A number of authors interested in how to translate evidence into policy identify the importance of policy narrative and argue that advocates of scientific evidence need to tell good stories to grab the attention and appeal to the emotions of policymakers.

Trust that reviewers will treat manuscripts received for peer review as confidential communications is an essential tenet of peer review. New results suggest that breaches of this trust do occur.

A paper arguing that researchers could, on average, maintain current PhD student and Postdoc employment levels, and still have at their disposal a moderate to considerable budget for travel and equipment, depeding on the country.

Instead of making scientists compete for grants based on project proposals, research funding could simply be divided equally among all ‘qualified’ researchers, according to a new paper.

More than 26 percent of papers identified as systematic reviews or meta-analyses contained spin. This figure rose to up to 84 percent in papers reporting on nonrandomised trials.

73% of ERC projects evaluated have made breakthroughs or major scientific advances.

Scientific abstracts have become less readable over the past 130 years, in part because recent texts include more general scientific jargon than older texts.

Do lay people and scientists themselves recognize that scientists are human and therefore prone to human fallibilities such as error, bias, and even dishonesty?

Study finds faulty research creates a significant drop in use of prior published work.

An evidence-based review.

Paper outlining the UK’s objectives for an ambitious science and innovation agreement with the EU.

Data-driven methods have come to dominate many scientific fields, but many fields exhibit distressingly low rates of reproducibility.

Most PhD students in the biological sciences will not go on to become academics.

This study demonstrates that openly shared data can increase the scale of scientific studies conducted by data contributors, and can recruit scientists from a broader range of disciplines.

A systematic review of definitions of “open peer review” or “open review”, to create a corpus of 122 definitions.

How to provide the skills researchers need?

An analysis using the CWTS Leiden Ranking data.

How cryptocurrencies may generate capital for scientific funding via dividend reinvestment.

The future of data science education in a data democratized world.

Free online tools for networking, data sharing and measuring research impact.

No generalizable gold OA citation advantage at journal level.

A unified definition of open peer review – an author and reviewer in conversation

Big Science and cross‐disciplinary collaborations have reshaped the intellectual structure of research areas. A number of works have tried to uncover this hidden intellectual structure.

Enthusiasm for using Twitter as a source of data in the social sciences extends to measuring the impact of research with Twitter data being a key component in the new altmetrics approach.

Cultural differences between industry and academia can create or increase difficulties in reproducing research findings.

The landscape of the cash-per-publication reward policy in China and reveal its trend since the late 1990s.

A forgotten experiment from the 1960s.

New paper illustrates the brutal and sexist comments faced by women in economics, and likely other fields as well.

When comparing journals using citation-based metrics, the percentage of highly cited papers is more informative than the average number of citations.