We discuss the views and experiences of our Editorial Board Members towards open peer review on this biomedical journal.

With the increasing complexities of new technologies and techniques, coupled with the specialisation of experiments, reproducing research findings has become a growing challenge.

Cross-disciplinarity is found particularly in research project proposals of fields of science with clearly overlapping content and mainly in research proposals submitted by fields of science within the humanities and social sciences.

Research Practices that May Help Increase the Proportion of True Research Findings

This paper is concerned with the measurement of citation impact and societal impact, and looks at the basis, the effects and the problems of impact measurement.

The growing impact of non-elite journals.

Video recordings of the conference entitled "The future of Europe is science". 6-7 October, Lisbon.

14-15 November, Wellcome Trust, London.

7. November, Bern.

Interviews with Nobel prize winners on being awarded the Nobel prize.

UberResearch is a software solutions company which helps funding organizations, nonprofits, and governmental institutions make more informed decisions about science funding.

It seems that if there’s a market that we ought to be thinking about, it’s postdocs. Guest Post by Phill Jones, Head of Publisher Outreach for Digital Science.

A new interview series on the Reddit social news site this year allows scientists to answer questions whose responses are read by millions of readers.

A collection of papers based on workshops at the Vitae Researcher Development International Conference, 3-4th September 2013, Manchester, UK

Collaborative browser-based tools aim to change the way researchers write and publish their papers.

The emergence of academic search engines has revived and increased the interest in the size of the academic web, since their aspiration is to index the entirety of current academic knowledge.

A study of 2011 suggests that highly tweeted articles were 11 times more likely to be highly cited than less-tweeted articles.

Reflections on Science supervised by F. Heukelom, K. Landsman and M. Hagner of ETH Zurich.

In a new report says that the government must increase taxpayer investment in research and development to match that of the UK’s competitors.

Scientific visualization is classically defined as the process of graphically displaying scientific data. However, this process is far from direct or automatic.

A scientometric analysis of the UK

Scientific debates often blur the lines between the science that is being debated and the political, moral, and legal implications that come with its societal applications. This manuscript traces the origins of this phenomenon to professional norms within the scientific discipline.

The Scientific Foresight (STOA) Unit analyses the implications and options for future policy-making in science and technology related fields for the European Parliament.

We know that those Open Access policies that work are the ones that have teeth. Both institutional and funder policies work better when tied to reporting requirements.

We explore the feasibility and consequences of a Biblioleaks event for researchers, journals, publishers, and the broader communities of doctors and the patients they serve.

Researchers have put numbers on the “file drawer” phenomenon, in which scientists abandon results that they believe journals are unlikely to publish.

Sometimes, the brightest stars in science decide to leave. Nature finds out where they go.

Annual figures: offers of admission from U.S. graduate schools to prospective international students.

Introduction to the topics being discussed at the Auckland conference on ‘Science Advice to Governments’.

A number of suggestions for the new AAAS open access journal Science Advances.