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Humans Run Experiments, a Robot Writes the Paper

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Humans Run Experiments, a Robot Writes the Paper

The future of automated scientific writing is upon us—and that's a good thing.

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Prestigious Science Journals Struggle to Reach Even Average Reliability

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Prestigious Science Journals Struggle to Reach Even Average Reliability

Data from several lines of evidence suggest that the methodological quality of scientific experiments does not increase with increasing rank of the journal.

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India Will Skip Plan S, Focus on National Efforts in Science Publishing

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India Will Skip Plan S, Focus on National Efforts in Science Publishing

The government's "directions will be entirely determined by the interests of Indian academia and of India", according to K. VijayRaghavan, the principal scientific adviser to the Government of India.

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Study Examines How Media Around the World Frame Climate Change News

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Study Examines How Media Around the World Frame Climate Change News

While richer countries tend to frame climate change coverage as a political issue, poorer countries more often frame it as an international issue that the world at large needs to address.

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Take the Time and Effort to Correct Misinformation

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Take the Time and Effort to Correct Misinformation

Scientists should challenge online falsehoods and inaccuracies — and harness the collective power of the Internet to fight back, argues Phil Williamson.

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What Difference Do Retractions Make? An Estimate of the Epistemic Impact of Retractions on Recent Meta-analyses

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What Difference Do Retractions Make? An Estimate of the Epistemic Impact of Retractions on Recent Meta-analyses

Every year, several hundred publications are retracted due to fabrication and falsification of data or plagiarism and other breeches of research integrity and ethics. However, the extent to which a retraction requires revising previous scientific estimates and beliefs is unknown.

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The Rise of Open Access Mega-Journals

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The Rise of Open Access Mega-Journals

A graph shows the dramatic rise of open access mega-journals such as Plos One, which offer to publish papers based on their scientific soundness rather than the significance or novelty of the results, and which accept research across a broad range of disciplines.

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How Journals Are Using Overlay Publishing Models to Facilitate Equitable OA

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How Journals Are Using Overlay Publishing Models to Facilitate Equitable OA

In the overlay publishing model, a journal performs refereeing services, but it doesn’t publish articles on its website. Rather, the journal’s website links to final article versions hosted on an online repository. Some editors share why they chose to publish their journals via the arXiv overlay model and how they believe overlay journals will contribute to greater equity in OA.

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Open Science Must Be Promoted by All Means Necessary

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Open Science Must Be Promoted by All Means Necessary

Finland aiming to have open access to all scientific publications by 2020.

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"Who owns Digital Science" – That is the Question…

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"Who owns Digital Science" – That is the Question…

Digital Science continued independence is the best way to have the biggest impact in supporting research, researchers, publishers, funders and research institutions around the world.

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Reproducible Research and GIScience: an Evaluation Using AGILE Conference Papers

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Reproducible Research and GIScience: an Evaluation Using AGILE Conference Papers

We reviewed current recommendations for reproducible research and translated them into criteria for assessing the reproducibility of articles in the field of geographic information science (GIScience). Results from the author feedback indicate that although authors support the concept of performing reproducible research, the incentives for doing this in practice are too small. Therefore, we propose concrete actions for individual researchers and the GIScience conference series to improve transparency and reproducibility.

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To My Fellow Lawmakers: Let’s Read Real Science News, Not Breitbart

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To My Fellow Lawmakers: Let’s Read Real Science News, Not Breitbart

Fellow Congress members should rely on peer-reviewed science, not fake news.

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World's First 'Negative Findings' Science Prize Aims to Tackle Publication Bias

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World's First 'Negative Findings' Science Prize Aims to Tackle Publication Bias

ECNP’s Preclinical Data Forum has announced the world’s first prize of 10,000 EUR for publishing ‘negative’ scientific results.

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Diversity in Science Prizes - A Call to Action: Tell Us Your Views

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Diversity in Science Prizes - A Call to Action: Tell Us Your Views

Is there a diversity issue in international science prizes? We explore this issue and ask our members and the scientific community to share their ideas by taking our online survey.

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Geologist's Sacking Prompts Outcry

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Geologist's Sacking Prompts Outcry

Researchers say that Irina Artemieva's dismissal from the University of Copenhagen runs counter to international academic standards.

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Newly Released AI Software Writes Papers for You

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Newly Released AI Software Writes Papers for You

This week, we received a press release that caught our attention: A company is releasing software it claims will write manuscripts using researchers’ data. 

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Supercharge Your Research: a Ten-week Plan for Open Data Science

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Supercharge Your Research: a Ten-week Plan for Open Data Science

Researchers share tips for transforming your group with open data science and teamwork.

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Trust in Research

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Trust in Research

Elsevier's new report with Sense About Science about how to make research more reliable and less burdensome.

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The Fair Labor Standards Act and Postdocs

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The Fair Labor Standards Act and Postdocs

What postdocs present and future should know about the Fair Labor Standards Act.

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Percentage-Based Author Contribution Index

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Percentage-Based Author Contribution Index

An easy to apply, universally comparable and fair metric to measure and report co-authors contribution in the scientific literature.

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Overcoming the Language Barrier

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Overcoming the Language Barrier

Climanosco believes that changing the language can make the debate around climate science can become more inclusive. The organisation publishes papers that have been reviewed by teams of both scientists and laypeople.

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Publishing a Reproducible Paper

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Publishing a Reproducible Paper

The perceived and actual barriers experienced by researchers attempting to do reproducible research.

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Are Predatory Journals Undermining the Credibility of Science? A Bibliometric Analysis of Citers

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Are Predatory Journals Undermining the Credibility of Science? A Bibliometric Analysis of Citers

An analysis of potential predatory journals as well as potential poor scientific standards journals.

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Guidelines on Good Science Publishing

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Guidelines on Good Science Publishing

French, German, and UK's joint guidelines for high-quality publications in scientific journals.

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Funding ‘Skewed Towards Previous Winners’

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Funding ‘Skewed Towards Previous Winners’

Researchers must have grants to win grants, new study says.

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On The Lie of Basic Science

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On The Lie of Basic Science

Why pursue knowledge for its own sake?

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Accelerating Scholarly Communication: The Transformative Role of Preprints

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Accelerating Scholarly Communication: The Transformative Role of Preprints

Study explores the place of preprints in the research lifecycle from the points of view of researchers, research performing organisations, research funding organisations and preprint servers/service providers.

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Funders and Publishers as Agents of Change

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Funders and Publishers as Agents of Change

Funders and publishers have something in common: for better or worse, we have the ability to influence the behavior of researchers.

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Naomi Oreskes: 'Discrediting Science is a Political Strategy'

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Naomi Oreskes: 'Discrediting Science is a Political Strategy'

The Harvard professor on science and scepticism - and why climate deniers have run out of excuses.

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The Allure of the Journal Impact Factor Holds Firm, Despite Its Flaws

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The Allure of the Journal Impact Factor Holds Firm, Despite Its Flaws

Many researchers still see the journal impact factor (JIF) as a key metric for promotions and tenure, despite concerns that it’s a flawed measure of a researcher’s value.

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