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A bit more than a month ago, I arrived in Ann Arbor, Michigan, to spend my summer working with some of the wonderful data sets being collected at the Institute for Social Research of the University of Michigan and to enjoy the unique flair of a US college town (why does it smell like weed everywhere?)
The highest-earning academics aren’t necessarily those who do the most research.
Ignored, Scorned…Vindicated. The maverick scientists whose heretical ideas were ultimately proven correct.
Emmanuel Macron, President of France invites all responsable citizens to come to France in order to Make Our Planet Great Again and work on climate change.
Disruption isn’t the only approach.
Interviewing Dr David Savage.
A history of the relationship between commercial interests, academic prestige and the circulation of research.
Journal suppression is an effective tool for reducing high rates of self-citation, even years after a title is reintroduced.
Website aiming to map the landscape of initiatives and activity in the development of Research Objects, an emerging approach to the publication, and exchange of scholarly information on the Web.
His nuclear research helped a judge determine that former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko had been assassinated – likely on Putin’s orders.
A review of top journals in 18 fields show they are on a variety of platforms, suggesting cognitive burden for users which may be driving them to aggregated options with unified user experiences.
PLoS One's reporting guidelines as tools to enhance reproducibility.
Journal publishing can no longer keep up with the pace of scientific research.
Open Science Fair 2017 is having its first opening international conference in Athens, Greece, 6-8 September 2017.
A move into industry after a PhD may not bring immediate financial rewards, but it pays to know your strengths.
Papr allows you to rate abstracts and find Twitter users who share your interests.
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.
A significant weight is linked to ‘impact points’ – a similar metric to the widely discredited journal impact factor.
The OA Journal Starter Kit has all the information you'll need to get a new open access journal up and running.
Jeffrey Beall is back after a five-month silence, with criticism for universities as well as fake publishers.
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.
Plagiarism. Cheating. Lying. Should these scientists get a second chance?
The right approach and a little extra effort will help improve your scientific literacy.
In May 2017, we sat down with ECS journal editors Robert Savinell and Dennis Hess at the 231st ECS Meeting.
What can we do to promote the productive use of preprints in biology?
Avoiding the r-word would make it easier for researchers to correct the literature after an honest mistake.
Learn the skills to supercharge your next audit, quality improvement or research project.
