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In the three months following the Initiative for Open Citations' launch, the percentage of articles with open reference data has moved from 40% to over 45%.
When comparing journals using citation-based metrics, the percentage of highly cited papers is more informative than the average number of citations.
Exciting new discoveries get all the attention — leaving just-as-important negative results in the dust. And fixing the problem is easier said than done.
Group will explore opportunities to disseminate MIT knowledge as widely as possible.
How are scholars and researchers working to restore confidence in peer-reviewed science?
Sparrho is developing a free platform to find and share research publications and patents.
The current funding climate certainly doesn’t favour changes, but that doesn’t mean that change isn’t possible.
The market is dominated by just a few publishers who exercise their power ruthlessly.
A guide intended to help research funders develop open policies that advance their organizational values.
Our work helps answer some of society's greatest challenges, but it's usually conveyed with technical language in journals most citizens never see.
In a decentralized architecture, anyone has the ability to download and re-host data without changing it's permanent identifier.
Posting scientific papers online, free to the public, seems like a great idea. But it's more complicated than it sounds.
Younger researchers may be particularly deterred by the fees associated with gold open access.
Significance thresholds and the crisis of unreplicable research
Why breaking down walls between different academic disciplines could enhance our understanding of why research evidence does − or doesn’t − make it into policy.
Supporting efforts to help do better science, build community around projects or develop tools.
AI systems spot new particles, see galaxies, sense the public mood from social media.
Two hundred years after her death, Jane Austen commands a cultural empire with her six novels at the center. It raises the question: Why her, as opposed to someone else?
Just a hunch? Hardly. Think germ theory, atomic theory and the theory of evolution.
A working group aiming to advance scientific research and discovery, promote technology that assists the scientific and academic communities, and make research available worldwide for the good of all humanity.
