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.

Self-citations, if left unchecked, can have a negative impact on the scientific workforce, the way that we publish new knowledge, and ultimately the course of scientific advance.

A quantitative analysis of contemporary publishing patterns in the humanities, as well as a conceptual account of the historical relationship of publishing practices to the modern research university.

Established publishers have a strong motivation to hype claims of predation as damaging to the scholarly and scientific endeavour.

Guidelines for active and efficient data sharing between those generating data and those analyzing it.

Measuring the veracity of scientific reports by citation analysis.

Understanding the research dynamics preceding the emergence of new areas.