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.

New contract gives researchers access to Wiley's journals and makes their papers open access

When Sonia Vallabh lost her mother to a rare disease, she and her husband, Eric Minikel, set out to find a cure.

Leading scientist Patricia Falcone speaks with podcast host Margaret Koval about the importance of college mathematics, early research experience and clear communications.

Scientists who have historically been at a disadvantage when pursuing traditional funding sources are now the most successful at sourcing money from the public.

The field has plenty of talented women, but to reach leadership roles they must have visible and recognizable roles within medicine and in the public

We are proud to announce the release of enhancements which significantly facilitate scientific software citation and discovery.

Information-aesthetic explorations of emerging patterns in scientific citation networks. A cooperation between the Eigenfactor® Project (data analysis) and Moritz Stefaner (visualization).

2019 - At ORCID the Year of the Researcher 

Scientists say that increasingly rigorous licensing procedures have complicated research efforts - and in some cases, stopped experiments completely.