Stop Submitting Papers
We should write our draft, go over it with our co-authors, and then put it on a preprint server. And wait. After a year, when we had the opportunity to share this paper with colleagues, then we can submit it.
Wanted: Academics Wise to the Needs of Government
Funders should not support policy-relevant work that treats policy impact as an afterthought.
Sharing Research Data and Findings Relevant to the Novel Coronavirus (nCoV) Outbreak
Sharing Research Data and Findings Relevant to the Novel Coronavirus (nCoV) Outbreak
A call on researchers, journals and funders to ensure that research findings and data relevant to this outbreak are shared rapidly and openly to inform the public health response and help save lives.
Twitter Transformed Science Communication During the Pandemic. Will It Last?
Twitter Transformed Science Communication During the Pandemic. Will It Last?
COVID-19 researchers have embraced the platform. For many others, tweeting has yet to translate into professional rewards.
How to combat distrust of science
The surprising power of the psychology of consensus.
Accountability in academic publishing
Currently, there is no record of previous submission of a paper to other journals and the comments it might have received in the journey to the final publication. A paper that might have been rejected by three or four journals goes into press, and people hear about the results without any of the background scientific debate and conversation that led to this publicatio.
Great Literature Is Surprisingly Arithmetic
A good book evokes a variety of emotions as you read. Turns out, though, that almost all novels and plays provide one of only six “emotional experiences” from beginning to end—a rags-to-riches exuberance, say, or a rise and fall of hope.
Imagining The "Open" University: Sharing Scholarship to Improve Research and Education
Imagining The "Open" University: Sharing Scholarship to Improve Research and Education
This Perspective article argues that universities should take action to support open scholarship that benefits society and to return to their core missions of knowledge dissemination, community engagement, and public good.
Webinar: Getting Up to Speed on Repository Discovery Services
Having trouble keeping track of the increasing number of discovery services? Want to learn more about how they work, who are their main users, and how to ensure your repository content is visible in these services? You are invited to participate in a webinar that will feature three of these discovery services.
The Evidence is Clear: if Countries Act Together, They Can Suppress Covid
As England prepares to lock down again, it should look to the example set by east Asian and African nations, says professor of global public health Devi Sridhar
Science History: Yue Xiong's Great Leap
Yue Xiong is a microbiologist who emigrated to the United States from China to complete his doctorate in 1989. He is the chief scientific officer of pharmaceutical company Cullgen and was a professor of biochemistry and biophysics at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This article follows Yue Xiong’s quest for education and is based on an interview from the Science History Institute’s oral history archive conducted in 2000 by historian William Van Benschoten.
Germany Seeks ‘Big Flip’ in Publishing Model
Over the last 2 years more than 150 German libraries, universities, and research institutes have formed a united front trying to force academic publishers into a new way of doing business.
One in Five Genetics Papers Contains Errors Thanks to Microsoft Excel
Autoformatting in Microsoft Excel has caused many a headache—but now, a new study shows that one in five genetics papers in top scientific journals contains errors from the program.
ELife Launches Executable Research Articles for Publishing Computationally Reproducible Results
ELife Launches Executable Research Articles for Publishing Computationally Reproducible Results
Authors with a published eLife paper can now enrich their work with embedded code blocks and computed outputs to make their results more transparent, interactive and reproducible.
What a Personal Saga Reveals About Scientists' Lives - and About Science Itself
Two scientists allowed Nature to chronicle their lives for three years. Their story speaks to the epic professional and personal struggles involved in establishing a career in research.
Scientists experiment with crowdsourcing
Labs at Yale are researching mosquito sterilization and the abilities of rubber-decomposing fungus, all without grants. As grants from federal organizations like the National Institutes of Health become increasingly difficult to secure, researchers at Yale and across the nation are turning to a new source of support.
When did we take the "social" out of science?
The push for STEM should not drown out the importance of humanities research.
How AI Detectives Are Cracking Open the Black Box of Deep Learning
As neural nets push into science, researchers probe back
I Hate Open Science
Blog post encourages using more specific terms to decrease ambiguity in discussions around open science.
Getting the Job: It's Not Just Who You Know, but How You Know Them
People are more likely to land high-paying jobs through friends of friends than through their close friends or family, study finds.
Chinese science needs fund formula
Fury is the word the minister of science and technology used on the weekend to describe his feelings about the misappropriation of scientific research funds.
Wiley Becomes First Major Publisher to Require ORCID IDs for Submitting Authors
Wiley Becomes First Major Publisher to Require ORCID IDs for Submitting Authors
John Wiley & Sons Inc. announced today plans to require ORCID iDs as part of the manuscript submission process for a large number of journals. Beginning in winter 2016, more than 500 Wiley journals using ScholarOne Manuscripts will require the submitting author (only) to provide an ORCID identifier (iD) when submitting a manuscript. Wiley is proud to be the first major publisher to join other stakeholders that have signed ORCID’s open letter.
China Cracks Down on Fake Data in Drug Trials
Researchers and manufacturers face possible jail time — or execution — for fraudulent submissions to nation's drug agency.
The Importance of Being Second
Scientific research can be a cutthroat business, with undue pressure to publish quickly, first, and frequently. PLOS Biology is now formalizing a policy whereby manuscripts that confirm or extend a recently published study are eligible for consideration.
Moedas to pick up from 150 scientists
More than 150 scientists have been nominated as prospective members of the European Commission's Science Advice Mechanism.
Are Mega-Journals the Future, a Stepping Stone to It or a Leap into the Abyss?
Nature’s new kid on the block Scientific Reports is now the biggest journal in the world. But while such giants are currently overturning the world of scholarly publishing, their long-term future is unclear.
What are the Barriers to Post-Publication Peer Review?
At ScienceOpen, we have over 28 million article records all available for public, post-publication peer review (PPPR), 3 million of which are full-text Open Access. But is there anything we can do to increase its usage and adoption as part of a more open research culture?
STEM Degrees Rise, but Disparities Remain
Though women earn significantly more bachelor’s degrees than men, they are substantially less likely to obtain a degree in science, technology, engineering or math.
Counting is Not Enough - How Plain Language Statements Could Improve Research Assessment
Counting is Not Enough - How Plain Language Statements Could Improve Research Assessment
Academic hiring and promotion committees and funding bodies often use publication lists as a shortcut to assessing the quality of applications. In order to avoid bias towards prestigious titles, plain language statements should become a standard feature of academic assessment.
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