Could postdoc unions be the next big thing in collective bargaining among academics? Recent filing at University of Washington could be beginning of a new round of organizing.

Far from being duped, researchers with few resources are turning to "predatory" journals to publish articles and polish resumes.

How is a scientific article accepted for publication in an academic journal? What is the role of peer reviewers? Where does the system go astray?

What would the world be like without formal peer review?, asks Fields medallists Timothy Gowers.

Ideas and data can interact, and our work can certainly benefit from the bad ideas that, in the short-term, do not seem to directly benefit discovery. 

Could the real open access please stand up? If more research was published according to true open access principles, we'd see better application of evidence for everyone's benefit.

Pursuing extracurricular interests shouldn't be a crime.

The scientific and religious revolutions that began 500 years ago were not causally related, but were both stimulated by printing, argues David Wootton.

Permanent jobs in academia are scarce, and someone needs to let PhD students know.

We need to be more concerned than ever about how society uses scientific discoveries, says Venki Ramakrishnan, President of the Royal Society UK.

How to make widespread open data a reality.

An analysis of a collection of open-access datasets quantifies their benefit to the scientific community.

The evidence suggests limits to industry's willingness to fund R&D vacated by the federal government, should Congress go along with the White House's.

The New York Times Magazine story on Amy Cuddy brings up extremely important problems in science. But we cannot equate criticism with harassment.

Hindawi’s CEO, Paul Peters, explains the problems inherent in proprietary solutions for Open Science infrastructure and presents a proposal for how things can be done differently.

Why Greek and Latin medical terminology is better off dead.

Young firms struggle to compete as deep-pocketed companies like Facebook and Amazon clone products and consolidate their power.

What can be done to preserve the monograph.

The threat to US science does not come from scientists' assumptions, their commitment to investigator-initiated research or the research community's failure to tackle problems of public concern. It comes from an unrealistic system of draconian budget caps that stifle investment in the future.

Imagine a connected online web of scientific knowledge… tightly integrated with a scientific social web that directs scientists’ attention where it is most valuable, releasing enormous collaborative potential.

As artificial intelligence puts many out of work, we must forge new economic, social and educational systems, argues Yuval Noah Harari.

Brian C. Martinson imagines how rationing the number of publications a scientist could put out might improve the scientific literature.

Staid and conformist, science risks losing its creative spark. Does it need more mavericks, or are they part of the problem?

Professors and aspiring professors are complicit in perpetuating a rigged system.

When a scientific paper is retracted, it can produce long-term aftershocks.