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The impact factor is academia’s worst nightmare. So much has been written about its flaws, both in calculation and application, that there is little point in reiterating the same tired points here …
In this interview with EuroScientist, Lawrence Rajendran explains why he created Matters, to change the way we communicate science.
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.
Figshare has brought science publishing into the digital age so that academics can publish and share their research fully
This week, FORCE2016 is taking place in Portland, USA. The FORCE11 yearly conference is devoted to the utilisation of technological and open science advancements towards a new-age scholarship founded on easily accessible, organised and reproducible research data.
Saying that Sci-Hub is about copyright infringement is like saying the Boston Tea Party was about late-night vandalism.
The way that researchers communicate their work has not changed significantly in the last few centuries; academic publishing still relies on journal articles an…
Ideally, in a reviewing process, it is generally easier for referees to make faster and more reliable decisions for high quality papers, which ideally and on average will later attract more citations. Therefore, it is possible that the editorial delay time—the time between dates of submission and acceptance or publication—is correlated to the number of received citations, as has been weakly confirmed by previous studies.
Letter signed by multiple leading scientists to urge the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to increase the value of abstracts in PubMed by including information about authors’ competing interests.
Bemused physicists watch biologists start biorXiv, party likes it's 1991.
Content piracy may be illegal, but price gouging is at least as despicable.
The days of open science have arrived and it is time to move from pay-to-read to free-to-read, says EU's R&D Commissioner. But publishers want to keep their subscriptions.
On the democratization of science via the Internet and the dramatic change in the communication of data and in their interpretation.
After many and long conversations among colleagues within and beyond the Scholarly Kitchen about what researchers need to know about scholarly publishing.
Meet accused hacker and copyright infringer Alexandra Elbakyan.
Authors have, in general, a positive view on open access, but other factors are more important in choosing a place of publication for an academic article.
Springer is launching a new online initiative called Change the World, One Article at a Time: Must-Read Articles from 2015. The initiative focuses on articles published in 2015 in Springer journals which deal with some of the world's most urgent challenges. Those articles which are already open access are freely available online on a permanent basis and all other articles have been made freely available until July 15, 2016.
Alexandra Elbakyan is challenging the multibillion-dollar academic publishing industry.
Interview with Ijad Madisch, co-founder and CEO of the world’s largest online network for scientists
On the role that preprints can play in disseminating research findings in the life sciences.
Scale can be achieved by broadly outsourcing the editorial process. Does this lead to a loss in quality control, and is this acceptable?
Peer review and criticism is an essential part of academic discourse, and it is why journal articles are of such high quality and rigor. But you don’t get paid for it.
Key journal performance data for 2015 and other highlights from a business that is doing a lot more than publishing.
Researchers, publishers and representatives of funding agencies gathered at ASAPBio to discuss the use of preprint publications in biology. It became clear through the discussion on Twitter with #ASAPBio that many were unclear as to the purpose of the meeting, how preprints could help or hinder junior scientists, or even what preprints are.
Over the last week, there's been a storm over the executive compensation and financials at the Public Library of Science (PLOS).
Notices should make obvious whether a withdrawal of research is the result of misconduct or a genuine mistake, says Daniele Fanelli.
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.
While we may be drawn to the fantasy of Robin Hood, it is easy to see the danger of putting one individual’s idea of right and wrong ahead of society’s democratically enforced laws.
Last week my friend Andy Kern (a population geneticist at Rutgers) went on a bit of a bender on Twitter prompted by his discovery of PLOS’s IRS Form 990 – the annual required financial filing of non-profit corporations in the United States.
We're delighted to announce a new project - ORCID DE - launched recently to foster and support ORCID adoption in Germany.
