In the effort to keep ourselves academically pure, we’ve also become largely irrelevant in molding the most important social enterprises of our era.

Science funding shouldn't serve political interests.

While The Conversation is built around a journalistic model, there is a big growth in online, open-access journals each with different approaches to peer review.

When a handful of authors were caught reviewing their own papers, it exposed weaknesses in modern publishing systems. Editors are trying to plug the holes.

Director Jeremy Farrar on new plans to support more young scientists and ambitious projects, large and small.

Technology has helped so many industries evolve over the past few decades, but scientific publishing, surprisingly, has hardly changed since the first journal article in 1665.

Problems and limitations of the traditional and alternative peer review methods.

One of Swartz' lawyers, writes about the spiteful and unreasonable charges that led to his suicide—and MIT's gutless support of his prosecutors.

Scholarly articles, filled with indubitable knowledge and analysis, only exist for the general public behind pricey paywalls. So one lecturer is advocating for them to be free of charge.

Ingredients to win a grant: start and finish early, seek feedback and file before deadline.

On the implications of academics being monitored in ever more and increasingly disparate aspects of work.

The current incentive structure often leads to dead-end studies-but there are ways to fix the problem.

Horizon 2020 has a budget of £63bn, but don’t expect a share unless you’re in one of the wealthiest countries and have a string of articles published in top journals.

Christoph Keese, Manager at Axel Springer publishing house, published his experiences of living in Silicon Valley in a book.

Independent replication of studies before publication may reveal sources of unreliable results.

Ever look at a research paper and wonder how the half-dozen or more authors contributed to the work?

In the 25 years since the collapse of communism, the countries of central and Eastern Europe have each carved their own identity in science.

Overly optimistic investments in scientific fields, research methods and technologies generate episodes comparable to those experienced by financial markets prior to crashing.

Big-data boondoggles and brain-inspired chips are just two of the things we’re really getting wrong

ESOF through the eyes of young scientists

Europe's brain drain problem is becoming a major crisis.

U.S. science lobbyists coined the phrase "innovation deficit" last year

John P. A. Ioannidis and colleagues asked the most highly cited biomedical scientists to score their top-ten papers in six ways.

As monitoring of scholars' performance, time and output increases, so do reservations about its value and effectiveness

Not necessarily at odds.

Accounting and working with budget numbers isn't always that boring as it appears to be, especially if it's spiced up with marketing. A good example is the debate on the budget of Horizon 2020.

There’s been a very sharp increase in the proportion of administrators to faculty and students in the last 30-40 years.

Universities are no longer viewed predominantly as places driven by curiosity and a thirst for knowledge. Instead, they are drivers of economic development.

Pros and cons of an alternative for today’s method of allocating research funds using peer review.

Housing industry labs in academic settings benefits all parties.