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Salary Negotiation: Get What You Seek

Salary Negotiation: Get What You Seek

A move into industry after a PhD may not bring immediate financial rewards, but it pays to know your strengths.

How Do Researchers Use Social Media and Scholarly Collaboration Networks?

How Do Researchers Use Social Media and Scholarly Collaboration Networks?

Social media is not only a way for authors and publishers to disseminate research findings, it’s also increasingly being used by researchers to discover and read scientific content.

The ResearchGate Score: A Good Example of a Bad Metric

The ResearchGate Score: A Good Example of a Bad Metric

A significant weight is linked to ‘impact points’ – a similar metric to the widely discredited journal impact factor.

Why Unpaywall Will Be a Game-Changer

Why Unpaywall Will Be a Game-Changer

Recently, a new tool has come out that allows users to ‘jump the paywall’ and access research articles for free. It’s called Unpaywall, and it works by using information contained within papers.

The Non-Scientist’s Guide to Reading and Understanding a Scientific Paper

The Non-Scientist’s Guide to Reading and Understanding a Scientific Paper

The right approach and a little extra effort will help improve your scientific literacy.

How to Avoid the Stigma of a Retracted Paper? Don't Call It a Retraction

How to Avoid the Stigma of a Retracted Paper? Don't Call It a Retraction

Avoiding the r-word would make it easier for researchers to correct the literature after an honest mistake.

What Is It? (And Why Some Researchers Want It)

What Is It? (And Why Some Researchers Want It)

There is a movement within the scientific community that asks for greater collaboration between research teams. The idea is that with greater access to information, more people working separately on the same problems can solve them more efficiently and with the greatest transparency.

Bias in Distribution of K99 Awards and Faculty Hires

Bias in Distribution of K99 Awards and Faculty Hires

The biomedical research enterprise strives to be a meritocracy, but structural inequities and the reliance on nonscientific proxies such as journal impact and university prestige present roadblocks.

Reverse Engineering JCR's Self-Citation and Citation Stacking Thresholds

Reverse Engineering JCR's Self-Citation and Citation Stacking Thresholds

Now we know how suppression decisions are made, should metrics companies suppress titles at all or simply make the underlying data more transparent?

Experts Call for ‘People Before Projects’ Revamp

Experts Call for ‘People Before Projects’ Revamp

New report from influential group recommends ditching large-scale projects in favour of funding outstanding individual researchers, getting rid of submission deadlines and awarding smaller grants to make the pie go further.

Public Knowledge Project @PKP

Public Knowledge Project @PKP

Public Knowledge Project - PKP is a multi-university initiative developing (free) open source software and conducting research to improve the quality and reach of scholarly publishing.

Diamond Open Access, Societies and Mission

Diamond Open Access, Societies and Mission

In this article Robert Harington assesses the Diamond open access model for society journal publishing.

Research Transparency: 5 Questions About Open Science Answered

Research Transparency: 5 Questions About Open Science Answered

Partly in response to the so-called 'reproducibility crisis' in science, researchers are embracing a set of practices that aim to make the whole endeavor more transparent, more reliable – and better.

Is the Nature Index at Odds with DORA?

Is the Nature Index at Odds with DORA?

We find Nature Research's critical attitude towards journal impact factors, embodied in its signing of the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA; Nature 544, 394; 2017), to be inconsistent with the aims of its Nature Index.