Laboratory heads need training, support and accountability to connect people across cultures.

Plan U: A proposal to achieve universal access to scientific and medical research via funder preprint mandates.

Quantitative performance ratings are ubiquitous in modern organizations — from businesses to universities — yet there is substantialevidence of bias against women in suchratings. This study examines how gender inequalities in evaluations dependon the design of the tools used to judge merit. 

Brigitte Van Tiggelen and Annette Lykknes spotlight female researchers who discovered elements and their properties.

The newish 'quarterly review of science' sometimes muddies the waters between science and political ideology. It is funded by Peter Thiel.

In 2014, microbiologists began a study that they hope will continue long after they're dead.

There is the accumulated evidence from multiple studies of the disadvantage women in science suffer, with specific reference to the fields of anthropology, ecology and evolution

Wiley claim they are committed to moving towards greater openness and reproducibility of research, including increasing transparency in peer review

Robert Kiley, Head of Open Research, Wellcome and Michael Markie, Publishing Director, F1000 highlight Wellcome Open Research's achievements after two years of publishing. 

Seemingly owned by an Oxbridge Essays shareholder, company offers up to 100,000 words of 'model writing assistance'.

How has the open data movement matured over 2018 and what opportunities does it create for publishers in 2019? 

An existential threat. That's what scientific societies supported by journal subscriptions call Plan S. 

More than 1 million studies are now downloaded from the site every month, mostly in neuroscience, bioinformatics and genomics.

Scientists with first-hand experience of rejection offer their advice.

I write to provide feedback in an individual capacity on the Plan S implementation guidelines.

People often suffer from an 'illusion of knowledge,' write the authors of a new study that finds that people who hold the most extreme views about genetically modified foods know the least.

New studies find variation by departments, with many findings of significant rates of depression and anxiety.

Concern for and interest in research integrity has increased significantly during recent decades, both in academic and in policy discourse.

SSH is crucial for succcess of programmes. These guidelines provide useful tools for those who deal - in one way or another - with research funding programmes.

 When the year began, the world's largest academic publisher, Elsevier, had increased their annual profits, with an operating profit approaching US$1.2 billion in science, technology, and medicine - a profit margin of over 36%. By year's end, a hefty chunk of the world's research community was walking away from big subscription deals with Elsevier and others. 

The necessity of developing a public infrastructure for open access, its benefits and the obstacles to reaching this goal.

Details of the contract between the German consortium DEAL and Wiley reveal that the transformative nature of this new big deal may come at a high cost. 

A new analysis of biomedical awards over five decades shows men receive more cash and more respect for their research than women do.

A guide to making visualizations that accurately reflect the data, tell a story, and look professional.

If South Africa truly wants to encourage good research, it must stop paying academics by the paper.

Trees are supposed to slow global warming, but growing evidence suggests they might not always be climate saviours.

Scientists dive into trove of insurance claims data to determine what causes most diseases.

Glaciers are crucial sources of water for people and crops in Central Asia. But global warming is causing glaciers there and around the world to shrink every year.

Elsevier argues that they make their citation data available through their subscription database, Scopus, and that “[…] Elsevier cannot make such a large corpus of data, which it has added significant value to, available for free."

ORCID has provided peer review functionality for going on three years. Peer review recognition is part of our broader commitment to improve recognition for all research contributions. It’s something that reviewers feel strongly about too.