Memo to Research Funders: If You Want Open Science, Try Harder
Kamila Markram, head of open science platform Frontiers, argues research funders must do much more to speed openness in science.
Obama orders effort to build first exascale computer
The US is committed to building a computer some 30x more powerful than today's top machine.
Raising the Status of Peer Review With Publons
An interview with Tom Culley, Marketing Director of Publons, on how provide recognition for this vital part of the scientific process.
On the importance of being negative
Negative findings matter too and new OA publications are helping researchers to give a fuller account of themselves.
Are older academics past their productive peak?
A recent paper claims that the quality of researchers declines with age. Five senior scientists consider the data and how they’ve contributed through the years.
How to Come Up With Wild and Crazy Ideas
“”Imagination is more important than knowledge.” - Albert Einstein
How Fair Is It for Just Three People to Receive the Nobel Prize in Physics?
How Fair Is It for Just Three People to Receive the Nobel Prize in Physics?
Alfred Nobel didn’t foresee the current era of mega scientific collaboration.
Before Reproducibility Must Come Preproducibility
Most papers fail to report many aspects of the experiment and analysis that we may not with advantage omit - things that are crucial to understanding the result and its limitations and to repeating the work. Instead of arguing about whether results hold up, we should strive to provide enough information for others to repeat the experiments.
Predicting scientific success based on coauthorship networks
Paper challenging the perception of citations as an objective, socially unbiased measure of scientific success.
Would the preprint movement revolutionize the life sciences for better or worse?
Many in the scientific community praise preprints as a means of overcoming the high costs and lengthy peer review process of elite journals, which some argue thwart progress.
How Can Scientists Foster Public Trust on Instagram?
U.S. adults see scientists as intelligent, but not always warm. This is a problem because people's perceptions of scientists' warmth influence their trust in scientific information. Could scientists be improving trust via social media?
The Threat of a Brain Drain Under a Trump Presidency Is Real
Top science and tech talent could choose to set up in other countries that are more hospitable to their work.
Italian Election Leaves Science out in the Cold
Researchers hold out little hope that the next government will improve their underfunded research system.
Experimental reproducibility has always been hard but cooperation could make it easier
Experimental reproducibility has always been hard but cooperation could make it easier
Is public money being thrown away on scientific research whose results won’t hold up to scrutiny?
US Health Care Reform: Progress and Next Steps
US Health Care Reform: Progress and Next Steps
In this Special Communication, President Barack Obama reviews the Affordable Care Act: why he pursued it, what it has effected, and how the health care system can still be improved.
How Science Visualization Can Help Save the World
Information graphics and the fight for science in Trump’s America
Authorea Acquires The Winnower
The Winnower will power a range of publishing services for researchers who are writing on Authorea.
We discovered one of social science's biggest frauds. Here's what we learned.
What are the right lessons to draw from the rise in scientific retractions?
What Gives With So Many Hard Scientists Being Hard-Core Endurance Runners?
A surprising number of physicists and astronomers and STEM professionals compete in long, hard, miserable athletic endeavors like ultramarathons. Why?
Too Many Studies Have Hidden Conflicts of Interest. A New Tool Makes It Easier to See Them.
Journal Peer Review: A Bar or Bridge? An Analysis of a Paper's Revision History and Turnaround Time, and the Effect on Citation
Journal Peer Review: A Bar or Bridge? An Analysis of a Paper's Revision History and Turnaround Time, and the Effect on Citation
Article exploring the journal peer review process, examining how the reviewing process might itself contribute to papers, leading them to be more highly cited and to achieve greater recognition.
The 7 biggest problems facing science, according to 270 scientists
These are dark times for science so we asked hundreds of researchers how to fix it.
The Case for 'Open Science': Do We Need Intellectual Property Law?
Professor Aled Edwards asks why we need an Intellectual Property law.
Even Psychologists Respond To Meaningless Rewards
Even Psychologists Respond To Meaningless Rewards
All they needed to be more open with their data was the promise of a badge showing they did it.
Universities Benefit from both Brexit and Trump
As United States and British legislators tighten the screws on travel and visa rules, they might be squeezing out international researchers and students. Canadian universities, meanwhile, are seeing surging interest from both groups.
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