We call for bringing sanity back into scientific judgment exercises. Despite all number crunching, many judgments - be it about scientific output, scientists, or research institutions - will neither be unambiguous, uncontroversial, or testable by external standards nor can they be otherwise validated or objectified.

Women leave jobs because they feel isolated and stalled, not for family reasons.

A new organization is helping researchers explain their work and why it matters.

Sneha Kulkarni from Editage takes a look at the ever-increasing global scientific output, and asks questions about quantity versus quality.

The financial pressure that publishers impose on libraries is a worldwide concern. Gold open-access publishing with an expensive article-processing charge paid by the authors is often presented as an ideal solution to this problem. However, such a system threatens less-funded departments and even article quality.

There are 13,000 business schools on Earth. That’s 13,000 too many.

Perspectives on the benefits of open peer review, and responding to concerns.

Text and Data Mining. Or the creation of new knowledge from existing information (but not in the EU).

Contrary to commonsense belief, attempts to measure productivity through performance metrics discourage initiative, innovation and risk-taking. The entrepreneurial element of human nature is stifled by metric fixation.

Inequality is reproduced (and whiteness is institutionalized) by citation patterns as earlier periods of overt exclusion are legitimated by an almost ritualistic citation of certain thinkers.

If you are a scientist, there are many compelling reasons to openly share your source code, from reproducibility to increasing impact.