Our largest encyclopedia overwhelmingly recognises the achievements of white men. For physicist Jess Wade, fighting this bias has been an uphill battle to ensure that the scientific contributions made by women and other under-represented communities aren’t lost to posterity.
Without more conservative perspectives in the academy, lawmakers will increasingly ignore and potentially defund social science.
Leading figures from policy, science, publishing and advocacy discuss how open science can maximise the value of research and innovation for our societies.
We explore the components that can support reproducibility by making research more easily verifiable: data, code, and protocols.
Education's digital transition has allowed students to study and researchers to work remotely throughout the pandemic, however we need to ensure te...
Ethics watchdogs are looking out for potentially undisclosed use of generative AI in scientific writing. But there's no foolproof way to catch it all yet.
The current incentive structure often leads to dead-end studies-but there are ways to fix the problem.
A two-day sprint event bringing together researchers, coders, librarians and the public from around the globe.
New simulation study says peer review is better at assuring quality research than random publication choices, but some systems of review are significantly better than others. Editors seen as more effective than peer-review panels alone.
In this article, we look at some of the measures we can take as individual scientists and as a global community to improve the reproducibility and rigor of scientific endeavor.
Three years after the attack on Ukraine, positions are changing, but there is no more money in Germany for military research.
Questionable research practices are not fraud, and they're not cause for panic. But they do give us some hints about how we can make science more robust.
A guide to help search more easily for open access articles.
The purpose of this literature review is to identify the challenges, opportunities, and gaps in knowledge with regard to the use of metadata in scholarly communications. This paper compiles and interprets literature in sections based on the professional groups, or stakeholders, within scholarly communications metadata: researchers, funders, publishers, librarians, service providers, and data curators.
Researchers hope to build a facility with thousands of robots capable of performing experiments independently by 2040.
Two NEJM editors say data sharing should happen symbiotically, not parasitically.
Researchers naturally want their work to make a difference, but the sad fact is that it often has little influence beyond academia
The number of researchers who work on basic science questions has dropped precipitously.
Postmodern ideas have gained the status of absolute truths. Relativism, selectively appropriated into the language of both left and right politics, has metamorphosed into dogma. As oversimplification distorts communication, public trust in scientific fact has eroded. Could renewed ideas of objectivity be a way out?
Alert your followers on Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and other social networking sites by announcing your published work along with a link to your article. To encourage sharing - use hashtags relevant to your subject and tag co-authors or department colleagues who may also want to share your paper. Looking for more ideas?
There is a wealth of advice and 'how to' guides available to academics on the subject of how research can have an impact on policy and practice. In this post Kathryn Oliver and Paul Cairney assess the value of this literature, arguing that unless researchers seek to situate research impact within processes of policymaking and academic knowledge production, this advice can ultimately reinforce current inequalities in research impact.
A UK study says record-breaking temperatures in NW India and Pakistan are now 100 times more likely.
Greenpeace accepts climate science. So why do they dismiss the science around GMOs?
It might style itself as a grassroots movement but citizen science is little more than a cheap land-grab by big business.
