The Replication Crisis
Stephanie Wykstra Ivan Oransky Stuart Buck Brian Nosek Julia Galef (Moderator) How can we produce research findings that are both useful and robust?
Researchers or Corporate Allies? Think Tanks Blur the Line
Think tanks are seen as independent, but their scholars often push donors’ agendas, amplifying a culture of corporate influence in Washington.
Yes, Serious Academics Should Absolutely Use Social Media
Like the phone, typewriter, or parchment and ink, social media is a tool for communicating with our fellow humans. It’s the best we’ve ever had, in fact.
Wikidata: The New Rosetta Stone
Wikidata: The New Rosetta Stone
Wikidata is a new step forward in the democratisation of access to information.
Nature Index Institution outputs
The Nature Index tracks the affiliations of high-quality scientific articles. Updated monthly, the Nature Index presents research outputs by institution and country. Use the Nature Index to interrogate publication patterns and to benchmark research performance.
Global-level data sets may be more highly cited than most journal articles
Global-level data sets may be more highly cited than most journal articles
The production, archival, and sharing of data may actually be a more effective way to contribute to the advancement of scientific knowledge.
Supporting Sci-Hub vs. Explaining Sci-Hub
Association of American Publishers complains about Cal State librarian who studies popularity of pirated scientific papers. Cal State defends its librarian.
Strengthening Research through Data Sharing
Strengthening Research through Data Sharing
Data sharing holds incredible promise for strengthening the practice of medical research and the integrity of our clinical trial system.
Elizabeth Warren demands open access to clinical trial data
Senator Elizabeth Warren called on researchers to make public data they collect while testing drugs and medical devices on patients. Others disagree.
Journal-Flipping
Harvard Library publishes report on converting subscription journals to open access.
A study of institutional spending on open access publication fees in Germany
A study of institutional spending on open access publication fees in Germany
How much German universities and research organisations spent on open access publication fees.
What’s in a name?
The tricks and teases academics use to entice their readers: clichés, the Bard and the phrases of the moment.
Confirming What We Already Knew About Open Access
A new study from the University of California system confirms much of what we already knew about open access, particularly the increased financial burden it places on productive universities.
How to Bring Science Publishing into the 21st Century
Authorea, a new collaborative tool, could revolutionize scientific authorship
NEJM doubles down on resistance to data sharing
NEJM doubles down on resistance to data sharing
An editorial argues that data sharing can cripple scientific progress and harm patients, but there are myriad flaws with that reasoning.
ChemRxiv: A preprint server to promote early research sharing
American Chemical Society announces intention to establish “ChemRxiv” preprint server to promote early research sharing
Assuring the integrity of science
Advancements in the research integrity project launched in 2011.
Finalist for the Open Science Prize
The OpenTrialsFDA team was selected as a finalist for the Open Science Prize.
Chemists to get preprint server of their own
American Chemical Society to lead effort to match other disciplines
UK guarantees EU funding beyond leaving the EU
Chancellor Philip Hammond guarantees EU funding beyond date UK leaves the EU. British businesses and universities will have certainty over future funding and should continue to bid for competitive EU funds while the UK remains a member of the EU.
Sign the "For Women in Science Manifesto"
Encourage girls to explore scientific career paths.
What it costs to publish in eLife
We present a deeper view of our 2015 financials, covering publishing and non-publishing expenses. As part of our ambition to change how science publishing works, especially among highly selective journals, we hope that being transparent about our costs will help to set a future course for research communication that is efficient and sustainable.
How Scientific Success in Physics Depends on Network Positions
Utilizing 250,000 papers from ArXiv.org we construct large coauthorship networks to investigate how individual network positions influence scientific success. Surprisingly, inter(sub)disciplinary collaborations decrease the probability of getting a paper published in specialized journals for almost all positions.
Does high impact factor successfully predict future citations? An analysis using Peirce’s measure
Does high impact factor successfully predict future citations? An analysis using Peirce’s measure
It is clear that the journal impact factor is not effective in predicting future citations of successful authors.
Nope! 8 Rejected Papers That Won the Nobel Prize
Nobel prize winning ideas are not always accepted by the community. By definition, they are paradigm shifting, revolutionary.
Accountability in academic publishing
Currently, there is no record of previous submission of a paper to other journals and the comments it might have received in the journey to the final publication. A paper that might have been rejected by three or four journals goes into press, and people hear about the results without any of the background scientific debate and conversation that led to this publicatio.