For those researchers, the pressure to publish is intense, as they vie for the few jobs at the heads of academic labs. This atmosphere can lead to mistakes.

Researchers should spend more trying to reproduce other scientists' results.

Honoring young researchers who champion rigorous, transparent research is a small step towards changing the culture of science.

As a new French report highlights, early-career researchers face significant challenges landing permanent academic positions—but there may also be some rays of hope.

The Web has greatly reduced the barriers to entry for new journals and other platforms for communicating scientific output, and the number of journals continues to multiply. This leaves readers and authors with the daunting cognitive challenge of navigating the literature and discerning contributions that are both relevant and significant.

There’s more money to be made investing in drugs that will extend cancer patients’ lives by a few months than in drugs that would prevent cancer in the first place.

By sharing their experiences, early-career scientists can help to make the case for increased government funding for researchers.

Early career researchers face a cruel world these days. Even though they are an increasingly diverse cohort, they are still generally imagined as young, full-time academics without significant outside commitments.

A short list of seven functionalities that academic publishers looking to modernize their operations might invest in; from unencumbered access and improved social components, to dynamic data visualisations and more precise hyperlinking.

Alternative career paths should be celebrated, not seen as a compromise.

There has been no precedent for this kind of access in the history of scientific enterprise.