Article underlines the risks of distributing excessive honors or resources to people who, at the end of the day, could have been simply luckier than others. Policy hypotheses are addressed to show the most efficient strategies for public funding of research in order to improve meritocracy, diversity and innovation.

Findings suggest that while metrics are introduced to spur virtuous behaviours, when not properly designed they favour the usage of questionable practices.

Tracking researchers and their outputs: new insights from ORCIDs.

Countries that are generally more egalitarian, or that have institutions more conductive to equality, have a lower gender performance gap in math, suggesting that this gap is partly shaped by more general societal inequalities.

This article explores the value of the scholarly database Dimensions from an impact assessment perspective. The results include high correlations between citation counts from Scopus and Dimensions.

In one of the largest surveys of researchers about research data (with over 7,700 respondents), Springer Nature finds widespread data sharing associated with published works and a desire from researchers that their data are discoverable.

Analyzing Open Access levels across all countries and fields of research with Google Scholar data.

Overview of recent evidence suggesting that the integrity crisis narrative is mistaken - a narrative of epochal changes and empowerment of scientists would be more accurate, inspiring, and compelling.

Given that science is the key driver of human progress, improving the efficiency of scientific investigation and yielding more credible and more useful research results can translate to major benefits.

New guidelines from many journals requiring authors to provide data and code postpublication upon request is found to be an improvement over no policy, but currently insufficient for reproducibility.

Women in STEM jobs are more likely than their male counterparts to have experienced discrimination in the workplace and to believe that discrimination is a major reason there are not more women in STEM.

On the inadequacy and lack of transparency of most research institutions’ responses to allegations of research misconduct.

Widespread adoption of preregistration will increase distinctiveness between hypothesis generation and hypothesis testing and will improve the credibility of research findings.

The United States and South Korea have the highest tendencies for novel science. China has become a leader in favoring newer ideas when working with basic science ideas and research tools, but is still slow to adopt new clinical ideas. Many locations remain far behind the leaders in terms of their tendency to work with novel ideas.

Study finding that women authors have been persistently underrepresented in high-profile journals.

Study finds "strikingly high" rates of depression and anxiety, with many reporting little help or support from supervisors.

To understand how false news spreads, Vosoughi et al. used a data set of rumor cascades on Twitter from 2006 to 2017. About 126,000 rumors were spread by ∼3 million people. False news reached more people than the truth; the top 1% of false news cascades diffused to between 1000 and 100,000 people, whereas the truth rarely diffused to more than 1000 people. Falsehood also diffused faster than the truth.

Reflections upon the problems encountered when writing women in mathematics into Wikipedia.

No agreement among reviewers regarding the quality of 25 NIH grant applications in either their qualitative or quantitative evaluations.

Reasons to adopt the ORCID identifier and accept the CRediT taxonomy.

Study found that 1) Women authors have been persistently underrepresented in high-profile journals, and 2) The percent of female first and last authors is negatively associated with a journal's impact factor.

Articles on gender bias are funded less often and published in journals with a lower Impact Factor than articles on comparable instances of social discrimination.

An overview of the landscape of online data infrastructures, and highlight the key points to consider when using open data.

A three-year endeavor to learn more about the complex and evolving relationship between scientists and the public.

Review of recent developments in the science of science, using large-scale data on the production of science to search for universal and domain-specific patterns.

With some 173,000 articles during the period 2011-2015, Switzerland produced 1% of worldwide publications. It is therefore in the top 20 countries of all sizes that publish the most scientific articles.

Ideas about what research culture might look like in future, gathered from 20 events held by the Royal Society in 15 locations with over 1,000 people and 2,000 hours of face-to-face conversations. 

Recommendations to facilitate the implementation of guiding targets in research institutions and higher education establishments as requested by the Council of the EU.

The present paper takes its place in the stream of studies that analyze the effect of interdisciplinarity on the impact of research output. Unlike previous studies, in this study the...

While rates of productivity were broadly similar, citation rates were found to be higher for transdisciplinary students, as were indicators of collaboration such as co-authorship.