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Illusions of discovery are holding science back. But even if we wanted to do the right thing and evaluate scientific papers based on their quality, regardless of how flashy and exciting the claims of discovery may be, it’s not clear how we’d do that.
Study utilised a combination of automatic and manual annotations to quantify how an article from early 2020 changed between the preprinted and published version.
Paper concludes that metrics were applied chiefly as a screening tool to decrease the number of eligible candidates and not as a replacement for peer review.
HHMI announces the selection of 21 exceptional early career scientists as 2020 Hanna Gray Fellows to support diversity in biomedical research. The 2022 Hanna H. Gray Fellows Program competition will open later this year.
In the past few months, we've seen large commercial publishers express renewed concern that sharing author manuscripts in open repositories threatens the scholarly record because multiple versions undermine the "version of record". However, establishing and maintaining relationships to other versions of articles or research assets has already been shown to be successful in disciplinary and scholarly communities.
In recent years, numerous initiatives have highlighted linguistic biases embedded in current evaluation processes and have called for change. The DORA-hosted community discussion on multilingualism in scholarly evaluation was inspired by actions others have taken to address these issues.
A preprint promoted by a member of the UK Parliament for claiming to show that vitamin D led to an “80% reduction in need for ICU and a 60% reduction in deaths” has been removed from a server used by The Lancet family of journals.
Chemical pollution is a global threat that demands for global action, says Zhanyun Wang. An interface body similar to the IPCC could help bridge the gap between science and policy.
A Nature survey shows many scientists expect the virus that causes COVID-19 to become endemic, but it could pose less danger over time.
Unpacking each word -- rights, retention, and strategy -- enables understanding what this policy is and how it functions within the Plan S compliance framework.
Nature is polling readers about the move to online meetings during the COVID pandemic.
Experts fear false narratives about vaccines could slow down the task of inoculating people and create other problems in the future.
Contribute to covering the fees for AfricArXiv preprint hosting on the Open Science Framework (OSF).
Questioned psychology papers linger on in meta-analyses.
Join the next call on open research communication projects to share and discuss emerging projects and significant updates for ongoing ones.
At the 40th session of UNESCO’s General Conference, 193 Members States tasked the Organization with the development of an international standard-setting instrument on Open Science in the form of a UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science to be adopted by Member States in 2021.
Finding and reusing train-the-trainer materials in Social Sciences and Humanities: The SSH Training Discovery Toolkit The Training Discovery Toolkit is an inventory of various learning and training materials that trainers of different disciplines in the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) can use to find materials for re-use in their own training activities.
European Space Agency aims to take on 26 people for missions to the Moon and eventually to Mars
The UK Publisher's Association has commissioned a report that seems to be their latest attempt at painting open access to research as economically damaging to the publishing sector.
The main objective of this paper is to empirically test whether the identification of highly-cited documents through Google Scholar is feasible and reliable.
The average American spends almost one hour each day commuting to work, a number that adds up quickly.
Covid human challenge study to start in weeks and will expose adults to virus in controlled environment.
The pandemic has shown that other ways of teaching and learning are possible
English departments rethink what to call themselves in light of how diverse they've become.
Preprint servers have become an indispensable part of scholarly publishing. The next step is learning how to embrace them.
A chess program that learns from human error might be better at working with people or negotiating with them.
