Three years on, scientist mums implore universities, funding agencies and publishers to heed calls to account for COVID-19 disruptions.
Pressing global challenges including the climate emergency, biodiversity loss, food security and future global health crises will require collaboration.
Integration of lab notebook tool will help researchers enrich their data and make it more suitable for reuse
Universities are drowning in digital information. It's time senior leaders made openness – and its consequences – their concern.
Open science is increasingly becoming a policy focus and paradigm for all scientific research. Ismael Rafols, Ingeborg Meijer and Jordi Molas-Gallart argue that attempts to monitor the transition to open science should be informed by the values underpinning this change, rather than discrete indicators of open science practices.
New approach to peer review proves popular with authors, with very similar acceptance rates for male and female last authors, but with higher acceptance rates for late-career researchers compared to their early- and mid-career colleagues.
The economists say more frequent use of up-front experiments would result in more effective environmental policymaking in areas ranging from pollution control to timber harvesting across the world.
Scientific papers containing lots of specialized terminology are less likely to be cited by other researchers.
Competitive agency positions offer balanced and rewarding science careers.
As the first national network of early-career researchers marks its 21st birthday, the founders of Hungary's describe how and why they set up theirs in 2019.
For a country often celebrated for its composers, digital statecraft and quietly radical governance, Estonia has now achieved something even more improbable; according to a new analysis of global citation data, this nation of 1.3 million has become the world’s third most scientifically wealthy country.
A new study suggests that scientists must embrace not fear Twitter.
As a researcher who gets such severe criticism, you have to go through the 5 stages of grief...
Recent studies highlight why policy changes are needed to make science more receptive to novelty, our columnist writes.
Draft report from biosecurity panel examining “gain-of-function” research policy gets mixed response from outside experts.
Global South scientists say that an open-access movement led by wealthy nations deprives them of credit and undermines their efforts.
Evidence overwhelmingly shows structural barriers to women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields, and suggests that the onus cannot be on women alone to confront the gender bias in our community. Here, I share my experience as a scientist and a woman who has collected data during more than ten years of scientific training about how best to navigate the academic maze of biases and barriers.
While the U.S. president is calling for suspending patents on COVID-19 vaccines, experts at UNESCO are quietly working on a more ambitious plan: a new global system for sharing scientific knowledge that would outlast the current pandemic.
We surveyed 2,000 researchers and practitioners about what they want from academic societies; here’s what they told us.
His experiences on a panel reviewing Canadian grant allocation has convinced Jonathan Grant that the evidence base for current practice needs serious reinforcement.
For years university researchers have complained that the publishing giant has driven up the costs of journals. Now, as data-sharing becomes more valuable, the company’s shifting focus is raising new concerns.
Self-citations, if left unchecked, can have a negative impact on the scientific workforce, the way that we publish new knowledge, and ultimately the course of scientific advance.
