The U.S. depends on international collaborations and immigrants to solve domestic and global problems.
Erdogan, has taken direct control of the appointment of university rectors and a further 1,267 academics have been dismissed.
Half of clinical trials do not have their results published. Those behind the TrialsTracker, a web tool created by the Evidence-Based Medicine Data Lab, at Oxford University, hope to change this.
Scientific research is being skewed by researchers and journals changing what they're looking for after the results of the study come in. But some people are finding ways to fight back against their own bias.
Tips from Nature Research editors.
More than 1000 academics fired.
Explore our data to see the universities, government bodies and pharmaceutical companies that fail to share their clinical trial results.
When we pay for federally funded research, we should be allowed to read it. That’s the simple premise of FASTR, the Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act.
A practical pathway to becoming an expert reviewer.
An empirical analysis of researchers’ publications reveals that females have fewer distinct coauthors yet have a lower chance of repeating previous coauthors than their male counterparts.
A court case may define the limits of anonymous scientific criticism
An unbending reward system prevents early-career researchers taking full advantage of the digital world.
How researchers are taking advantage of Twitter and other forums to do, share, and discuss research
There are big advantages to having scientists communicate in a common tongue, but there are drawbacks as well
Program of OpenCon 2016, a platform for the next generation to learn about Open Access, Open Education, and Open Data, develop critical skills, and catalyze action toward a more open system for sharing the world’s information. Held in Washington, DC on November 12-14, 2016.
A free, open source, preprints repository, api, and aggregator for arXiv, PeerJ, Research Papers in Economics, PsyArXiv, SocArXiv, engrXiv, and others.
A modern digital state needs an effective data infrastructure.
Calculation suggests papers with women first-authors have citation rates pushed down by 10%.
Podcasting can offer personal and professional benefits for researchers who want to dive in.
Computerized search of trial registry lists worst offenders.
Articles published open access are cited more often than articles that are not. End of Story.
5-year subscription access to around 1,850 journals on Elsevier’s ScienceDirect e-platform.
Exploring the research output on specific natural disasters.
Citizen science has the potential to make science and innovation more responsible, but it is not without controversy.
