The biotech company Amgen Inc. and prominent biochemist Bruce Alberts have created a new online journal that aims to lift the curtain on often hidden results in biomedicine: failed efforts to confirm other groups' published papers.
The fashion for making employees collaborate has gone too far.
Reproducibility should be at science’s heart. It isn’t. But that may soon change.
Mistakes in peer-reviewed papers are easy to find but hard to fix.
A method that could be used by funding agencies, universities and scientific policy decision makers for hiring and funding purposes, and to complement existing methods to rank universities and countries.
This study shows that the long-run patterns of international scientific collaboration are generating a convergence between applied and basic fields. This convergence of collaboration patterns across research fields might be one of contributing factors that supports the evolution of scientific disciplines.
The transparency of the peer-review process is an indicator of peer-review quality.
"A devout husband and father, Darwin balanced his family duties with the study of the specimens he brought from his travels."
Despite the real-time scrutiny of internet publication, getting a paper retracted or corrected turns out to be nearly impossible.
After getting shut down late last year, a website that allows free access to paywalled academic papers has sprung back up in a shadowy corner of the Internet.
Scientists are becoming increasingly frustrated by the time it takes to publish a paper.
High-profile physicist says his students' papers were wrongly rejected by the preprint server's volunteer moderators.
20 funding organizations and public funding agencies from 11 countries promise that they will require grantees to have plans in place for sharing their results and data ASAP.
Many research advocates worry that the proposal could backfire in the face of political opposition.
The widening scandal surrounding surgeon Paolo Macchiarini and his employment at the Karolinska Insitute in Stockholm has prompted Urban Lendahl, secretary general of the Nobel Assembly, to resign.
It’s rare for scientists to get much systematic or public recognition for their reviewing efforts
If we want to embed equality and diversity in research culture, any future use of metrics to assess research must not adversely affect specific groups or researchers.
The traditional way of publishing new findings in journals is becoming increasingly outdated and no longer serves the needs of much of science.
An assessment of the first two years of Horizon 2020 programme, taking into account
An intelligent machine learning framework for scientific evaluation of researchers may help decision makers to better allocate the available funding to the distinguished scientists through providing fair comparative results, regardless of the career age of the researchers.
Independent advice from Professor Adam Tickell on open access to research publications.
This paper shows how bibliometric assessment can be implemented at individual level.
To promote and reward collaboration we’re developing a “C-score” that measures the quality and quantity of collaborators’ contributions to group efforts.,
Times Higher Education's poll shows that the bulk of staff find their work rewarding but there is a deep gulf between academics and professional and support staff.
ASAPbio meeting discusses the ins and outs of posting work online before peer review.
Paper underscores the limitations of peer review as a means of assessing grant applications in an era when typical success rates are often as low as about 10% in the US.
Moves to speed up the release of Zika virus research in response to the public health crisis highlight a systemic failure in scientific publishing.
Anders Hamsten, has resigned after acknowledging that he mishandled the prestigious Swedish institute's investigation into controversial surgeon Paolo Macchiarini.
How to do great research, get it published, and improve health outcomes.
