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What if I told you that half of the studies published in scientific journals today - the ones upon which news coverage of medical advances is often based - won't hold up under scrutiny?
Scientists on social media debate a call to require PhD students to replicate research before they can graduate.
Is public money being thrown away on scientific research whose results won’t hold up to scrutiny?
Active problem-solving confers a deeper understanding of science than does a standard lecture. But some university lecturers are reluctant to change tack.
Working longer hours leads to poorer productivity. If you’re trying to impress people and move up the ranks, the solution isn’t to work longer, but to work smarter.
To drive discovery, scientists heading up research teams large and small need to learn how people operate, argue C. Leiserson and C. McVinney.
What can go wrong when governments use research to make a country look good.
Metrics play a growing role in managing research. But to understand their limitations, we need to draw on the humanities.
Statistics still show some fields of science remain heavily male-dominated.
The National Institute of General Medical Sciences at the NIH has come up with a new system for funding researchers. Will the new Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award prove beneficial?
Storing and processing genome data will exceed the computing challenges of running YouTube and Twitter.
Will integrating original studies and published replications always improve the reliability of your results? No! Replication studies suffer from the same publication bias as original studies.
Interview with Mark Hahnel , founder of the data sharing platform [26]Figshare and keynote speaker on "Open Science" at [27]ScienceComm'15.
Institutions must be plain about research metrics if academics are to engage with them.
Why is the Wellcome Trust mandating the use of ORCID?
Mechanisms to help researchers to balance work and home lives have made a positive difference to the gender balance at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne.
China is spending hundreds of billions of dollars annually in an effort to become a leader in biomedical research. But some experts worry that medical researchers in China are stepping over ethical boundaries long accepted in the West.
The scientific community must not rely exclusively on the impact factors of journals.
Funding agencies should highlight their roles as risk managers to underpin public trust.
Scientific research is awesome-we read it, we build upon it, we innovate with it, and we love it. But the process of getting research from the scientists who spend months or years with their data to the academics who want to read it can be messy.
Investigating fraud is hard work, and it is easier for journal editors to ignore the problem and perpetuate the myth that peer review of trial reports ensures their scientific quality.
Would we worry a little more about academic freedom—about his right to hold an unpopular view and still be a member of the academic community?
To realize the full potential of large data sets, researchers must agree on better ways to pass data around, says Martin Bobrow.
What lessons does the Swiss ambivalence towards European Union hold for the UK?
If faculties across the US don’t take a very public and aggressive stand in defense of their colleagues in Wisconsin, there will be little to stop the process of complete corporatization of higher education.
The DORA Declaration points out that using the Journal Impact Factor as a proxy measure for the value or quality of specific research and individual scientists leads to biased research assessment. How can we resist misusing metrics?
The case of Switzerland is a clear example of how a "no" vote could damage UK science.
ERC President statement on reported comments by ERC Scientific Council member
Researchers face pressure to hype and report selectively, says Dorothy Bishop.
