Designing a New Type of Journal Metric
At the Researcher to Reader conference, a volunteer project called Project Cupcake was launched to define a new suite of indicators to help researchers judge publishers, rather than the other way around.
How Bad is Omicron? What Scientists Know So Far
COVID researchers are working at breakneck speed to learn about the variant's transmissibility, severity and ability to evade vaccines.
Kristian Krieger and Stijn Verleyen on Mapping Europe's Science Advice Landscape
Kristian Krieger and Stijn Verleyen on Mapping Europe's Science Advice Landscape
When it comes to science advice infrastructure, Europe is far from a unified whole. That’s why the European Commission’s science service, the Joint Research Centre, set out to map the entire landscape, looking not only at European and national level but also digging into the way science influences policy within regions and even individual cities.
A 171-Year-Old Suggestion to Promote Open Science
Just like judges and politicians, researchers may overstate their confidence in a claim. To truly assess their confidence, something needs to be on the line.
Dartmouth's Sexual Harassment Scandal Transformed the Lives of These Women in Science
In 2017, a group of students at Dartmouth College filed a lawsuit that revealed an entrenched culture of power and abuse, and in doing so, they sparked a wider conversation about sexual violence in science.
Scientists Uncover Ancient Origin of Cultural and Linguistic Networks of Central African Hunter-Gatherers
Scientists Uncover Ancient Origin of Cultural and Linguistic Networks of Central African Hunter-Gatherers
Extensive social networks among different hunter-gatherer groups in the Congo Basin existed long before the advent of agriculture in the region. This continent-wide exchange helped preserve a rich cultural diversity that evolved over thousands of years, as demonstrated by researchers from the Univer
How Paywalls Harm Cancer Patients
10 stories from users of the Open Access Button on why they need research to be freely available.
AI Will Soon Be Able to Audit All Published Research - What Will That Mean for Public Trust in Science?
AI Will Soon Be Able to Audit All Published Research - What Will That Mean for Public Trust in Science?
An AI audit of scientific research would likely expose some fraud and widespread inconsequential work. But we need to be careful it doesn't discredit science in general.
73% of Academics Say Access to Research Data Helps Them in Their Work; 34% Do Not Publish Their Data
73% of Academics Say Access to Research Data Helps Them in Their Work; 34% Do Not Publish Their Data
A new report published today by Elsevier and CWTS provides a benchmark overview of data sharing perceptions and practices among researchers.
China Considers Easing Immigration for International Scientists
The government of China is considering easing immigration channels for international scientists and researchers.
Our Path to Better Science in Less Time Using Open Data Science Tools
Our Path to Better Science in Less Time Using Open Data Science Tools
How several free software tools have fundamentally upgraded our approach to collaborative research, making our entire workflow more transparent and streamlined.
Initiative for Open Citations
The Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC) is a collaboration between scholarly publishers, researchers, and other interested parties to promote the unrestricted availability of scholarly citation data.
Are Scientists Using Social Media Effectively?
Social media platforms such as Twitter can be effectively used for connecting with scientific communities across the globe, facilitating knowledge exchange.
Public Trust in Science is Ebbing - and Will Have Real-world Consequences
Public Trust in Science is Ebbing - and Will Have Real-world Consequences
Anti-science attitudes have historically encumbered societal progress in the U.S., often with serious ramifications. The scientific community is now bracing for upheaval as the Trump administration prepares to take office.
How to Win Funding to Talk About Your Science
Many researchers describe public outreach as a labour of love, often carried out in their spare time. But some funders reward these activities.
US to Push 'Democracy-Affirming Technology' with Prizes and Research Projects
US to Push 'Democracy-Affirming Technology' with Prizes and Research Projects
The US is set to fund prizes, challenges and research projects to create so-called "democracy affirming technologies" that allow open societies to reap the benefits of innovation without sacrificing privacy or accountability.
Europe is breaking its reliance on American science
European governments are taking steps to break their dependence on critical scientific data the United States historically made freely available to the world, and are ramping up their own data collection systems to monitor climate change and weather extremes
The Look and Feel of 21st Century Science
Humanity is going through unprecedented global change. The systems that arose to organize societies in the last 400 years are breaking down — and now is the time to envision what will come next.
Does Peer Review Help Weed Out Bad Science?
Does Peer Review Help Weed Out Bad Science?
Peer-review had a role to play when journals were all in print and competing for subscription real estate, but today it may be little more than a vestige of the print era.
High-Profile Journals Put to Reproducibility Test
Researchers replicated 62% of social-behaviour findings published in Science and Nature - a result matched almost exactly by a prediction market.
Budding Scientists Inherit Career Success — or the Lack of it — from Their Mentors
Institute Announces New Open Access Policy for All MIT Authors
Optional license allows students, researchers, and staff to make scholarly articles freely available.
China Leads EU and US on Using Artificial Intelligence in Science
Chinese scientists have incorporated artificial intelligence into their work more rapidly than their EU or US counterparts, a European Commission analysis has found, bolstering the case for the bloc to speed up adoption.
The Citation Black Market: Schemes Selling Fake References Alarm Scientists
The Citation Black Market: Schemes Selling Fake References Alarm Scientists
The ways in which researchers can artificially inflate their reference counts are growing.
Towards Greater Reproducibility for Life-Sciences Research in Nature
Nature will publish more details on experiments described in life-sciences papers.
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