Significant differences between genders which may put women at a disadvantage when pursuing an academic career in mathematics.

Progress update from symposium sponsors: The Academy of Medical Sciences, the BBSRC, the MRC and Wellcome Trust.

A paper that suggests that the imposition of arbitrary manuscript length limits discourages the publication of more impactful studies.

A selection of analyses and articles about open data.

Maintaining Scientific Integrity in a Climate of Perverse Incentives and Hypercompetition.

On the importance of identifying variables explaining the underlying differences in individual reviewer decision-making.

This article describes ten simple rules for digital data storage that grew out of a long discussion among instructors for the Software and Data Carpentry initiatives.

Activity report from WikiCite 2016 (Berlin, 25-26 May 2016).

BioBlocks is an open-source web-based visual development environment for describing and execute experimental protocols on local robotic platforms or remotely i.e. in the cloud. It aims to serve as a 'de facto' open standard for programming protocols in Biology.

A word frequency analysis of 874,411 English article titles to assess the likelihood that research on obscure (rarely researched) topics is less cited.

How do European countries use open data? Who are the trend setters? And what impact does open data have on our economy & society? A first report looked at Open Data Maturity and Readiness.

The paper shows how scientists in a variety of disciplines use social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, or blogs, to exchange scientific knowledge.

The League of European Research Universities analyses trends in citizen science, formulates actionable guidelines for scientists and gives recommendations for universities, policymakers and funders.

First report and recommendations on the European Open Science Cloud.

Climate change, biodiversity loss, antibiotic resistance, and other global challenges pose major collective action problems: A group benefits from a certain action, but no individual has sufficient incentive to act alone.

The Nobel Prize epitomizes the winner-takes-all economics of credit allocation and distorts the history of science by personalizing discoveries that are truly made by groups of individuals.

On the Relationship between Research Productivity and Impact

A collection of case studies on various aspects of interdisciplinarity in science.

Academic social networks may get users hooked on them, like addicted academics, transforming what should only be a means into an end in itself.

A Cross-Sectional Study

A new survey shoots down the idea that early-career researchers aresomehow more likely to be digital natives and therefore more apt to conduct computational social science than those whose PhDs were issued more than a decade ago.

Switzerland, Singapore and the United States remain the three world’s most competitive economies.

This article describes some of the ways that identifiers can help to unlock the potential of open research.

This study investigates whether bias with single-blind review is greatest in a setting of author or institutional prestige.

Can we as a community provide citizen scientists worldwide a chance to publish open access peer reviewed articles without significant cost through a competitive publication fee subsidy scheme where each application is reviewed by the national science funding agency?

Current trends indicate that research is starting to become a preserve of the privileged.

Concerns about data sharing patient-level data from clinical trials.

Poor research design and data analysis encourage false-positive findings. Such poor methods persist despite perennial calls for improvement, suggesting that they result from something more than just misunderstanding.

This paper presents a brief overview of emerging policies to open up access to research data in the United States.

This Ipsos MORI report presents the findings of a 2016 survey commissioned by the Office for Life Sciences to understand current public awareness of, and attitudes towards, the use of animals in research.