Pay disparities between female and male PhD holders in the United States exist across almost all fields of science and engineering, according to a report from the US National Science Foundation (NSF).

Paper advising universities to provide early-career researchers with temporal space for research and networking, facilitate stays at other universities, inform them about career success factors, and tailor faculty development programmes to the distinct stages of academic careers.

Metrics from different sources are compared in two studies published as preprints. The research indicated that altmetrics, as currently framed, are significantly weaker indicators of research quality - as measured by expert peers’ assessments - than traditional metrics.

Analysis suggesting that trustworthiness of published science in a given field is influenced by false positive rate, and pressures for positive results. We find decreasing available funding has negative consequences for resulting trustworthiness, and examine strategies to combat propagation of irreproducible science.

Style guide presents central principles, issues, and innovations regarding open access citations.

Using newly available open access status data, year-on-year open access levels are explored across research fields, languages, countries, institutions, funders and topics, and the resulting patterns are related to disciplinary, national and institutional contexts.

On the role of different stakeholders on how to collectively improve the process of scholarly communications not only for preprints, but other forms of scholarly contributions.

An article addressing the constant struggle to improve science communication.

Automatic identification of topics from the classification of research publications.

A paper providing a bibliometric analysis of Zenodo records by using different metrics for citedness, including citation, usage, and altmetrics. 

Article exploring the journal peer review process, examining how the reviewing process might itself contribute to papers, leading them to be more highly cited and to achieve greater recognition.

Article documenting increases in research output quantity - accompanied by decreases in quality - near the time of government-set deadlines for university evaluations.

Article enumerating five characteristics that a scientific code in computational science should possess.

Article showing that the perceived efficacy and efficiency of data reuse are strong predictors of reuse behavior, and that the perceived importance of data reuse corresponds to greater reuse.

For science to progress, we have to accept the inevitability of error.

International collaboration improves the impact of average research papers, whereas more government funding tends to have a small adverse effect when comparing OECD countries.

Ensuring appropriate credit and recognition in increasingly collaborative research involving multiple investigators and research groups.

Towards a fully-fledged policy proposal, including issues of cost and fairness.

Gender gaps in grant success rates were significantly larger when there was an explicit review focus on the principal investigator.

Tougher editorial standards and/or biased referee assignment may force women to write better, and may also reduce their productivity.

Study finds that men speak twice as often as women do at colloquiums, a difference that can't be explained away by rank, speaker pool composition or women's interest in giving talks.

ReScience resides on GitHub where each new implementation of a computational study is made available together with comments, explanations, and software tests.

Incentives and Rewards to engage in Open Science Activities.

Time series and international data are also included.

A primer on the most relevant, urgent, and probable human rights impacts for the ICT sector and opportunities for positive impact.

Survey finds that women are more prone to recognizing honorary co-authors in papers, but less likely to pad citation lists.

Overall satisfaction with the peer review system used by scholarly journals seems to strongly vary across disciplines.

Nature investigates how many papers really end up without a single citation.