Innovation is critical to sustained economic growth—and mathematics can help us understand how it works 

The Interdisciplinary Research Collection highlights 11 articles that exemplify the diversity of interdisciplinary research published in PLOS ONE.

Science is said to be suffering a reproducibility crisis caused by many biases. How common are these problems, across the wide diversity of research fields? We probed for multiple bias-related patterns in a large random sample of meta-analyses taken from all disciplines.

Supporting the development of new models for open research data in the digital age.

Is it reasonable to employ the ResearchGate Score as evidence of scholarly reputation?

Recommendations on best practice

Research institutions should have regular open conversations on authorship criteria and ethics and that funding agencies adopt ORCID and accept CRediT.

Choices researchers can make to stop exploiting themselves and discriminating against others.

An intellectual free-for-all doesn’t lead to the common ground on which research can build.

Scientists need funding to do their work. But a new study finds turning to industry partners taints perceptions of university research, and including other kinds of partners doesn't really help.

With exponential increases that reached 402% over a 20-year span, the spiralling cost of these large bundles rapidly put pressure on available budgets for books and journals from smaller learned societies.

We formulate ten simple rules for considering using preprints as a scientific communication mechanism.

The results of a cross-disciplinary survey show that the majority of respondents are in favour of Open Peer Review becoming mainstream scholarly practice, as they also are for other areas of Open Science, like Open Access and Open Data.

A report based on the sessions at the SpotOn London conference held at Wellcome Collection Conference centre in November 2016.

Study suggesting that journal-specific submission guidelines may encourage desirable changes in authors’ practices.

For years, there was no overview of what the total amount being paid for journal subscriptions was per institute or on a national level.

Explore the universities with the highest percentage of international students.

Urgent consideration needs to be given to the “careful stewardship” needed over the next ten years to ensure that the dividends from machine learning – the form of artificial intelligence that allows machines to learn from data.

The pervasiveness and quality of data sharing policies in the biomedical literature.

3 basic issues inherent in using tweets for research evaluation: whose tweets can be used to assess a paper, what objects can be evaluated, and how to score the paper according to each tweet.

How open source methods of working could be applied to the discovery and development of new medicines.

Analysis reveals that female researchers are over-represented on the social-media site and that mathematicians and life scientists are less likely to use it.

Evaluating the impact of the Moore Foundation Open Access new policy.

Significance thresholds and the crisis of unreplicable research

The science and engineering workforce has aged rapidly, both absolutely and relative to the workforce, which is a concern if the large number of older scientists crowds out younger scientists.

A webinar on how to access and engage with content and the importance of open access to scholarly research communication.

A matched-control analysis of papers containing problematic image duplications.

A new Council of Graduate Schools report that highlights the lack of career development support at many institutions also offers some useful resources.

Consider biomedical preclinical and clinical research, in which the trusted service involves the exchange of papers, data, software, reagents, and so on.

A systematic approach to identifying and analyzing scientists on Twitter.