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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.

Designing a New Type of Journal Metric

Designing a New Type of Journal Metric

At the Researcher to Reader conference, a volunteer project called Project Cupcake was launched to define a new suite of indicators to help researchers judge publishers, rather than the other way around.

Science, Engineering, and Health Doctorates in the Workforce

Science, Engineering, and Health Doctorates in the Workforce

Exploring the diverse pathways traveled by science, engineering, and health doctorates as they progress through their careers.

Gender Equality Figures Promising but Not the Full Story

Gender Equality Figures Promising but Not the Full Story

Relying just on numbers to assess gender equality is insufficient because companies and researchers are smart enough to game the system.

Understanding Collaborative Tools

Understanding Collaborative Tools

In this interview, we have a discussion with the co-founder of PaperHive, Alexander Naydenov about the impact PaperHive has had on ESL authors.

Why We Need Centralized Services

Why We Need Centralized Services

While preprints have been around since before arXiv.org launched in 1991, fields outside of physics are starting to push for more early sharing of research data, results and conclusions.