A Methodological Systematic Review of 'Spin'
More than 26 percent of papers identified as systematic reviews or meta-analyses contained spin. This figure rose to up to 84 percent in papers reporting on nonrandomised trials.
What a Massive Database of Retracted Papers Reveals About Science Publishing's 'death Penalty'
What a Massive Database of Retracted Papers Reveals About Science Publishing's 'death Penalty'
Better editorial oversight, not more flawed papers, might explain flood of retractions
Impact Factor Volatility to a Single Paper: A Comprehensive Analysis of 11639 Journals
How Open Access Allows for a Greater Diversity of People to Engage with a Discussion
How Open Access Allows for a Greater Diversity of People to Engage with a Discussion
This year's open access week will be talking to a number of researchers.
Japan's Quiet Science Vs China's Megaphone Claims
Japan's technological and scientific contributions to the world are undeniable. From the invention of the blue LED that revolutionized energy efficiency
Book review
More people than ever are going to graduate school to seek a PhD these days. When they get there, they discover a bewildering environment: a rapid immersion in their discipline, a keen competition for resources, and uncertain options for their future, whether inside or outside of academia.
Celebrating the Women of EPFL's IC School: Miranda Krekovic
Rather than simply complaining about the lack of women, the researchers at EPFL decided to walk the talk by launching GirlsCoding.
Are Research Infrastructures the Answer to All Our Problems?
Embracing a global view of EU research infrastructures could boost science diplomacy and break down walls put up by divisive politics. But new rules on cooperation and more funding are needed to deliver the vision.
Changes in Funding Could Tank Quality of Ocean Heat Content Data
Changes in Funding Could Tank Quality of Ocean Heat Content Data
An uncertain funding landscape threatens the longevity of an ocean observation system critical to projecting tropical storms, sea level rise, and more.
Could Blockchain Provide the Technical Fix to Solve Science’s Crisis?
Blockchain could strengthen science’s verification process, helping to make more research results reproducible, true, and useful, due to its capacity to make digital goods immutable, transparent, and provable.
Delhi Declaration on Open Access
This declaration was drafted by a group comprising of researchers and professionals working for opening up access to research outputs for public good in India.
EUA Survey Finds Half of Europe's Universities Have Open Science Policies in Place
EUA Survey Finds Half of Europe's Universities Have Open Science Policies in Place
This report presents the findings of the 2020-2021 EUA Open Science Survey and provides evidence-based recommendations for institutions, researchers, research funders and policy makers on the transition towards Open Science.
China-US Research Collaborations Are in Decline - This is Bad News for Everyone
China-US Research Collaborations Are in Decline - This is Bad News for Everyone
Scientists say that the drop in partnerships between the scientific powerhouses will hold back research on priorities such as global warming.
Nobel winner declares boycott of top science journals
Leading academic journals are distorting the scientific process and represent a "tyranny" that must be broken, according to Randy W. Schekman who has declared a boycott on the publications.
Undue burdens
Proposed controls on foreign operations in China are a threat to scientific collaboration.
Scrutinizing the Collaboration Criterion in Research: How Do Policy Ambitions Play out in Proposals and Assessments?
Scrutinizing the Collaboration Criterion in Research: How Do Policy Ambitions Play out in Proposals and Assessments?
This study aimed to reveal how researchers describe the collaboration with partners outside the university in research proposals.
We Can Stop Sacrificing Millions of Lives for Our Own Health
The Guardian's View on Animal Testing: New technologies can reduce our reliance on animal experiments. This isn't just morally right, it could have scientific and economic benefits too
If science is going to save the world, we need to make it open
The last few weeks have been a momentum time in the sciences: not because of a breakthrough in gene therapy or quantum computing, but because world leaders have twice called for scientific papers to be made freely available to all.
Don’t Let Useful Data Go to Waste
Don’t Let Useful Data Go to Waste
Researchers must seek out others’ deposited biological sequences in community databases, urges Franziska Denk.
The Women Who Contributed to Science but Were Buried in Footnotes
In a new study, researchers uncovered female programmers who made important but unrecognized contributions to genetics.
Low publication output for female scientists
Analysis suggests that male physicists and mathematicians author nearly 50% more papers than female colleagues.
Faculty Promotion Must Assess Reproducibility
Research institutions should explicitly seek job candidates who can be frankly self-critical of their work, says Jeffrey Flier.
E.P.A. to Limit Science Used to Write Public Health Rules
A new agency rule would restrict the science that can be used in drafting health regulations by requiring researchers to turn over confidential health data.
Gagging Scientists in Florida and Missouri to Hide COVID-19 Data
Political leaders in Florida and Missouri are opting to censor scientists and bury COVID-19 data rather than use that data to protect people in their states. In Florida, state officials pressured researchers at the University of Florida to destroy COVID-19 data and prevented them from accessing stat
Stem-cell method faces fresh questions
Papers describing acid-bath technique under more scrutiny after institute’s investigation finds errors in methodology
Tracking the Evolution of Reference Resources
A new study from Oxford University Press further documents the decline of reference resources, a category of scholarly material more than ready for an innovative era in its evolution.
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