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We can all recognise the ambitious researcher at the conference who is anxious to advertise their own work while affecting interest in the keynote speaker’s presentation. It resonates with my current work on academic self-promotion via university profile pages. And I start to wonder, is a new academic habitus is beginning to emerge?
HHMI, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Wellcome Trust, and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation announce the International Research Scholars Program which aims to support up to 50 outstanding early career scientists worldwide.
Empowering the Next Generation to Advance Open Access, Open Education and Open Data.
There is increasing support in the scholarly communications community for “flipping” the standard journal publishing model from subscription-based to “gold” open access...
The replicability of psychological research is surprisingly low. Why? In this blog post I present new evidence showing that questionable research practices contributed to failures to replicate psyc…
You all know about publication bias, don't you? Sure you do. It's the tendency to publish research that has bold, affirmative results and ignore research that concludes there's nothing going on.
Scientific journal policies, physics' head start with arXiv, and differences in the culture of the two disciplines may all play a role.
The way that researchers communicate their work has not changed significantly in the last few centuries; academic publishing still relies on journal articles an…
How can research funders ensure ‘unlucky’ applications are handled more appropriately?
Why does the impact factor continue to play such a consequential role in academia? Alex Rushforth and Sarah de Rijcke look at how considerations of the metric enter in from early stages of research…
Fields Medal-winning Cambridge mathematician Sir Timothy Gowers and a team of colleagues have recently launched a new editor-owned Open Access (OA) journal for mathematics.
There are three vectors of failure that can be addressed by better technology: time, cost, and the quality of the output itself.
The near-romantic spirit of adventure and exploration that inspired young scientists of my own and earlier generations has become tarnished.
Women Also Know Stuff is a website dedicated to promoting the work of women political scientists.
Anyone who looks at international rankings has noticed that Switzerland is rising rapidly up the global academic hierarchy. Sweden and the Netherlands are close behind. This is no coincidence.
A look at the PLoS ONE paper on a hand designed by “the Creator”
How to do great research, get it published, and improve health outcomes.
Royal Society to make ORCIDs mandatory for its journals.
BMC editors show that the quality of peer review is slightly higher in BMC Infectious Diseases that operates open peer review compared to BMC Microbiology operating single-blind peer review.
Is "Precision Medicine" another case of rebranding, as chemistry has morphed into nanotech?
GigaScience launched a project providing an alternative way to give authors credit for their work, contributing more to collaboration, transparency and better data.
PLOS ONE increases author publication costs rates in 10%.
It’s widely recognised that the established scholarly publishers skim an awful lot of money off the top of research budgets.
In theory, science isn't just self-interested. We're all driven by curiosity and pure motives to strive together to unlock the secrets of the universe and solve problems.But it's for others to determine whether or not we've unlocked or solved anything.
The Web was invented to enable scientists to collaborate.
Much of our contemporary approach to publishing research began with the launch of that journal, but what does the future hold?
The cooperation will expose to Altmetric the metadata of all the Paperity articles for proper identification. In return, Altmetric will track social mentions of these articles and measure online attention they receive, with calculation of Altmetric score.
