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The peer reviewers’ openness initiative
A new initiative published this week outlines how scientists can make a change to open science practices at an individual level.
Journals to solve 'John Smith' common name problem by requiring author IDs
In an open letter some of the largest academic publishers and scientific societies are announcing that they will not just encourage, but ultimately require, researchers to sign up with ORCID.
The 5-minute journal submission
Pathogens & Immunity promises a quick submission procedure, since it provides a reasonable flexibility about the length of the papers and authors are welcome to include reviews from other journals and their responses.
Cashing in on transparency in science
$1000 to each of the first 1000 scientists preregistering their protocols with Nosek's Center for Open Science.
Peer evaluation of science
This is a proposal for a system for evaluation of the quality of scientific papers by open review of the papers through a platform inspired by StackExchange.
As PLOS cedes some ground, a movement gathers steam
Last year "PLOS ONE" published 10% fewer papers than it did two years ago, but its editors are not alarmed.
Do "top" journals attract "too good to be true" results?
The most prestigious journals publish the least reliable science (at least when looking at the available evidence from experimental fields).
The world's most influential scientific minds
Highly Cited Researchers in 2015 according to Thomson Reuters.
Seven actionable strategies for advancing women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine
Seven actionable strategies for advancing women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine
A shortlist of recommendations to promote gender equality in science and stimulate future efforts to level the field.
How to boost scientific production?
A statistical analysis of research funding and other influencing factors.
Publishing, commerce, and the scientific ethos
Report to the Swiss Science and Innovation Council SSIC.
You want a letter? You write it for me
A few years back, I asked two colleagues for letters of support for my grant proposal. One colleague drafted a letter personally. The other, citing heavy time pressures, asked me to draft the letter myself.
Illumina bid to beat cancer with DNA tests
The DNA sequencing giant will launch a new company, Grail, to develop blood tests to detect cancer.
Unexpected, a video by the Royal Society
Fellow of the Royal Society and future President of the Royal Statistical Society, Sir David Spiegelhalter visits Dr Nicole Janz to discuss reproducibility in scientific publications.
For female scientists, mixed funding results at US agencies
A new study by a congressional watchdog agency finds that female scientists are less likely than men to receive research grants from the U.S. government.
When teamwork doesn't work for women
New evidence suggests that the underrepresentation of women reflects a systemic bias in that marketplace: a failure to give women full credit for collaborative work done with men.
Singapore lavishes big money on its scientists
Science spending in Singapore is set to surge by 18%.
World's most international universities 2016
Times Higher Education World University Rankings data reveal the top 200 most outward-looking institutions.
Open journals that piggyback on arXiv gather momentum
Peer-review platforms built around online pre-print repositories spread to astrophysics.
Should scientific papers be anonymous?
When it comes to protecting the scientific literature from bias, the safeguards that academics now use are sorely inadequate.
Big ideas for better science
We asked four researchers who made the news in 2015 what they would change about how science gets done.
Why Preventing Cancer Is Not the Priority in Drug Development
There’s more money to be made investing in drugs that will extend cancer patients’ lives by a few months than in drugs that would prevent cancer in the first place.
Why science's universal language is a problem for research
The vast majority of scientific papers today are published in English. What gets lost when other languages get left out?
Die Wissenschaft - eine weltfremde Künstlerwerkstatt
Die Menschheit steht vor großen Herausforderungen. Doch das Wissenschaftssystem bleibt starr. Das muss sich ändern.
Research and education budgets in shambles in Denmark and Finland
Recent changes in the political landscape in Northern Europe have brought some new policies that are less supportive of science and education than previously.
Choosing experiments to accelerate collective discovery
Scientists perform a tiny subset of all possible experiments. What characterizes the experiments they choose? And what are the consequences of those choices for the pace of scientific discovery?
Reproducible research practices and transparency across the biomedical literature
Reproducible research practices and transparency across the biomedical literature
Replication studies are rare and only a few had their data included in a subsequent systematic review or meta-analysis.
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