Michael N. Hall, John T. Schiller, and Douglas R. Lowy, winners of this year’s Lasker awards for basic and clinical medical research. "Planned Parenthood" honored as Republicans target it for funding cuts.
Find out how Pure is giving the Research Council of Norway access to a global pool of experts for its wide variety of projects.
We’re celebrating post-publication reviewers this Peer Review Week - find out why, and learn tips on how to write a winning review
PubMed is found to contain predatory journals and publishers, likely reflecting a long-term and broader problem, which only adds to the confusion about what exactly PubMed represents at this point.
The Reproducible Document Stack will allow authors to submit their manuscripts in a format that includes embedded code blocks and computed outputs, and for publishers to preserve these assets in an enhanced version of the published online article.
Critics say the organization is trying to intimidate young scientists.
Then a lecherous professor made her life hell...
With Substance and Stencila, eLife is developing the technology required to publish computationally reproducible research articles online.
Government takes back reserves amassed by the Italian Institute of Technology. “This is the largest investment in competitive funds for basic research of the last 20 years,” says Elena Cattaneo.
Deep Argo network of floats expands with $4 million from Paul Allen
Regulations are deterring research that could lead to disease treatments, say scientists.
If you have a pressing need to read an academic paper that’s hiding behind a paywall, your quickest course of action may well be to use Sci-Hub.
We-Sci: a collaborative research network for computational and traditional biologists.
The White House and its lackeys in certain federal agencies are censoring scientific inquiry that could inform the public and government policy.
Like many others in the scholarly community, we were very disappointed to learn about the recent acquisition by Elsevier of bepress, the provider of the popular Digital Commons repository platform.
Scientific abstracts have become less readable over the past 130 years, in part because recent texts include more general scientific jargon than older texts.
A novel text-mining strategy that identifies articles producing biological data.
An introspective look at peer review, one we hope will be useful for future discussions on the topic.
Scientists have few direct incentives to replicate other researchers’ work, including precious little funding to do replications. Can that change?
Once every 4 years editors, publishers, and meta-researchers assemble in Chicago for the Peer Review Congress - an intense researchfest about "enhancing the quality and credibility of science".
Peer review infrastructure will arrive at Crossref in one month.
More than 26 percent of papers identified as systematic reviews or meta-analyses contained spin. This figure rose to up to 84 percent in papers reporting on nonrandomised trials.
With science needing to always be reviewed to be sure it is correct, using Post-publication peer review is useful for scientific accuracy.
Research institutions should explicitly seek job candidates who can be frankly self-critical of their work, says Jeffrey Flier.
