A new white paper from Sage shows that social and behavioral science researchers want their work to make societal impact, but don’t perceive their institutions as supportive of that goal. 

This article advocates for a closer study of the forms of citizenship nurtured among individual participants in citizen science (CS) projects by highlighting some salient features of CS in China.

Can word patterns from grant abstracts predict National Science Foundation (NSF) funding? The data describe a clear relationship between word patterns and funding magnitude: Grant abstracts that are longer than the average abstract, contain fewer common words, and are written with more verbal certainty receive more money. 

By forming a pool of funding applicants who have minimal qualification levels and then selecting randomly within that pool, funding agencies could avoid biases, disagreement and other limitations of peer review.

As open access (OA) to publications continues to gather momentum, we should continuously question whether it is moving in the right direction.

A survey suggests that achievement invokes gendered stereotypes that penalize women for having good grades, creating unequal returns to academic performance at labor market entry.

3 case studies that highlight the challenges surrounding decisions about how––and how best––to make things open.

A survey of 2,955 readers of 40 randomly selected science blogs.

Science popularization inclines laypeople to underrate their dependence on experts.

Using the “#arseniclife” controversy as a case study, we examine the roles of blogs and Twitter in post-publication review.

This research investigates the relationship between open science and public engagement.

An analysis of the essential tension identifies institutional forces that sustain tradition and suggestions of policy interventions to foster innovation.

Scientific dishonesty essentially results from an incentive problem.