OSI Brief: Deceptive Publishing
Deceptive publishing (aka predatory publishing) has been a growing problem for years now. What do we know about it? How should we respond?
Europe Eyes Closer Research and Innovation Cooperation with Africa
Europe Eyes Closer Research and Innovation Cooperation with Africa
Africa is fast becoming a key priority on the EU's foreign policy agenda and research and innovation has a role to play in deepening the partnership - but investment and integrated strategies are needed to encourage more cooperation.
Ending the Science-policy Gap
There should be a science-based policymaking process in disaster risk reduction.
Academic Publishing is a Goddamned Exploitative Farce — Age of Awareness
Peer review and criticism is an essential part of academic discourse, and it is why journal articles are of such high quality and rigor. But you don’t get paid for it.
Repetitive flaws
Scientists who submit grant applications to the NIH will be required to explain the scientific premise behind their proposals and defend the quality of their experimental designs.
China Becomes Russia's Biggest Collaborator After War Decimates Science Ties with the West
China Becomes Russia's Biggest Collaborator After War Decimates Science Ties with the West
China has become Russia's biggest scientific collaborator following Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, largely because ties to the west have dramatically shrunk since the war began.
Funding Furore Shows the Need to Experiment with Peer Review
Funding Furore Shows the Need to Experiment with Peer Review
Canada’s experience with virtual panels shows that the status quo should be challenged, not accepted unthinkingly.
Combating Plagiarism: Apograf + Unicheck
One of the latest creations to emerge from the Research Institute's lab, Apograf is an interactive platform that houses an extensive collection of scientific publications and is building a mechanism for incentivising peer review.
NIH Upholds Controversial Plan to Step Up Oversight of Foreign Collaborators
NIH Upholds Controversial Plan to Step Up Oversight of Foreign Collaborators
The US biomedical agency tweaked its new policy after an outcry from researchers, but will forge ahead.
Opinion | The Secret Life of a Coronavirus
An oily, 100-nanometer-wide bubble of genes has killed more than two million people and reshaped the world. Scientists don't quite know what to make of it.
In Referees We Trust?
The imprimatur bestowed by peer review has a history that is both shorter and more complex than many scientists realize.
How to Boost Your Research: Take a Sabbatical in Policy
Academic researchers have a unique opportunity to benefit society - and their research - by spending time in government.
An HIV Treatment Cost Taxpayers Millions. The Government Patented It. But a Pharma Giant Is Making Billions.
An HIV Treatment Cost Taxpayers Millions. The Government Patented It. But a Pharma Giant Is Making Billions.
The extraordinary standoff between the CDC and a drug company over patent rights raises a big question for the Trump administration: How aggressively should the government attempt to enforce its patents against an industry partner?
Face Masks Effectively Limit the Probability of SARS-CoV-2 Transmission
Airborne transmission by droplets and aerosols is important for the spread of viruses. Face masks are a well-established preventive measure, but their effectiveness for mitigating SARS-CoV-2 transmission is still under debate. We show that variations in mask efficacy can be explained by different regimes of virus abundance and related to population-average infection probability and reproduction number. For SARS-CoV-2, the viral load of infectious individuals can vary by orders of magnitude. We find that most environments and contacts are under conditions of low virus abundance (virus-limited) where surgical masks are effective at preventing virus spread. More advanced masks and other protective equipment are required in potentially virus-rich indoor environments including medical centers and hospitals. Masks are particularly effective in combination with other preventive measures like ventilation and distancing.
Eating Meat 'raises Risk of Heart Disease, Diabetes and Pneumonia'
UK researchers find link between regular meat intake and nine non-cancerous illnesses.
How scientists are doing a bait-and-switch with medical data
Researchers are “choosing their lottery numbers after seeing the draw”, making medicine less reliable - and respected journals are letting them do it.
Societal Impact of Universities
A new policy paper by LERU on why and how societal impact has always been, is and will remain, a core task of universities.
Plagiarism Detectors Are a Crutch, and a Problem
Academics and editors need to stop pretending that software always catches recycled text and start reading more carefully, says Debora Weber-Wulff.
AI Tools As Science Policy Advisers? The Potential and the Pitfalls
Large language models and other artificial-intelligence systems could be excellent at synthesizing scientific evidence for policymakers - but only with appropriate safeguards and humans in the loop.
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 to Find Meaning in Your Science Career: Six Expert Tips
Philosophers, social scientists and a Nobel-prizewinning economist on how researchers can get satisfaction from their work - and make a difference to the world.
Plan S Impact Survey
cOAlition S values the opinion of all researchers. We want to understand if and how Plan S affects your publishing practices and your views on Open Access.
Academics want you to read their work for free
Publishing an open-access paper in a journal can be prohibitively expensive. Some researchers are drumming up support for a movement to change that.
How Paywalls Harm Cancer Patients
10 stories from users of the Open Access Button on why they need research to be freely available.
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.
The Disinformation Sleuths: a Key Role for Scientists in Impending Elections
How to structure the discussion part in your journal article
Helping scientists communicate: The CommKit is a collection of guides to successful scientific communication, written by MIT’s Department of Biological Engineering Communication Fellows.
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