Study finds that the number of publications in open access journals rises every year, while the number of publications in questionable journals decreases from 2012 onwards. Both early career and more senior researchers publish in questionable journals.
Study investigated 19 topics related to transparency in reporting and research integrity. Only three topics were addressed in more than one third of scientific journals' Instructions to Authors.
Around half of researchers already publish their work with open access, according to a comprehensive survey carried out by the Main Library of the University of Zurich. Besides a number of positive results, the survey also revealed a need for more information.
University researchers outside the EU who may not otherwise have access to research articles should not be excluded based on the actions of their government.
When social scientists think about big data, they often think in terms of quantitative number crunching. However, the growing availability of ‘big’ qualitative datasets presents new opportunities for qualitative research.
Researchers can submit their work directly from bioRxiv to F1000Research offering more choice and flexibility to authors in deciding when to set preprints to under invited peer review.
You’ll find communities thirsty for your findings – and a space to demonstrate measurable ‘impact’ to your heart’s content.
To celebrate LGBTSTEM Day, our researchers talk about being #LGBT in science and engineering and why celebrating diversity is so important.
Combining artificial Intelligence (AI) and open science can accelerate scientific discovery, redefine the boundaries of scientific research and democratise access to knowledge.
African universities have been urged to foster gender equality, parity and mentoring of girls and early career women scientists in STEM, in order to facilitate economic transformation and other developmental challenges affecting the East African region.
Article enumerating five characteristics that a scientific code in computational science should possess.
Three years on, scientist mums implore universities, funding agencies and publishers to heed calls to account for COVID-19 disruptions.
Peer review publications remain a key stage in the quality assurance of new research, but some comments can be the stuff of nightmares.
New data shows that many Ph.D.s switch jobs and employment sectors in their early careers and even into midcareer. So Ph.D. programs should help students navigate job opportunities and understand the value of their degrees across sectors.
This paper examines how patterns of knowledge diffusion can forecast the collapse of scientific 'bubbles', highlighting that sustained scientific advancement requires diverse audiences.
The European Commission (EC) is currently working on an implementation plan and a roadmap for the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), which should then be adopted on 28 May. EOSC should offer 1.7 million European researchers and 70 million professionals in science and technology a virtual environment with open seamless services for storage, management, analysis and re-use of research data, across borders and scientific disciplines.
A list of some of the shady things Elsevier has been previously caught doing
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.
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.
The hunger for these offsets is blinding us to the mounting pile of evidence that they haven't - and won't - deliver the climate benefit they promise.
Scientists in New Zealand held the first ‘Kindness in Science’ workshop in December 2017 at the University of Auckland, hoping to kick-start a movement that will offer a kinder, gentler and more inclusive scientific culture. The group’s mantra is “Everyone here is smart and kind — don’t distinguish yourself by being otherwise.”
When we expand our pool of storytellers, we produce work that more fully reflects how science is done - and why it matters.
An inquiry into why research on the nature of dogs gets so much attention raises the question of whether there are actually more studies of dogs.
