As long men can score points for producing mountains of output, women will never get a fair shot at academic promotion
Breaking down lengthy, narrative-driven biomedical articles into brief reports on singular observations or experiments could increase reproducibility and accessibility in the literature.
Canadian scientists are now allowed to speak out about their work — and the government policy that had restricted communications.
The problem of bias in published research must be tackled in a consistent and comprehensive fashion, says Adam G. Dunn.
Following their February breakthrough, Kip Thorne, Rainer Weiss, Ronald Drever and nearly 1,000 LIGO scientists will share the Silicon Valley-backed prize.
The scientific community must do a better job confronting the issues facing women in science, our author writes
Launch of Research Integrity and Peer Review, a new open-access journal that will provide a home to research on ethics, reporting, and evaluation of research.
However, director of the Oxford Martin School says 'disciplinary silos' were one factor contributing to 2008 financial crisis
Sci-Hub is facing millions of dollars in damages in a lawsuit filed by Elsevier, one of the largest academic publishers. As a result of the legal battle the site just lost one of its latest domain names. However, the site has no intentions of backing down, and will continue its fight to keep access to scientific knowledge free and open.
The opinions of others are key to creating or damaging an institution's reputation
The symposium “Personalized Health in the Digitial Age” brings together some of the world's thought leaders in the ongoing revolution in personalized and digital health.
The current incentives structure — mostly based on publishing in prestigious journals — discourages sharing, replication, and, some argue, careful science.
A study released on Thursday found that many Ph.D. students pursue post-docs as a “default” option after graduate school, or as part of a “holding pattern” until the job they want is available.
Complex, diverse rationales require nuanced policies: evidence suggests a need for increased attention to career planning among students, their mentors, graduate schools, and funders
Crossref will enable members to register preprints in order to clarify the scholarly citation record and better support the changing publishing models of its members.
How can interdisciplinary research proposals be more effectively assessed through peer review?
Survey responses reveal that beyond lack of journal access, convenience and antipathy toward publishers are key motivations for turning to paper repository
A mathematician weighs in.
Royal Society's President, Sir Venki Ramakrishnan, on the key principles to guide the future of UK's research.
Billionaires are funding lots of grandiose plans. Welcome their ambition
Interview with Daniel Lakens, Assistant Professor in Applied Cognitive Psychology at the Eindhoven University of Technology
