Publishing an open-access paper in a journal can be prohibitively expensive. Some researchers are drumming up support for a movement to change that.

It may not be sexy, but quality assurance is becoming a crucial part of lab life.

Stephan Lewandowsky and Dorothy Bishop explain how the research community should protect its members from harassment, while encouraging the openness that has become essential to science.

What underlies the negative perception about Frontiers?

A white paper written by Leslie Vosshall and Michael Eisen aimed at promoting pre-print use in biomedicine.

A WEF report on the widespread disruption not only to business models but also to labour markets over the next five years.

Two NEJM editors say data sharing should happen symbiotically, not parasitically.

The most prestigious journals publish the least reliable science (at least when looking at the available evidence from experimental fields).

Last year "PLOS ONE" published 10% fewer papers than it did two years ago, but its editors are not alarmed.

This is a proposal for a system for evaluation of the quality of scientific papers by open review of the papers through a platform inspired by StackExchange.

Die Menschheit steht vor großen Herausforderungen. Doch das Wissenschaftssystem bleibt starr. Das muss sich ändern.

The vast majority of scientific papers today are published in English. What gets lost when other languages get left out?

There’s more money to be made investing in drugs that will extend cancer patients’ lives by a few months than in drugs that would prevent cancer in the first place.

We asked four researchers who made the news in 2015 what they would change about how science gets done.

When it comes to protecting the scientific literature from bias, the safeguards that academics now use are sorely inadequate.

Researchers are urged to make their work accessible, but simplifying complex ideas doesn’t support great scholarship.

Research can only exist with good and secure funding, but when obtaining funding becomes a dominant part of investigators’ activity, the system has a problem.

Honoring young researchers who champion rigorous, transparent research is a small step towards changing the culture of science.

Too many senior scholars abuse their power when it comes to assigning credit.

Ask not what you can do for reproducibility; ask what reproducibility can do for you.

We have little or no evidence that peer review 'works,' but we have lots of evidence of its downside.

Drivers of research may need to be tweaked to ensure better contribution to society.

For most young researchers, academic research is the love of their life. But how much can and should be sacrificed for this love?

There are too many PhD students for too few academic jobs - but with imagination, the problem could be solved.

Scientific innovation is being smothered by a culture of conformity.

It is not an insult when others try to replicate our research—it is standard science

Public funding made available for research after the WWII were expected to lead to industrial development, economic growth, and a general improvement of living standards. Yet, this model has been questioned for a few year.

The web had been created to bring academics together; now it offered them a way of sharing their research online for free.

If peer review were a drug, it would never get on the market.

At first glance the patriarchy appears to be thriving. Yet there is plenty of cause for concern. Men cluster at the bottom as well as the top.