I get the feeling that some researchers regard public, post-publication peer review as a non-rigorous, non-structured and poor alternative to traditional peer review...
Pivotal moments in the history of academic refereeing have occurred at times when the public status of science was being renegotiated.
Characteristics of images and perceptions of professionalism and attractiveness on academic social networking sites
Government-funded research is behind any significant new product
This study attempted to determine the percentage of published papers containing inappropriate image duplication, a specific type of inaccurate data.
The Nature Index tracks the affiliations of high-quality scientific articles.
Figshare has brought science publishing into the digital age so that academics can publish and share their research fully
A 2002 law in Norway that ended the country's long-running practice of giving academics 100% ownership of their intellectual property and adopted a U.S.-style system caused the per capita number of patents from academics to drop by 53% in the next 5 years.
Peer review hacking, where a fake identity is used to write a favorable review, is of growing concern to journal editors.
Vice President Joe Biden has met with thousands of stakeholders across all sectors, seeking suggestions for how to remove the barriers that are currently blocking progress in science, research, and development.
Op-ed: Big US companies could use patent licensing to throttle EU startups.
The new David Rumsey Map Center, which opened last week at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, showcases what was once one of the world’s great private map collections—more than 150,000 maps, globes, and cartographic artifacts.
Commission announces new Flagship plan with little fanfare
You all know about publication bias, don't you? Sure you do. It's the tendency to publish research that has bold, affirmative results and ignore research that concludes there's nothing going on.
Dodgy results are fuelling flawed policy decisions and undermining medical advances. They could even make us lose faith in science. New Scientist investigates
An outspoken biologist uses social media as a megaphone as he calls out his colleagues for hyping their research findings and ignoring women scientists.
Whilst Brexit looms more ominously in the background, the next generation of data publishing is moving towards an ever-more collaborative and open place in which researchers can easily choose to make discoveries and data sets available across borders and cultures.
The replicability of psychological research is surprisingly low. Why? In this blog post I present new evidence showing that questionable research practices contributed to failures to replicate psyc…
There is increasing support in the scholarly communications community for “flipping” the standard journal publishing model from subscription-based to “gold” open access...
Who reads science blogs, and why? This broad question started this Experiment.com project, and now the results are in.
Supporting Europe's innovators through open innovation - 2014-2019
Turning scientific evidence into policy exposes a gulf between how scientists think and how policymakers work. Here’s what scientists need to know
A 40-year longitudinal cross-validation of citations, downloads, and peer review in astrophysics
